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Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Revolutionary Money
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students examine paper money from the colonial and revolutionary periods to gather primary source information about the times.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Measurement Conversion
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: MathematicsLesson plan identifying common and uncommon measurements and building conversion tables. Includes links to related websites.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Blast from the Past (PreK-3)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States HistoryActivity analyzing historic artifacts to help gain an understanding of how the past has impacted our lives.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0My Favorite Things (PreK-1)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing ArtsActivity teaching students to identify "masterpieces" and mass-produced objects, explain why they value a given object, and dete...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Art to Zoo: The Museum Idea (1976)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.This issue of Art to Zoo offers ideas for activities before a classroom visit to a museum. Includes a student chart on museum ca...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0El Rio: Do-Your-Own Exhibition
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: GeographyStudents create a museum exhibition in this lesson, which addresses culture and environment in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin. T...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, Principles of DesignLesson explores transportation past and present, and addresses the use of inexhaustible power sources. Students design their own...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Agriculture in Your Life
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Science, Botany and Plant Science, Life SciencesLesson plan practicing word manipulation while categorizing sources of basic agricultural products. Includes printable activity ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Agriculture in Your Life
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Science, Botany and Plant Science, Life SciencesStudent activity to match everyday products with agricultural sources that can be found on the prairie. Extensions suggest that ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Just Passing Through
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Science, Botany and Plant Science, Life SciencesLesson plan investigating soils to observe how water moves through different types of soil, how soil properties affect flow rat...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Art to Zoo: Talking Houses—What They Can Tell You about the People They Shelter (1987)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.In this issue, students look closely at houses from other cultures and find intriguing clues about the people who built them. In...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Art to Zoo: What Makes Time Tick? (1991)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.The lesson plan shows in this issue shows how time has “changed” over the years, and asks students to consider what would happen...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Milestones of Flight Teaching Poster
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Technology, Human Space ExplorationTeaching poster introducing students to seven of the most historic aircraft and spacecraft in the National Air and Space Museum’...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Under the Spell of Spiders
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Science, Life SciencesLesson plans examine the important roles that spiders play in the environment. Includes activity in which students create an ima...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Ocean Planet: Interdisciplinary Marine Science Activities
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Students dip into the subjects of ocean geography, ocean creatures, and our uses and misuses of this largely unexplored world. ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the United States
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Students interpret historical maps and timelines in a study of America�s westward expansion in the 1840s.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Corridos for Social Justice
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: The Civil Rights Movement, History-Social Science, United States HistoryLesson plan has students examine the relationship between corridos lyrics and other primary sources. In the process, they will e...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Latin Rhythms and Cultural Heritage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Music, History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States HistoryTwo lesson plans encourage students to explore the concept of heritage and their own cultural heritage through music. Students l...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Character Composite Portrait
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryLesson plan serving as an introduction to Roberto Clemente. Use symbols to construct a character composite portrait. Aligned to ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Telling Our Own Stories Through Corridos
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Music, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsLesson plan using the lyrics and music of corridos along with the accompanying website to analyze written texts, visual images, ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
