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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnd a Star to Steer Her By Field Trip Guide
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Science, Human Space ExplorationPre-field-trip teaching guide introducing students to the tools and techniques used to navigate by the stars. Provides classroo...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen Getting There Is More Than Half the Battle
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Principles of DesignLesson plan in which students explore transportation problems and design solutions around the globe. They work in small groups a...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProblem Solved! Design Solutions (4-8)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Principles of DesignIn this lesson, students look at problem solving in design. In an exercise, small groups create a safe method for transporting a...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProblem Solved! Design Solutions (9-12)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Principles of DesignIn this lesson, students look problem solving in design. In an exercise, small groups create a safe method for transporting an egg.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew York City Delights: The Taxi Cab (4-8)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: MathematicsActivity in which students learn about the role of taxis in New York City life by conducting collaborative research to learn abo...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew York City Delights: The Taxi Cab (9-12)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsActivity in which students learn about the role of taxis in New York City life by conducting collaborative research to learn abo...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPeople Movers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: TechnologyStudents investigate how transportation has evolved through the years and how it may continue to change in the future through te...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 / HyperLinkOddly Interesting
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This online exhibition highlights out of the ordinary items from Postal history. Includes things that carried, marked and went t...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFifteen Objects That Changed Postal History
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryOnline exhibition using 15 objects (and related objects) to trace major changes in postal history. These objects, with high-qua...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExplore the Universe
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Science, Human Space ExplorationOnline exhibition exploring how astronomical tools from Galileos telescope in the early 1600s to the latest high techobservatori...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Human Space ExplorationOnline exhibition celebrating the Wright brothers' invention of the Wright Flyer, the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, The Civil Rights MovementTeacher-selected primary sources are arranged by six topics: Civil Rights, Colonial America, Invention, Native American History,...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerica by Air
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Human Space ExplorationThis online exhibition looks at the many ways in which the flying experience has changed through the years, from the government’...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Horses to Horsepower: Studebaker Helped Move a Nation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryOnline exhibition tracing the history of the Studebaker company from 1852 to 1966, from wagon production to the automobile indus...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMoving the Mail
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryWebsite tracing advances in postal transportation technology. Includes sections on airmail planes, railroad mail cars, the Star ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBusiness Wings
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Human Space ExplorationOnline exhibition on the history of business aviation and the types of aircraft that have been used to accommodate business travel.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt of the Stamp
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsOnline exhibit showing how stamps are works of art that serve, in the words of W. B. Yeats, as the silent ambassadors on nationa...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMake the Dirt Fly!
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Science, History-Social Science, United States History, TechnologyOnline exhibition with historical photographs and information on the construction of the Panama Canal. Includes sections on reas...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentExplore the Space Hangar
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Science, History-Social Science, United States History, Human Space Exploration, TechnologyDownloadable PDF self-guided tour of James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Udvar-Hazy Center. Includes many educational activit...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0