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Stone Tool Scavenger Hunt
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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Chinese, Japanese, & Korean Immigration to the U. S.
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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Ho Chi Minh and Freedom of Speech
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...
Curated OER
Celebrating our Heritage Buildings
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...
Curated OER
Breaking News English: Pensioner Attacks Famous Work of Art
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.
Other
New Bedford Whaling Museum: Online Exhibitions
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,...
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: An Exhibit on Communications
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.
Glenbow Museum
Glenbow Museum: Glenbow Museum of Calgary
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...
Other
The Museum of the World
Students can explore this iconic museum with exhibits dedicated to everything from Egyptian mummies to the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Eat, Drink, & Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance [Pdf]
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.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit
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.
Other
The Iraq Museum: Exhibitions and Publications
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...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: Creation's Journey
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...
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum: Infinite Island (Contemporary Works of the Caribbean)
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.
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Exhibition of the Enola Gay
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.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Museum of the Great Patriotic War
Photographic exhibition showcases primary source documents and artifacts from World War I on display in the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: African Native American Lives
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...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Spurlock Museum: Egyptian Mummification
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...
Other
Canadian War Museum: Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the 2nd World War
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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 1945
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...
Other
Logan Museum of Anthropology: Mogollon
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...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Legendary Coins and Currency
Archived images of coins from a beautiful online exhibition on the history of money.
Penn Museum
Penn Museum: Iraq's Ancient Past Ur's Royal Cemetery
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,...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: The First Ladies at the Smithsonian
Fashion to politics, this popular exhibit of the National Museum of American History illustrates the history of the First Ladies.