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Classroom Resources

Bring our collections and research into your classroom with these teacher’s manuals, pre-visit guides, and online activities.

All lesson plans address one or more of the historical thinking standards, the National History Content Standards, or the National Science Education Standards. A quick key to the History Content Standard Eras (grades 5-12) is provided.

You may request hard copies of selected pre-visit guides by using the Tour Request Form.

Resources

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Title Grade Range Resource Type
1776 Tour Guide
4-12 Teacher's Guide for Scheduled Tour
A Century of Invention Tour Guide
5-12 Teacher's Guide for Scheduled Tour
America On the Move Classroom Activity Guide
4–11 Activity Guide
America on the Move Games
4-12 Online Activity
America on the Move Tour: Business on the Move Self-Guide
4-8 Self-Guided Tour
America on the Move: Foods on the Move Self-Guide
K-4 Self-Guided Tour
America on the Move: People on the Move Self-Guide
4-8 Self-Guided Tour
Building a Sod House
K-8 Online Activity
Celia Cruz: Autobiography through Objects
3-4 Classroom Curriculum Guide
Celia Cruz: Design Your Performance
4-8 Classroom Curriculum Guide
Celia Cruz: Exile—Cuba and the United States
9-12 Classroom Curriculum Guide
Go Back in Time
4-12 Online Activity
Got Ramps?
1-12 Online Activity
Hands on Science Center: 20th Century Science and Beyond Tour Guide
5-12 Teacher's Guide for Scheduled Tour
Hands On Science Center: Everyday Science in the Late 19th Century Tour Guide
3-12 Teacher's Guide for Scheduled Tour
Hands on Science Center: Science All Around You Tour Guide
3-12 Teacher's Guide for Scheduled Tour
Hands On Science Center: Women in Science Tour Guide
3-12 Teacher's Guide for Scheduled Tour
Highlights of the Museum Tour Guide
K-12 Teacher's Guide for Scheduled Tour
History Explorer
K-12 Online Resource
HistoryWired
K-12 Online Resource
House Detective: Finding History in Your Home
4-12 Activity Guide
Hunt for History
5-8 Self-Guided Tour
Hunt for History
1-4 Self-Guided Tour
Lemelson Center, Invention at Play Educators Manual
4-8 Activity Guide
Lemelson Center, Invention at Play Family Activities Guide
K-4 Activity Guide
Lemelson Center, Invention at Play Web Activities
K-12 Online Activity
Lemelson Center, Make Your Own Light Bulb Activity
4-12 Online Activity
Lemelson Center, Whole Cloth Curriculum
6-12 Classroom Curriculum Guide
Lifecycle of the Poliovirus
1-12 Online Activity
Louis Armstrong Curriculum Guide
5-12 Classroom Curriculum Guide
Mirror Molecules
3-12 Online Activity
Preserving the Star-Spangled Banner: You Solve the Mystery
4-12 Online Activity
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Classroom Activity Guide
4-12 Classroom Curriculum Guide
Star-Spangled Banner Project Teacher's Manual
K-8 Classroom Curriculum Guide
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden Online Activities
3-12 Online Activity
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden Teacher's Manual
4-12 Classroom Curriculum Guide
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden, Tour Guide
4-12 Teacher's Guide for Scheduled Tour
The Object of History
9-12 Online Activity
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War Teacher’s Manual
5-12 Classroom Curriculum Guide
Tracking the Buffalo
4-12 Online Activity
West Point in the Making of America: Gouverneur Warren's Expedition
4-12 Online Activity
Who Am I? A History Mystery
6-9 Online Activity
You Be the Conservator
5-12 Online Activity
You Be the Historian
4-12 Online Activity
Louis Armstrong Education Kit (Grades 5-12)

Louis Armstrong

This engaging and stimulating kit is a rich resource for teachers and libraries, and lends itself to appreciating Louis Armstrong and his contribution to the development of jazz. Download the guide and listen to music clips online.

Related Links

 
Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
 
Smithsonian National Museum of American History