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Learning About Museums
Grade Range: K-2
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Duration: 60
minutes
Date Posted:
11/19/2008
What do museums do? In this classroom activity, students will recognize the Smithsonian Institution and be able to explain what a museum does. This is accomplished through the use of discussion questions and activities in which they relate stories from prior museum visits or share ideas for a museum that they would like to create. This activity is included in the online exhibition entitled The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem.