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Curated OER

Stone Tool Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use the internet to research the various types of stone tools used by natives. Using this information, they create a chart describing each tool and its usage. In groups, they share their charts with others and answer...
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Curated OER

Chinese, Japanese, & Korean Immigration to the U. S.

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study immigration of people from Southeast Asian countries to the United States. Pupils create maps and geographically illustrate the immigration. Using the internet, students research an assigned topic. They write an essay...
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Curated OER

Ho Chi Minh and Freedom of Speech

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore freedom of speech. Individually, they complete a K-W-L chart. Students participate in a "Stand If You Can" activity where they make statements regarding the freedom of speech. Learners stand if they agree with the...
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Curated OER

Celebrating our Heritage Buildings

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders create a scavenger hunt with clues related to a building they have researched. Working in small groups, they use the internet and traditional resources to find information pertaining to a historical building. Students use...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Pensioner Attacks Famous Work of Art

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Pensioner Attacks Famous Work of Art," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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New Bedford Whaling Museum: Online Exhibitions

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Bedford Whaling Museum provides a well-done, comprehensive site that includes all aspects of American whaling. This site is a pleasure to amble through if you love the lore and legend of late eighteenth-century sailing ships,...
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Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum: An Exhibit on Communications

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the development of telecommunications from the earliest times to the most advanced technologies! Useful research tool highlighting the telegraph, telegram, telephone todigital networks and computing in Canada.
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Glenbow Museum

Glenbow Museum: Glenbow Museum of Calgary

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official web site for Calgary's Glenbow Museum. Collections, exhibits, and school programs are found at the museum as well as on-line. Though this is a commercial site, the wealth of historical information presented makes it...
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The Museum of the World

For Students 3rd - 6th
Students can explore this iconic museum with exhibits dedicated to everything from Egyptian mummies to the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.
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Handout
J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Eat, Drink, & Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A booklet that accompanied a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in manuscript art from those times.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit

For Students 9th - 10th
Vietnamese life and culture captured in a museum-mounted exhibition (2003-04) that takes journeys through time, space, the seasons, and rites of life as themes. Learn about the history, culture, traditions, and everyday life of Vietnam.
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Other

The Iraq Museum: Exhibitions and Publications

For Students 9th - 10th
While this is a description of the exhibits in the Iraq Museum, it also provides a good overview of the history of Iraq over thousands of years. Of particular interest is the 'About the Museum' section where you can read about the...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Creation's Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual tour of two exhibits that were created for the National Museum of the American Indian but students from four American Indian schools. The exhibits display a wide variety of American Indian artifacts with descriptions of each...
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Infinite Island (Contemporary Works of the Caribbean)

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Brooklyn Museum, this is the exhibit page for "Infinite Island (Contemporary Works of the Caribbean)", featuring selected images from the exhibit and an accompanying artist statement from the corresponding artist.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exhibition of the Enola Gay

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you will find a video and photo gallery of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb. This is the online version of the former exhibition of the plane.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Museum of the Great Patriotic War

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibition showcases primary source documents and artifacts from World War I on display in the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
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Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: African Native American Lives

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating exhibition on the history of Americans of both African American and Native American ancestry. The exhibit looks at policies and laws that affected them, how they have formed and managed communities, their resistance...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Spurlock Museum: Egyptian Mummification

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual exhibition on Egyptian mummification. Covers the history through different periods of Egypt's history, the rituals, artifacts found with mummies, sources of information about mummification, the materials that were used, and the...
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Other

Canadian War Museum: Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the 2nd World War

For Students 9th - 10th
Canada's role in the Second World War is demonstrated in this exhibit through articles which appeared in newspapers throughout the country. Included are sections on Canada and the War, operations, and the Holocaust. It provides a...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Logan Museum of Anthropology: Mogollon

For Students 9th - 10th
The Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College has an exhibit of Mogollon pottery from several periods. Read a brief description of the Mogollon culture, find a map of the area inhabited by the Mogollon, and look at the examples of...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Legendary Coins and Currency

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived images of coins from a beautiful online exhibition on the history of money.
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Penn Museum

Penn Museum: Iraq's Ancient Past Ur's Royal Cemetery

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating exhibition on early Mesopotamia which looks at the city of Ur located in Sumer, which is now part of Iraq. It discusses the history of Ur and its excavation. Most of the exhibition talks about the Royal Cemetery of Ur,...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: The First Ladies at the Smithsonian

For Students 9th - 10th
Fashion to politics, this popular exhibit of the National Museum of American History illustrates the history of the First Ladies.

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