Use this teacher's guide to plan how you'll integrate video clips, biosketch readers, and graphic organizers for Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum across your Grade 1-2 classroom curricula. From guided reading to a living wax museum,...

Musee Conti Wax Museum (New Orleans)

Through this project-based lesson, students will do research on and create an oral presentation based on the life of an influential Famous American. Students will utilize various means to glean information, from online databases, various...

Using Adriaen de Vries's stunning 17th-century sculpture Juggling Man as an example, this article examines the laborious process of creating a bronze sculpture with the direct lost-wax method.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Eddie Arning. Arning used color in most of his art and is also known for using Crayola crayons. The site, in addition to the...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Henry Brintnell Bounetheau is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his local acclaim, apparent in his miniature paintings and his work with...

A useful article outlining several key techniques used in African metalworking. Reading topics include smelting, forging, lost wax, direct cast, and more.

This article allows students to sample wax cylinders of French Folk songs.

The Exploratorium museum in San Francisco provides this exhibit companion site that features information about frogs including their habitats, characteristics, calls, and much more. Instructions are included for making a rainstick.