American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Nature Versus Nurture O Logy Card
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find questions and answers, fast facts, and other bite-size pieces of information to help you understand the nature-versus-nurture debate.
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Arizona Museum of Natural History: The Hohokam
This informative site from the Arizona Museum of Natural History gives a good look at the Hohokam and their culture. Find a map that shows where these early Southwest people traded, see examples of their pottery and jewelry, and read...
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: St. Augustine on Line Exhibition
A fine exhibit presenting the history of St. Augustine from its founding by the Spanish to an interactive timeline of events and people dating from earliest times to the present. Highly informative!
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Crossroads of Continents
Very interesting Smithsonian web exhibition on the culture of the peoples surrounding the Bering Strait. Enter the museum to find lost cultures due to the Cold War. Fun museum to click around in!
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Human Characteristics: Tools & Foods
Learn about the history of how humans have used tools to meet their need for food, beginning with the ancient tools our ancestors used millions of years ago. Non-human primates also use some tools.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: The Iroquois of the Northeast
This site provides a brief look at the history of the Iroquois. The site has information about food, handwork, survival, and modern life.
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.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Vikings: Game of Hnefatafl
This history project features an old Norse game that is found in many Viking and Norse sites. It consists of a board and game pieces like chess and checkers. Students can make their own board and playing pieces and challenge each other...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Traveling the Silk Road: Take a Journey
Learn about some of the ancient Asian and Middle Eastern cities along the Silk Road between AD 600 and 1200. Highlights Xian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad, as well as those who traveled by sea.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: The Living Yamal
A Smithsonian site that tells of the history and culture of the Yamal people of Siberia.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Inca Investigation
Be an archaeologist and examine maps and ancient artifacts relating to the Inca empire.
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National Museum of Natural History: Indigenous Saami in Northern Coastal Sweden
The Saami people of Sweden are the focus of study for this Smithsonian research team. There are photos of Saami archaeological sites and descriptions of their cultural practices. Links for further research are provided.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Science: Dna and the Peopling of Siberia
Scientists from the University of Arizona are conducting Y chromosome research on native Siberians to try to determine whether there is a genetic affinity to North American native people. The rationale and direction of this research are...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Archaeology
A ten question quiz on the study of archaeology.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Needle to the North
Online exhibit explores Arctic expeditions of the twentieth-century via the photos and field notes of researchers who experienced the "alien landscape rife with cold, darkness, and isolation."
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: The Hall of Arctic People
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...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Digital Library: Congo Expedition: 1909 15
A rich-media website that traces a major expedition into the Belgian Congo (the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) at the dawn of the twentieth century. Includes maps, diary entries, specimens, and recordings as well as a...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Studies Center
Tour this Smithsonian site and learn about the cultures of the North Pacific Rim and arctic wildlife in this site. This site provides virtual tours, videos, and music!
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Looking Both Ways
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.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Race to the End of the Earth
Multimedia-rich exhibition documents the race, in 1911, to be the first to reach the South Pole. Two teams undertook the perilous journey, one British, led by Robert Scott, and one Norwegian, led by Roald Amundsen. With digital dioramas,...
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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: The Chumash People of California
A thorough look at the Chumash people of California. Read about their unique plank canoes, basketry, language, and cave paintings. Many pictures of artifacts and drawings accompany the information.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Lewis and Clark Mapping the West
Understand the importance of the mapping done by Lewis and Clark as you work through these learning exercises and learn mapmaking skills yourself.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: If Trash Could Talk
What does your trash say about you? Take a close look inside your trash can and think about the clues it offers about your life.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Trip Up Your Brain
Try this trippy experiment to fool your brain.