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New Brunswick Museum: Reaching Into Our Past
In this unit, young scholars research 19th century New Brunswick history and compare it to the present. They produce newspaper articles and a multimedia presentation. There are suggestions for cross-curricular activities as well....
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Designing Museum Exhibits for "The Grapesof Wrath"
Integrating various creative formats with solid, researched fact, allows students to show what they have learned. The resulting "museum" can be shared with an audience in any of a number of ways. Includes handouts, rubric, and...
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New Brunswick Museum: City in Transition Project
In this lesson, students research Saint John history using the materials in the New Brunswick Museum's virtual exhibit.
9/11 Memorial & Museum
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Creating a Museum Exhibition [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...
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Yakima Valley Museum: Rodin: Maryhill Comes to Yakima
An educators guide to an exhibit featuring Auguste Rodin at the Yakima Valley Musem. Includes biographical information about Rodin, with background information on many of his sculptures, classroom activities, and discussion points.
US Navy
U.s. Navy Museum: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
This lesson plan discusses the American initiative to open Japan to western trade. It also features a biography of Commodore Perry, an exploration of the Japanese class system, and various learning activities.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Vancouver a Rt Gallery: Emily Carr: Bringing the Outside In
An outstanding set of two lessons that teach students about Emily Carr's work as well as how her paintings reflect her love of the forests of British Columbia.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery: Emily Carr: Documenting First Nation Cultures
Two sixty minute lessons are presented in this site which examines Emily Carr's paintings of the culture of the First Nations.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery: Emily Carr: Different Ways of Looking
Students are instructed in looking at landscape from multiple viewpoints using the works of Emily Carr.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Letters From Frontier: Primary Documents
George Catlin made extensive observations on the various native peoples that he encountered on his travels in the West. He recorded his experiences in letters and notes. These documents provide us with critical information on the culture...
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Evolution
Although this is an education kit intended to accompany an exhibition on evolution at this museum. it is useful for high school Biology classes for its excellent background information on the latest ideas about the theory of evolution,...
The Henry Ford
Early 20th Century Migration: Transportation: Past, Present and Future [Pdf]
A teacher's guide and unit plan that explores the migration of people from within and to the United States in the early 20th century up to the present day, many of them to work in the automobile factories in the northern US. Additional...
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Embracing the Impossible [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students explore primary resources to see what people who lived in the early age of flight felt about this innovation. They then compare that response to that towards an invention of today.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective
In this activity, students work in collaborative groups to conduct Internet research and create a museum exhibit that highlights the work of selected artists, musicians, and poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Project Living History [Pdf]
Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Students begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on Destiny...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Multicultural Math Fair: Navajo Burntwater Designs
Simple lesson designed to help young scholars learn the geometric concepts of translation, reflection, and symmetry by creating Navajo weaving patterns. Includes templates and instructions and is available in English and Spanish....