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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Make Your Own Weather Station

For Students K - 1st
Students can plan and carry out investigations of local weather patterns by building their own weather stations to collect observations of various weather conditions: rainfall, wind direction, and air pressure.
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Handout
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems

For Students 9th - 10th
Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems offers an opportunity to explore a variety of ores, metals, gems, and other specimens displayed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. This resource offers an excellent collection of photos for...
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Handout
University of California

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Geology and Geologic Time

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the geologic relationships of rock layers, as well as much about geologic time and the history of Earth.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The History of Olympic Bids

For Students 9th - 10th
Whistler,B.C. ..host to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games! This exhibit follows the history of Whistler and recognizes how previous unsuccessful Olympic bids worked to create this present day world tourist locale.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Holocaust in Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of the Holocaust in Italy is generally well known, but to date there has been little systematic analysis of its spatial dimensions. The objective of this case study is to examine the Holocaust in Italy from a geographical...
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Lobster Plug Story in West Pubnico

For Students 9th - 10th
What in the world is a lobster plug? Explore the exhibits of the village of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia to learn about "the lobster plug capital of the world." Archival photographs, documents, and local stories are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Murder in Navan

For Students 9th - 10th
The murder case of a suspicious foreigner with an accent in Navan, Ontario is profiled. During World War Two, suspicions and fear ran high everywhere. The death of a local police officer and the killing of a stranger are examined. Was he...
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American Museum of Natural History

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

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Life in the City

For Students 3rd - 8th
Biodiversity can be found in many places, including city parks. At this OLogy learning game site, players use a magnifying glass to find organisms that live there and also learn something about how each organism relates to others nearby.
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University of California

Ucmp: Web Geological Time Machine

For Students 6th - 8th
The Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley offers an online geological time machine which allows you to catch a glimpse of ancient eras in earth's history. Click into an "Era" to learn about its stratigraphy, life forms, localities, and...
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Other

Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism: Historic Sites

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is part of a much larger tourism website for Newfoundland and Labrador. It links to historic buildings, scenic locales, and to many museums and galleries.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Buddhism

For Students 9th - 10th
Buddhism is one of the world's great religions, and has deeply influenced the character and evolution of Asian civilization over the past 2,500 years. It is based on the teachings of a historical figure, Siddhartha Gautama, who lived...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Preble's Shrew

For Students 4th - 8th
Very little is known about the natural history of Preble's Shrew, which has been found in widely separate localities in much of the western United States. Specimens have been collected at elevations of 1,280 m in Oregon and 2,750 m in...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Southern Plains Woodrat

For Students 4th - 8th
Southern Plains Woodrats are found in places where grasses, creosotebush, mesquite, and cactus grow. Local populations can reach high levels and then crash. Learn more about the Neotoma micropus, more commonly known as a Southern Plains...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Washington Ground Squirrel

For Students 4th - 8th
Since the massive conversion of land in the Columbia Basin to agriculture, the Washington Ground Squirrel has been in decline. During the 1980s, the number of localities where they were known to occur dropped from 179 to 35, all small in...
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EL Education

El Education: Operation Kidfit Recommendation Report

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students design a health and human body exhibit for a local museum by researching topics such as infectious diseases across history, anatomy, physiology, health, and nutrition. Students visited four museums across the country to...
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Other

Mandarin Daily News for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Mandarin Daily News is a well-established children's newspaper published in Taiwan for elementary and middle level students and their teachers and parents. The site includes world and local news stories, as well as news on topics of...