San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Mineral Matters: Build a Collection
Create your own rock and mineral collection. Site shows you how to clean minerals, get organized, and it gives suggestions for display and storage.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Mineral Matters: Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked rock and mineral questions are answered and illustrated.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Mineral Matters: Mine Games
Learn about minerals and have fun, too, playing Sedimentary, My Dear Watson, Knowledge Nuggets, Mining for Minerals (Interactive), and Minerals Matter. Downloadable features.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Shark School: Shark Faq's
Do sharks blink? How many rows of teeth do sharks have? Discover the answers to these questions and many more as you peruse this website.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Shark School: From Shore to the Deep Blue Sea
Small site provides information on different types of sharks: mako, thresher, hammerhead, horn, and others.
Read Works
Read Works: Meet the Ologist Chuck Spencer
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks reading from the American Museum of Natural Anthropology's website called OLogy provides an interview with the archaeologist named Chuck Spencer. A paired passage entitled "Up Close with...
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Volcanoes
Learn about the role volcanoes have played in shaping the Earth by engaging in interactive activities such as building a volcano or learning about the lava, water vapor, and gases that erupt from volcanoes.
Read Works
Read Works:what's the Big Idea About Archaeology?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks reading from the American Museum of Natural Anthropology's website called OLogy explains what archaeologists do. A paired passage entitled "Meet the Ologist-Chuck Spencer" is provided in...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Pictorial Museum of Sport and Adventure by F. Warne and Co.
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Pictorial Museum of Sport and Adventure by Fredrick Warne and Co., a record of deeds and daring escapes, accounts of various countries and their inhabitants, "the...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: A Sea of Questions About Mangroves
An engaging piece featuring questions that scientists ask when they are researching the seas. Click on the red asterisks and discover even more information!
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Lewis and Clark
This resource describes how Lewis and Clark described various animals two centuries ago.
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Memorial Museum: Hall of Geology and Paleontology Educator Guide [Pdf]
An educator guide to visiting the Texas Memorial Museum. Guide includes pre-visit activities, activities during your visit, post-visit activities, words to know, and websites for educators and learners.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Black Holes
This is a brief explanation of black holes. Click the starred words to see interactive flashcards with more information.
Read Works
Read Works: Up Close With a Zapotec Urn
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks reading from the American Museum of Natural Anthropology's website called OLogy provides a curator's interview with an Zapotec urn. Visual cues are provided to support the passage, and...
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Mineral Matters: Color
Don't be fooled! While color is one way to identify a mineral, it can often be misleading. Quartz is one example of a mineral that can change colors depending on its chemical make-up.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Mineral Matters: Luster
A brief introduction to identifying a mineral by its luster. Examples of terms used to describe luster, such as metallic, glassy, and dull are listed.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Meteorites
Brief article examines what meteorites are, the different types, and where they came from.
University of California
Ucmp: Glossary of Natural History
A glossary of useful terms, including "abyssal plain" and related terms.
University of Oxford (UK)
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: Insects
Flies, fleas, beetles and bees are all insects, and the study of insects is called entomology. Insects are probably the most important group of animals on earth - there may be as many as ten million different types of insect alive today!...
The British Museum
British Museum: Egyptian Life
Students learn about a day in the life of two ancient Egyptian families. They also explore paintings to learn more about the life of a wealthy nobleman in ancient Egypt. Afterwards, they can play Senet, a popular Egyptian game.
Scholastic
Scholastic History Mystery: National Parks 2: The General Sherman Tree
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery subject, the General...
Read Works
Read Works: Face to Fossil
[Free Registration/Login Required] This seven-page PDF passage entitled "Face to Fossil" features an interview with ProtoAndy, a fossil of Protoceratops. It is part of a Paired Text with two other texts (see links above passage):...
Read Works
Read Works: Field Trip
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Jeremy who got sick on the day he class was going on a field trip. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Wandering Alabama
This lesson is a fun fact gathering mission! Alabama is rich in history, museums, natural and manmade attractions, and some just plain wacky attractions. Students will work in collaborative groups to create a guide to sites in Alabama...