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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Contrasts in Blue
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Ecology & EcosystemsLesson plan that demonstrates how these two ecosystems are unique yet related. Emphasis is on the formation of these environme...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Making of a Homemaker
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryOnline exhibition displaying images and text from domestic guidebooks of late-nineteenth-century America. These books gave advic...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching with Primary Sources
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryWebpage that presents five techniques for using primary-source documents in the classroom. Each technique is illustrated with vi...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIdealabs: Prehistoric Climate Change (and Why It Matters Today)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Science, Environmental IssuesOnline interactive in which students compare leaf fossils to learn about the climate millions of years ago. They also meet a Smi...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProfessional Opportunities and Training at the National Zoo
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceWebpage listing basic and advanced training programs that allow teachers to study with National Zoo scientists, to improve the q...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRebuild, Renew, Revitalize, Recreate New Orleans
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Principles of Design, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsLesson plan in which students research and evaluate the progress made in rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They de...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWetlands Curriculum Guide
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Life SciencesCovers the complexities of the wetland ecosystems. Addresses foodwebs, adaptations, and conservation issues. Includes backgroun...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVoices of Struggle: The Civil Rights Movement, 1945 to 1965
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, MusicWebpage honoring African-American history and music with a look at the profound cultural contribution of the Civil Rights Moveme...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNative Peoples of the Chesapeake Teaching Guide
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Native PeoplesTeaching guide provides information and primary resource materials related to key periods and events in the history of the Nativ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnline Coloring Book
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language ArtsActivity encourages children to color in postal-themed works of art.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlack Holes – Space Warps and Time Twists
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Human Space Exploration, PhysicsCompanion website to the Black Holes traveling exhibit. Includes exhibit walkthrough, educational resources, multimedia, black ...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 / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Minerals, Crystals, and Gems: Stepping-Stones to Inquiry
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Science, English-Language Arts, Earth & Space ScienceLesson plans introduce students to mineral science and the scientific process of observation, hypothesis, and conclusion.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComparing and Measuring
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Science, TechnologyHands-on physical science unit explores the skills and concepts behind comparison and measurement. Activities teach and reinforc...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian Source: Invention
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Technology, History-Social Science, United States History, ScienceSection of SmithsonianSource.org intended to supplement the materials you currently use for lessons on American inventions and i...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Teaching from Objects and Stories: Learning about the Bering Sea Eskimo People
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students act as detectives to unravel the mysteries of a traditional culture. The clues are everyday objects and creation storie...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWe Sing a Song: Global Sound for Children
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Music, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis webpage presents a sampling of children’s music on Smithsonian Global Sound. Includes artists such as Ella Jenkins, Suni Pa...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWe Can Fly!
Grades: PS/Pre-K, 1 to 3Subjects: No subjects selected.Reserve online for visits to the Learning Lab at Udvar-Hazy Center outside of Washington, D.C. In this program, students experie...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEducation, Design & Empowerment: Part One
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignIn part one of this two-part lesson, students examine how design can be a force in transforming lives. Students learn how educat...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: The Music in Poetry
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, MusicLessons introducing students to the rhythms of poetry. The focus in on two poetic forms that originated as forms of song: the ba...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0