Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Reference Materials
Date Posted: 7/10/2012
In this post, students will learn about early recording history and hear recordings recovered from 1880s records. The recovered recordings are the Volta Laboratory Associates’ early experiments at recording and even reproducing li...
Grade Range: K-0
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Reference Materials
Date Posted: 7/12/2012
In this post, students will learn about jazz master Mary Lou Williams and her impact on jazz music, from boogie woogie and big band. Mary Lou Williams was a jazz artist who articulated the history, culture, and heritage of a people and ...
Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Reference Materials
Date Posted: 7/10/2012
In this post, students will learn about the oldest sound recordings preserved toda, found at the Museum. These experimental phonograms were made starting in 1881 by the Volta Laboratory Association, which consisted of telephone pioneer ...
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities, Primary Source, Reference Materials
Date Posted: 9/12/2009
This website provides online access to a collection of oral histories, photos, documents, and objects related to bracero history. Students can browse the archive, use social bookmarking tools to share resources, add th...
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Primary Source, Interactives & Media, Reference Materials
Date Posted: 9/12/2009
This website provides online access to this collection of oral histories, photos, documents, and objects related to bracero history. Students can browse the archive, use social bookmarking tools to share resources, add their...
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Duration: 50 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In these electronic field trips produced by the National Museum of American History, viewers are given a 20 minute tour by the curators of the exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education, followed by a 30 minute videotaped questi...
Grade Range: K-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 6/10/2008
In this interactive activity, students will attempt to build a sod house by making choices regarding the construction of their house. Too many wrong answers and the house will collapse! This engaging and lighthearted activity will help students un...
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Duration: 2 Minutes
Date Posted: 3/23/2012
Meet Steven Turner, curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, as he discusses the Smithsonian's scientific instrument collection. This video focuses on the plate developed by the 18th century scientist Chladni whose instrum...
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Interactives & Media
Duration: 1 Minutes
Date Posted: 5/15/2012
In this video, students will see both long-staple and short-staple cotton fibers processed in a roller gin and saw gin model similar to that patented by Eli Whitney, to better understand the impact of the cotton gin on cotton produ...
Grade Range: 5-8
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Primary Source
Duration: 28 Minutes
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this electronic field, curators from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's exhibition America on the Move take students behind-the-scenes to show how they develop individual stories for exhibitions and provide gu...