Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: The Power of Children: Ryan White
This important online exhibit, "The Power of Children", discusses the lives of three children who faced almost unbearable challenges and become heroes of the 20th century. This page tells the story of Ryan White and his fight against AIDS.
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Cosmic Quest: Space Craft
Travel to other planets and even outer space, and explore various spacecraft. Get a synopsis about each of the featured planetary space probe missions.
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Cosmic Quest: Astronomers
Explore the achievements of notable astronomers beginning with ancient times through modern space explorers.
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Geo Mysteries: Broken Necklace Mystery
A fun fossil activity for younger students.
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Brooklyn Children's Museum: Pattern Wizardry!
Interactive exhibition answers all kinds of questions about patterns, symmetry, and tessellations. With games that reinforce concepts and loads of great illustrations. [Requires Shockwave.]
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Golden Cube Geo Mysteries
Learn how to test a material by using the five main properties of minerals to identify it at this interactive site.
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Children's Museum: Field Guide to the Universe: Astronomers
Read brief biographies of astronomers who are grouped by time period.
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Providence Children's Museum: A Maze Ing Challenges
Students will build a water drop maze using no-cost materials and see if they can make it to the end without their drop of water falling off or falling in.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A Museum of Wonders and What the Young Folks Saw by F. Opper
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book A Museum of Wonders and What the Young Folks Saw There by F. Opper (1884), a collection of illustrated children's poems.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Little Museum Keepers by Eliza Meteyard
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Little Museum Keepers by Eliza Meteyard [1870]. This children's novel is from Chambers's Library for Young People.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Pictorial Museum of Sport and Adventure by F. Warne and Co.
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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24 Hour Museum: Uk's National Virtual Museum
The 24 Hour Museum collects in one place museum exhibit sites and news from over 3700 museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK. Whether you are interested in history, science, literature or culture, you'll be able to find...
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International Committee for Egyptology: The Global Egyptian Museum
The Global Egyptian Museum is an ambitious, long-term project that intends to eventually gather digitized versions of artifacts from Egyptian history that are housed in museums around the world. This amounts to 850 collections and 69...
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Mint Museums: Hands on Crafts
Interactive resource about pottery, weaving, quilting, and basketry. Includes informative texts, videos of children dicussing and/or performing their craft, ability to "make" crafts online, and information about places to go to make...
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Museum of Jewish Heritage: Coming of Age During the Holocaust
Classroom-ready curriculum about the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of children and teens who lived through it. With powerful video testimonies from survivors, first-person narratives, personal photos, and timelines as well as varied...
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Socialization & Entertainment
The Metis liked to enjoy themselves. Traditional forms of Metis entertainment and socialization, among both children and adults, are outlined in this article. Teaching activities, discussion questions and a bibliography can be found at...
Curated OER
A View on Cities: Chicago: Fountain at Children's Museum
Fountain at Children's Museum (Chicago)
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Geologic Timeline
Here is an excellent example of a picture timeline. Follow the Eras of the Earth from Cenozoic all the way down to Precambrian with the use of fossils.
University of Wisconsin
Madison Children's Museum: Field Guide to Hmong Culture [Pdf]
This ethnographic guide covers almost every aspect of Hmong culture- history, daily life, traditional crafts and art, language, games, and religion. Each section wraps with "questions for study." The Hmong are a people indigenous to...
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Port Discovery Children's Museum: Stem at Home: Bug Bingo
Did you know that there are more than 1.5 million species of named bugs? You can find so many bugs right in your own back or front yard and you can have some fun of your own playing the two Bug Bingo games.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Great Explorations: All About the Oceans [Pdf]
Use this guide and your imagination to take a trip under the sea!
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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Who Should Own the Bones?
In this dinosaur WebQuest for Grades 6-8, two college students find fossils in a park and try to sell them, discovering it is against the law. Students will examine the positions of people on opposite sides of the argument over the...
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Geo Mysteries
This interactive site will engage students' curiosity as they learn about the various types of rocks and how they are formed. Also includes a fantastic timeline, showing the formation of rocks throughout history.