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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Magnificent Madagascar

For Students 3rd - 8th
Scientist Christopher Raxworthy, who studies the reptiles of Madagascar, explains the nature of his work.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Petra O Logy Card

For Students 9th - 10th
Flip over this interactive OLogy flash card to start learning about Petra, an ancient trading center located in modern-day Jordan.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Peru O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Turn over this interactive OLogy flash card to learn about Peru, its ancient people and their descendants. Find fast facts, questions and answers, and similar bite-size pieces of information about the country.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Nabataeans

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive OLogy card to learn about the Nabataeans, an ancient Middle Eastern civilization.
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Ancient Coral Reefs

For Students 9th - 10th
The Canadian Museum of Nature provides characteristics and ancient history of global coral reefs.
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Website
Australian Museum

Australian Museum: The Geological Time Scale

For Students 9th - 10th
What was Australia like during prehistoric times? Follow through history from 110 million years ago until the present and discover the different mammals, birds, and reptiles.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution: Newsdesk

For Students 9th - 10th
The Smithsonian Institution highlights recent news relating to museums, research centers, and other related programs.
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Handout
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum: North South East West: American Indians and the Natural World

For Students 9th - 10th
Web companion site to the Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It focuses on American Indians' relationships with the natural world and explores four different visions: the Tlingit...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles Willson Peale

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a self-portrait and biography for Charles Willson Peale, monumental portrait painter of George Washington and the man responsible for opening America?s first...
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Pictorial Museum of Sport and Adventure by F. Warne and Co.

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Pictorial Museum of Sport and Adventure by Fredrick Warne and Co., a record of deeds and daring escapes, accounts of various countries and their inhabitants, "the...
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Website
Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: On Maggots and Murders: Forensic Entomology [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Five-page article explains how forensic scientists, when investigating crimes, analyze maggots and blowflies to determine approximate times of death.
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Website
Other

South Australian Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The main page of the South Australian Museum describes the major exhibit currently on display. Links are provided to explore more of the museum.
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Website
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: North American Ethnographic Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Division of Anthropology was established at the AMNH in 1873, only four years after the founding of the museum. During its first 17 years, the department was concerned almost exclusively with the acquisition and display of artifacts....
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Website
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Asian Ethnography

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology make up the finest collection in the Western hemisphere. A large part of the collection was made by early anthropologists, who gathered extraordinarily detailed documentation. The collection is...
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Primary
Other

Dinosaur Depot Museum: The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
This booklet was written by Kenneth Carpenter from the Denver Museum of Natural History. It looks at the Jurassic dinosaurs that lived in Garden Park, Colorado. These included carnivorous dinosaurs, thunder lizards, Ornithopods, and...
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: History Explorer

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, developed by the National Museum of American History, provides standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history. An array of teacher lessons, activities, interactive media, and artifacts tag this...
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Powering the Past: Emergence of Electrical Utilities in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the history of electrical utilities in the United States from the time of Edison up to President Franklin Roosevelt.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Three Mile Island the Inside Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This Web site was created to provide more information about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant; about the course of the accident there; about the steps?extending over almost 15 years?through which the nature and extent of the...
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Website
Other

Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Follow a Fossil

For Students 9th - 10th
Students examine paleontology, the study of ancient life on Earth. Some topics explored are vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants.
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Article
Other

The Museum of Un Natural Mystery: The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
A nicely written history of the finding and the decoding of the Rosetta Stone.
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Graphic
Other

Canada Science and Technology Museum: Images of Canada; A Canadian History

For Students 9th - 10th
This immense gallery of photos of Canada is divided into topics and accompanying text. Includes agriculture, aviation, people, natural resources, structures, and scenic views! An invaluable site for educators, students, and anyone who...
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Handout
Burke Museum

Burke Museum: Tsunamis

For Students 9th - 10th
The information on tsunamis provided at this site is part of the Burke Museum's online exhibition on earthquakes and geology. Prevention is discussed, along with famous tsunamis in history.
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Graphic
Curated OER

A View on Cities: Washington: National Museum of Natural History

For Students 9th - 10th
National Museum of Natural History (Washington)
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Graphic
Curated OER

A View on Cities: Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History

For Students 9th - 10th
Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago)