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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Under the Spell of. . . Spiders! (1994)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.The issue presents curriculum-spanning ways of teaching about spiders. Includes teacher background, lessons, and a bilingual stu...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Turning Dreams into Reality (1984-85)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.The issue takes students on a guided tour of the invention process, from dreams to the reality. It includes a “pull-out page” de...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Turn About’s Fair Play! Mirrors and How They Reflect (1990)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue including a series of activities in which students better understand light and symmetry by experimenting with mirro...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Trains and Railroads: From Wooden Track to Amtrak (1984)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.This issue suggests ways of introducing the subject of trains and railroads in a social studies unit on westward expansion. Incl...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Tomorrow’s Forecast: Oceans and Weather (1995)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Ecology & Ecosystems and 2 additional..Lesson plan (with printable maps and classroom/take-home activities) demonstrates how ocean currents influence weather patterns ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Survival Game after Columbus: Pigs, Weeds, and Other Players (1991)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.This issue examines the colonization of the Americas, focusing on diseases from Europe and the population growth of European dom...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Stuff of Stories (Using Museums to Inspire Student Writing, 1994)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.In this issue, students tap into the tales stored in museums. Teachers find ideas for using museums and other community resource...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Museum Idea (1978)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.This issue of Art to Zoo features a lesson plan in which each student creates a “Museum of Me” and the entire class creates a cu...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Internet and You
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Published in 1997, the issue was an attempt to dispel the mysteries that still surrounded the Internet. It includes a tutorial o...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Greatest Show on Earth (Starring Some of the World’s Smallest Animals, 1981)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceIssue includes insect facts, a brief lesson in insect adaptation, a bibliography of resources, and a pullout page, “Make Your Ow...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Constitution Lives! How It Protects Your Rights Today (1987)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue to aid educators in teaching the Constitution by bridging the gap between the document and the students’ own world.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Children Raised Kale: A Story of Growing…and Growing…from Seed to Maturity (1983)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue introducing students to gardening and plants. Activities center on the student’s knowledge of plant parts and produ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Stories from the Deep (1977)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.This magazine-format issue of Art to Zoo includes ideas for teaching about mollusks, a brief history of the Smithsonian, and tip...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Stamps as Storytellers—and the Story of Stamps (1985)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.This issue demonstrates the ways that stamps can add a new level of interest to curriculum-based lessons. The lesson plan focuse...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Spring at the Smithsonian (An Incipient Case of Puppetmania, 1979)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.The issue demonstrates that the ancient art of puppetry can be an effective means of integrating creative activities – writing, ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Spinning Yarns, Telling Tales about Textiles (1980)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.The issue explores the storytelling potential of textiles and the ways textiles can be used to enliven many areas of the curricu...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Small Worlds: Stamps as Storytellers (1980)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryLesson plan demonstrating how stamps can illustrate events and ideas within a single small picture—in this case, ideas and event...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother’s Dress and Other Clues to the Life and Times of Annie Steel (1981)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue in which students become detectives piecing together the life of a nineteenth century woman by examining primary so...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0