Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Identify Your Fingerprints
Become a forensic investigator, and follow these simple step-by-step instructions to take, examine, and identify your fingerprints.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make a Comeback Can
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to make a metal can come back when it is sent rolling away. The can uses both kinetic and potential energy to roll away and back.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make an Egg Bungee
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to prepare an egg for a 'bungee jump' using a plastic bag and elastics, and a yard stick to measure the distance it falls each time it is dropped. The activity investigates the Law of...
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make Recycled Paper
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to make recycled paper.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Three Colors of Light
An experiment where students combine solutions from red, green, and blue glow sticks to make different colors and to make white light.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Construct a Worm Farm
Clear instructions, with a photo of each step, explaining how to make a 'worm farm' in a large jar.
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Black Inventor Online Museum: William Purvis
Read about the African-American inventor, William Purvis, who improved the fountain pen. Included is a list of his other inventions.
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Black Inventor Online Museum: George Washington Carver
BlackInventor.com profiles George Washington Carver, inventor, teacher, and scientist whose discoveries greatly changed American agriculture.
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Rijksmuseum, Amersterdam
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is the largest museum of art and history in the Netherlands. Known for its collection of Dutch masters, the museum is home to twenty works by Rembrandt, including "The Night Watch." The museum's website gives...
National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)
The online arm of the National Gallery of Canada provides a variety of entryways into the museum's collections of Canadian art, aboriginal art, Inuit art, photographs, contemporary art, and American and European art. Use the museum's...
University of California
Ucmp: Web Geological Time Machine
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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Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia)
The homepage of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, chiefly known for its impressive collection of Asian art, provides a variety of ways to access its collections and special exhibitions: through interactive virtual exhibitions, show...
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Chicago Architecture Foundation
At the online home of the Chicago Architecture Foundation visitors can sample information, exhibitions, and activities designed to enhance awareness and appreciation of Chicago?s architectural legacy.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The online home the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lets visitors journey through the history of rock 'n' roll and discover the talents of the hall of fame inductees. Includes many stylish exhibitions and fashions to sample.
Library of Congress
Loc: Photographs of the Detroit Publishing Company: 1880 1920
An online collection of historical and archival photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company that show American life, industry, agriculture, and more from this period of rapid change.
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Whyville
Your students can become a citizen of Whyville, an on-line town. They can build a face, build a house, and build a business. There are tons of science experiments for them to try as well as art games at the Getty Museum. This is a great...
Smithsonian Institution
Freer | Sackler Galleries
Explore the Freer and Sackler Galleries by topics including but not limited to Arts of the Islamic Worlds, Chinese Art, and Contemporary Art. An overview of the collection, online exhibit features, and teacher resources are available.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The online home of the Smithsonian Institution. Explore art and design, history and culture, science and technology, and much more!
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Dr. Sun Yat Sen Museum
The online home of the Hong Kong-based Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum includes a short biographical note of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a few photographs, and descriptions of some of the museum's exhibits, which showcase some of Sun's personal items.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Alfred Rosenberg Diary
Alfred Rosenberg was responsible for looting artwork and books from German-occupied Europe. He kept detailed diaries that were recently tracked down and curated by the Holocaust Museum. Read the background on the mystery of these diaries...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Elie Wiesel's Remarks at the Dedication of the Holocaust Musuem
A learning module that begins with "Elie Wiesel's Remarks at the Dedication of the Holocaust Museum" by Elie Wiesel, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a...
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Illinois State Museum: At Home in the Heartland Online
Exhibit about family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present lets visitors experience the kinds of changes that an environment can undergo over several hundred years. Uses historical narratives, images of objects, timelines, maps, and...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
At the online home of the Art Institute of Chicago, browse the full scope and focus of the museum's collections of French impressionism, photography, architectural drawing, European decorative arts, American art, textiles, African art,...
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New Mexico Museum of Art: Prehistory: Paleo Indian Sites
Download a great map of New Mexico showing the Paleo-Indian sites from 10,000 B.C. to 5,500 BC. [pdf]