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American Museum of Natural History: Conservation Biologist Eleanor Sterling

For Students 3rd - 8th
Interview with conservationist Eleanor Sterling provides insights into her research interests, her career preparation, and advice for kids interested in doing field investigations in biology.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Meet the Geologist: Ed Mathez

For Students 6th - 8th
This video interview with geologist Ed Mathez provides insights into his research interests, his career preparation, and a range of geology-related topics.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Molecular Biologist: Rob De Salle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Interview with Molecular Biologist Rob DeSalle provides insights into his research interests, his career preparation, and a range of biology-related topics.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Paleontology: The Big Dig

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this site, you will learn all about Paleontology, the study of ancient life. It defines paleontology and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Marine Biology

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about marine biology, life in the ocean. It defines marine biology and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities on the topic.
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology Quiz: What Do You Know? Paleontology

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your knowledge of paleontology by taking a quick quiz.
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology: What Do You Know About Stars?

For Students 6th - 8th
Test your knowledge with this ten-question quiz on stars. Focusing on stars in the Milky Way galaxy, questions range from the life cycle of a star to the number of stars in our galaxy.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Horses

For Students 3rd - 8th
A quick way to learn horse vocabulary. Students take an interactive quiz, check their answers, and then read why each answer is correct or incorrect.
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American Museum of Natural History: Resources for Learning: Frames of Reference

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive physics simulation to determine how perception of motion changes with the frame of reference. The simulation introduces the principles of motion with respect to frame of reference.
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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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American Museum of Natural History: Neil De Grasse Tyson

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about Neil deGrasse Tyson, discussing his research and work in the field of astrophysics.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Archaeology: Clues From the Past

For Students 3rd - 5th
This resource is a place for learning all about archaeology - archaeological fieldwork, field journals, tools of the trade, and interesting archaeological sites and discoveries. Explore, ask questions, find information, and meet...
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American Museum of Natural History: North American Ethnographic Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Division of Anthropology was established at the AMNH in 1873, only four years after the founding of the museum. During its first 17 years, the department was concerned almost exclusively with the acquisition and display of artifacts....
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American Museum of Natural History: African Ethnography

For Students 9th - 10th
The Anthropology Division's African collection is extensive in terms of geographic coverage. It includes North Africa, West Africa, and Madagascar, although its greatest concentration of material is from central and southern Africa. The...
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American Museum of Natural History: Asian Ethnography

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology make up the finest collection in the Western hemisphere. A large part of the collection was made by early anthropologists, who gathered extraordinarily detailed documentation. The collection is...
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: If Rocks Could Talk

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks and see many examples of each type.
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American Museum of Natural History: General Theory of Relativity O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Einstein's general theory of relativity is the subject of this interactive OLogy card. Turn it over to find fast facts, questions and answers, and other bite-size pieces of information about the theory.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Fighting Dinos: New Discoveries

For Students 3rd - 8th
A virtual investigation surmising how two fighting dinosaurs died in the Gobi Desert.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Meet the Astronomer: Neil Tyson

For Students 3rd - 8th
Interview with astronomer Neil de Grasse Tyson provides insights into his research interests, his career preparation, and a range of astronomy-related topics.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: A Closer Look at Mars

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you look up at the sky on a clear night, you may see a red dot among the stars. This dot is Mars, named in ancient times after the Roman god of war. Although no one has ever visited this red planet, we know a lot about it. This site...
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Density of Salty Water

For Students 3rd - 5th
An experiment to test what happens when ocean water hits a freshwater estuary. Each step is demonstrated with photographs and the difference between salinity and density is explained.
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Astronomy: Are You Cut Out for Mars?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you have what it takes to go on a space mission to the Red Planet? Think you can handle it? Take this quiz to find out!
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Arctic Story Puzzles

For Students 3rd - 8th
Construct a story about the Inuit or the polar bear from a series of pictures that can be put together in a sequence.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Marine Biology

For Students 3rd - 5th
An introduction to key concepts about the ocean, its ecosystems, and zones. With interactive flash cards that open in new windows to help you learn more.