Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Louise Cox
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Louise Cox is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her portraits of children. Be sure to click on her name to see examples of her art.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Discovered
During the war, the Gestapo tried many means to locate Jews in hiding, even recruiting other Jews as informers. Sometimes hidden Jews were discovered accidentally during a raid.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Animal Detectives
Go on a scavenger hunt and collect clues about what animals might live nearby. Even if you don't catch a glimpse of the creature itself, you can still tell they've been nearby.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Build a Nest
Imagine you are a bird and use materials you find in your neighborhood to design and build a nest.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Soap Bubbles
Bubble solution is easy to make and provides endless fun. Experiment using different materials to make good bubble makers.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Color Mixing for the Senses
Learn all about color mixing and how layering primary colors can create a brand new color in this fun activity.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Ice Exploration
Provides fun ideas for exploring how to transform ice using shapes, light, and color.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Impressionist Bubbles
Go on a bubbly adventure and make some creative art.
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Holocaust Museum Houston: The Butterfly
A poem entitled "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" written by Pavel Friedman while living in the ghetto in Nazi Germany. Friedman was lather deported to Terezin Concentration Camp and died in Auschwitz. Links to teaching activities...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: School Yard Memories
Trace the history of Stevenston School from its pre-history construction in the late 1800s through its many upgrades until 1948 with the opening of Lord Byng School #3.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Boucher, Francois
This site provides a biography of French painter, noted for his pastoral and mythological scenes, Francois Boucher. Includes full color images of his work with captions.
Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: What's a Hardness Scale?
Find an illustrated explanation of the Mohs' hardness scale, which is used to compare the hardness of minerals. The scale explains the differences in hardness among a range of minerals, beginning with the softest (talc) and ending with...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Dracorex Hogwartsia
The Dracorex hogwartsia lived 66 million years ago. It was discovered in South Dakota. Due to its resemblance to a dragon, scientists named it Dracorex hogwartsia in author J. K. Rowling's honor. A brief description is given here.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: No Child's Play
Online version of "No Child's Play," an exhibit on display at Yad Vashem Museum. It highlights the toys, games, artwork, diaries, poems, and personal stories of children during the Holocaust.
Other
Kids' Peace Station: From Hiroshima
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had lasting and far reaching effects on all mankind! Learn about a young girl, Sadako, and her paper cranes as well as the Kids Peace Movement and building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum for...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Expressions
After the Holocaust, the writings, poetry, songs, and artistic expressions of Jews who experienced it firsthand were collected. These expressions were in some cases ordered by the Nazis, or done secretly in concentration camps,...
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Nature Painting
Choose your own adventure in this painting with nature experience. Choose your "canvas", pick your "paintbrushes", prepare your "paint", then "Paint!"
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Shadow Drawing
Have fun in the sun with shadow drawing.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Bubble Domes
Try making your own bubbles at home, helping with learning about math and science.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Make a Cardboard Train
Show off your artistic skills by creating your own cardboard train using recyclable materials in your home.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Egg to Go
Activity is based on Dr. Seuss's book, Horton Hatches the Egg. Decide on how you would keep your egg safe by devising an eggcellent carrier.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Create a Shaker Percussion Instrument
Percussion instruments produce sound through vibration, so if you hit, scrape, rub, or shake the instrument, it makes a sound. Making your very own shaker to accompany your song is easy.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Color Blending Top
Put a new spin on blending colors by creating your own spinning top. Mix colors through motion and make this optical illusion spring to life.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Skele Fun With Skeletons!
Did you know that you have a skeleton inside your hand? Wiggle your fingers, can you feel the bones? What if you could see them too? Use colorful paint to draw your bones on your hand. It takes a lot of tiny bones to help our amazing...