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Mac Cleay Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features many links to the museum. Find out about its history, exhibits, staff, school programs, etc. Click on "exhibitions", then "search the collection" to view photographs held at the MacCleay Museum.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Special Topics in Art History: Seeing America

For Students 9th - 10th
A course on looking at American history through art. Should be cross-checked against smarthistory.org.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: Bumble Bees

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the museum's larger exhibit on spiders and insect, this site examines various types of bumble bees along with their scientific name, common name, and body structure (coloring).
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Genetics

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from American Museum of Natural History focuses on Genetics. It defines genetics and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities on the topic.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Giant Squid Resurfaces

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Museum of Natural History?s giant squid exhibit has reopened, and this website explores some of the more recent discoveries on this very elusive yet very intriguing animal.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Saving Species

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn why fieldwork is an important component of any scientist's career, especially among those who are actively working to preserve the Earth's biodiversity. Three American Museum of Natural History biologists tell you about their...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Banner Tailed Kangaroo Rat

For Students 4th - 8th
The Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat confines its activities to small areas near the large earthen mounds that contain its complex burrow systems. Usually gentle and timid, this Kangaroo Rat will fight furiously to defend its territory from...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: California Deermouse

For Students 4th - 8th
California Deermice are nocturnal, with peak activity periods near dusk and dawn. Adults are fairly sedentary, spending much of their time nesting under fallen logs or debris, in trees, or in the dens made by other rodents. Learn more...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Canyon Deermouse

For Students 4th - 8th
Canyon Deermice inhabit arid shrublands and grasslands in the inhospitable "slickrock" deserts of the West. In the canyons where they live, the common denominator is bare rock, and they are remarkably agile at scampering on vertical or...
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Other

The Royal Tyrrell Muesum

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes exhibits of the museum, school programs, public programs, research and resources, etc.
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Royal Ontario Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Royal Ontario Museum is home to the art produced by diverse cultures from around the world, along with integrated facts regarding the natural history of those cultural regions. Highlights of the collections can be viewed from...
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University of Texas at Austin

Texas Memorial Museum: Hall of Geology and Paleontology Educator Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An educator guide to visiting the Texas Memorial Museum. Guide includes pre-visit activities, activities during your visit, post-visit activities, words to know, and websites for educators and students.
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University of Texas at Austin

Texas Memorial Museum: Hall of Geology and Paleontology Educator Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An educator guide to visiting the Texas Memorial Museum. Guide includes pre-visit activities, activities during your visit, post-visit activities, words to know, and websites for educators and students.
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Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Museo Galileo Institute and Museum of the History of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy showcases it's exhibits and artifacts for the public.
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Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in Salem, Massachusetts. America's oldest continuously operating museum, founded in 1799. Maritime arts and history; American decorative arts; early American architecture; Asian export art; Asian, Oceanic, African arts and...
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Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of the Herbert, you can sample its collections of visual art, archaeology, natural history, social history, and take an online tour of its galleries, studios, and learning spaces.
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Museums Victoria

Museum Victoria

For Students 9th - 10th
Museum Victoria is Australia's largest public museum organization and is responsible for the care of the state's collections and conducting research.
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Other

National Museum of South Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page of the National Museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Many links are provided regarding the museum.
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Bishop Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This museum site gives the viewer information on this museum as well as current, past, and upcoming exhibits.
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The Field Museum

The Field Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Field Museum's online presence offers a sneak preview of what you'll find when visiting, as well as access to online exhibits, images, collections and research, and interactive tools.
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Natural History Notebooks

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site from the Canadian Museum of Nature, a natural history museum, provides short information blurbs and fun facts on over 240 different common animals categorized by type (mammals, fish, reptiles, invertebrates, amphibians,...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs: Display or Defense?

For Students 9th - 10th
Are plates of armor, horns, exceptionally large heads, and bony plates examples of dinosaur display or defense? Visitors to this resource will learn what scientists have concluded about the purpose of these peculiar dinosaur features.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

For Students 9th - 10th
Visitors to this resource will discover the new things that scientists are learning about dinosaurs by paging through the information about this comprehensive exhibition.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs: Theropod Biomechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
How fast could a Tyrannosaurus rex really run? Visitors to this resource will see how scientists use theropod biomechanics to simulate the movement of these large dinosaurs.