By making time capsules, we can decide what message to send to the future about our own lives. If it were discovered years from now, what would the objects say about you and the time you lived in?

This teacher's guide focuses on the smaller animals that inhabit our world: insects and spiders. These fascinating creatures provide young children many hands-on opportunities to learn about the diversity of living things, how living...

This fascinating museum exhibit is on how the development of the steam engine has impacted the lives of many people over the last two hundred plus years.

Learn about three different marine ecosystems: coral reefs, the continental shelf, and the deep sea. Interactive game included, which will help players chart the interrelationships among organisms that live in each ecosystem.

Learn about the diversity of species on Earth by exploring a cladogram, a graph-like tree of life that illustrates relatedness among species. Includes instructions for reading cladograms and a pie chart that summarizes the percentages of...

The Nazi government had many "racial enemies" foremost being the Jews. In this exhibit, The United States Holocaust Museum takes a look at one of the other groups targeted for persecution, homosexuals. Read the fascinating and tragic...

Welcome to the birthplace of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart! See how the young Amelia lived. Her childhood treasures are shown in what has now become a museum. Photos and personal family stories are shared. The menu on the left opens to...

This section from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History's exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education gives the history of Jim Crow laws and how they affected not only the voting rights of...

This museum resource provides images, education resources, and a wonderful biography of artist Norman Rockwell.

This is the online version of the Smithsonian Institute's exhibit devoted to the people of the Siberian and North American Arctic. The mannequins around the walls represent the peoples of the Crossroads region, dressed in traditional...

Take a virtual tour of the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, and learn about the history of writing in ancient civilizations, the invention of paper, the spread to Europe, the impact it had, how paper is made, the evolution of...

600 Million Years is a permanent exhibition at the Melbourne Museum that examines how Australia evolved through the geological ages, and the dinosaurs and other prehistoric life that lived in the Victoria area in the distant past. The...

A collection of 231 historical photographs of Egypt from the 19th century to the early part of the 20th century. They depict both ancient and modern Egypt and are organized into different periods of Egypt's history going back to the Old...

Can you build a device that will deliver life-saving treatment to someone in a hazardous situation? During this lesson, students will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups and through the...

Explore the seven life processes that describe whether an animal is alive or not. Each characteristic is defined with examples and pictures. Also included is a living animal quiz to test how much you have learned.

Nurse Myra Grimsley (Bennett) was a nurse in Britain throughout World War I. She came to Newfoundland in 1921 as a volunteer and worked there for over 50 years. She was the only source of medical aid to people living along a...

The Claybank Brick Plant is in the Dirt Hills of south-central Saskatchewan and the only complete example of such a plant in North America. Its equipment and structures are intact and functional, preserved as they would have been in the...

This exhibit portrays the history and evolution of the town of Alberton, PEI. People who went on to gain renown in their fields are profiled. The paintings of a local artist, Hubert Rogers, show the beauty of the area and the...

Learn about the arrival of the French to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century. Read about the people and their lives.

Classroom-ready curriculum about the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of children and teens who lived through it. With powerful video testimonies from survivors, first-person narratives, personal photos, and timelines as well as varied...

A comprehensive look at the prehistoric Indians who lived in Tennesse, beginning with the PaleoIndian period through the Mississippian period of mound builders. Find pictures of artifacts, drawings, and a good discussion of each period.

The Smithsonian offers 32 of Catlin's Indian Gallery paintings online. Catlin visited 50 tribes living west of the Mississippi from 1830 to 1836.

This is an interactive exhibit from the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center featuring the Alaskan Native Alutiiqs. Learn much information about the people, their culture, and see where they live.

Review the lives and careers of the presidents (current through 2001), particularly the burdens that the office imposes, by examining documents and artifacts that clarify the powers of the office, the role of presidential campaigns, life...