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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Space Self Guide
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Human Space Exploration, ScienceSelf-guided tour of the National Air and Space Museum, highlighting six historic craft that carried humans in space. Includes c...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentLooking at Airplanes
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Human Space ExplorationSelf-guided tour of the National Air and Space Museum during which students will learn about the science of flight by observing ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNational Postal Museum – Guided Student Tours
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryGuided tours of the National Postal Museum in Washington D.C. Learn the history of transportation, discover postal system job...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInternational Space Station Learning Lab
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Human Space Exploration, ScienceScience demonstration at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center investigating the cutting-edge technology and innovations of the Intern...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
What’s Tops at the Udvar-Hazy Center?
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Human Space Exploration, ScienceWith this self-guided tour of the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center (Reston, VA), children are encouraged to vot...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAn Exploration of Automotive Design
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Principles of DesignStudents look at car design to explore the tension between aesthetics and functionality in design. For further exploration, stud...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnd a Star to Steer Her By Field Trip Guide
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Human Space Exploration, SciencePre-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: Human Space Exploration, ScienceOnline 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