Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Music Camp at Home
Enjoy doing these outdoor activities with your family such as making a Guiro or kazoo, or learning how to play the flute.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Arty Camp at Home
Outdoor art activities for families to do together.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Ladder 11
Learn and play like a firefighter at home.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Block Harbor
This guide shows how to bring block-building fun into your home.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Great Explorations: All About the Oceans [Pdf]
Use this guide and your imagination to take a trip under the sea!
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Staten Island Children's Museum: Great Explorations: All About the Tundra [Pdf]
Use this guide and your imagination to take a trip to the frozen Tundra.
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Staten Island Children's Museum: Sea of Boats
Use your imagination and this guide to discover about boats and learn some water science.
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Staten Island Children's Museum: Great Explorations: All About Rainforests [Pdf]
Use this guide and your imagination to take a trip to the rainforest.
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Staten Island Children's Museum: Bugs and Other Arthropods [Pdf]
Here are some fun family projects to do at home involving bugs.
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Staten Island Children's Museum: Green Thumbs at Home [Pdf]
Outdoor activities to enjoy with your family.
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Staten Island Children's Museum: Block Harbor [Pdf}
In this activity, you can use wooden and cushion blocks to build your own ship or place of port.
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Staten Island Children's Museum: Garden Terrace: All About Plants and Seeds [Pdf]
Use this guide and some everyday materials to learn about plants and start your own garden.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Quest for Family
After the end of World War II, Jewish survivors tried, with the help of Jewish organizations, to find the children they had left hidden in the care of others, or to find other family members. Many children had no memory of their...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Hardships
Describes the hardships children faced in trying to hide from the Nazis, whether openly with false identity papers, or in a hiding place. These included hiding their Jewish faith and practices, being victimized by unscrupulous 'rescuers'...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Who Should Own the Bones?
In this dinosaur WebQuest for Grades 6-8, two college students find fossils in a park and try to sell them, discovering it is against the law. Students will examine the positions of people on opposite sides of the argument over the...
Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Geo Mysteries
This interactive site will engage students' curiosity as they learn about the various types of rocks and how they are formed. Also includes a fantastic timeline, showing the formation of rocks throughout history.
Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Floating Rock Geo Mysteries
Did you know that there are some rocks that actually float? Follow this interactive investigation to find out which ones and why.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Family Art Guides
Even if you are miles away from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these four-page downloadable family guides to the museum's collections make wonderful tools for teaching interesting things about art to children. Full-page illustrations...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: What We Can Learn From Objects in Museums
Ways to take advantage of children's natural curiousity to ensure that your next museum visit is a lively and engaging learning experience. Provides excellent question prompts, along with advice for tailoring a visit to suit your child's...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Esphyr Slobodkina
This site provides biographical information on Esphyr Slobodkina, a Cubist artist whose sphere of influence included children's books. The online exhibit includes images and descriptions of several of her works.
Vroma Project
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art: Roman Portrait Sculptures
Special Exhibition of photographs of sculptures of the heads of Roman Emperors, Roman men, Roman women, and Roman children with commentary. From The Riley Collection of Roman Portraits at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
9/11 Memorial & Museum
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Children Grieve Too [Pdf]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to develop a robust set of 9/11 lessons for K-12 classrooms. Each activity...
9/11 Memorial & Museum
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Children Grieve Too. [Pdf]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to develop a robust set of 9/11 lessons for K-12 classrooms. Each lesson is...
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Children Historical Photos
A large collection of historical photos showing Metis children.