Grade Range: 9-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 1/7/2013
In this brief video, curators Harry Rubenstein and Larry Bird share key objects from the political history collection representing inaugurations and presidential campaigns dating back to the early 1800s. See how objects are stored and contin...
Grade Range: K-4
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities, Reference Materials
Duration: 175 Minutes
Date Posted: 11/30/2010
Railroads have moved people and cargo around America for more than 180 years. By using this OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring the history of trains in America. Focused on actively reading Jingle the Brass , a histori...
Grade Range: K-4
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 6/10/2008
In this activity, students will match clues with images of children who lived in the White House in order to learn about their lives as they lived in the presidential mansion. As part of the online exhibition, The American Presidency: A G...
Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Interactives & Media, Primary Source, Worksheets
Date Posted: 9/9/2008
This collection of learning resources was developed in conjunction with the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War Teacher's Manual. Included in this set of materials is "Who Am I? A History Mystery", an int...
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
Students learn anatomy by matching images of body parts to their location on Jerome, a papier-mâché anatomical model. It is part of the online exhibition entitled Artificial Anatomy: Papier-Mâché Anatomical Models
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities, Primary Source, Worksheets
Duration: 10 Minutes
Date Posted: 4/2/2012
Louisa Susannah Wells was a female colonist who was loyal to King George III, who was banished from America and returned to England after the War of Independence. Listen to a dramatic reading of her narrative, and then study the supporting p...
Grade Range: 9-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Primary Source
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this interactive game, students develop research skills and explore the Museum's collections as they create a movie using images from an online image database. This interactive is included in the online exhibition entitled America on the Mo...
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 10/18/2010
Get an introduction to some of today’s top researchers and the basics of biotechnology, biofuel, genetics, health, and agriculture. This video features interviews with four leading scientists in biotechnology who tell us what drew them to th...
Grade Range: K-0
Resource Type(s): Reference Materials, Interactives & Media
Duration: 5 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/9/2012
In this post, students will learn how photographs shaped the public’s knowledge and experience of the Civil War, and how people shaped photographs to leave a legacy of how they personally experienced and understood the ...
Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Reference Materials
Duration: 4 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/13/2012
In this post, students will learn how political history curators collect campaign memorabilia Democratic and Republican National Conventions. S ince the late 1980s, they have collected more than 150,000 objects. In this video...