A complete listing of all the standards-based educational resources that includes audio, video, and interactive resources. Many of these resources are designed to be used by the learner without help from a teacher or parent.
In this resource from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students can explore more than 800 artifacts from the online exhibition A More Perfect Union, including: archival photography, publications, original manuscripts, works of art...
June 10, 2008
How would you like to be a kid living in the White House? In this activity, students will match clues with images of children who lived in the White House in order to learn about their lives as they lived in the presidential mansion. As part of the Smithsonian's...
In this interactive from Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students learn anatomy by matching images of body parts to their location on Jerome, a papier-mâché anatomical model. It is part of the online exhibition entitled...
July 7, 2008
The National Museum of American History's online Artificial Anatomy collection contains over 30 papier-mâché anatomical models of humans, animals and plants. Students can explore a variety of human anatomical models....
In these electronic field trips produced by the National Museum of American History, viewers are given a 20 minute tour by the curators of the exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education, followed by a 30 minute videotaped question...
50 minutes
Building a sod house? It's not as easy as it seems! In this interactive activity, taken from the OurStory series produced by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will attempt to build a sod house by making choices regarding...
What would you say if you wrote a letter to the President? In this activity, students will analyze primary source letters that were written to Presidents by children and answer questions based on what they have read. As part of the Smithsonian's National...
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a day of celebration for the people of Latin America, particularly in Mexico and Central America, and more recently for Mexican Americans. This engaging online exhibition from the Smithsonian Latino Center...
October 22, 2008
Thomas Alva Edison changed our world! His genius gave us electric lights in our home and an entire system that produced and delivered electrical power. He was the first to record sound - and he also started the recording industry. Edison developed the...
September 8, 2008
Con este mapa interactivo del Museo Nacional de Historia Americana del Smithsonian, los estudiantes pueden investigar la isla y la cultura de Puerto Rico por los objetos e imágenes. Este recurso es parte del sitio titulado Una Visión de...
