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Children's Museum of Denver

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the main page of the Denver Children's Museum.
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis: The Power of Children: Ryan White

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 4th - 8th
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

For Students 4th - 8th
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

For Students 3rd - 8th
A fun fossil activity for younger students.
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Brooklyn Children's Museum: Pattern Wizardry!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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

For Students 3rd - 8th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Read brief biographies of astronomers who are grouped by time period.
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Providence Children's Museum: A Maze Ing Challenges

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Museum of Wonders and What the Young Folks Saw by F. Opper

For Students 2nd - 4th
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.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Little Museum Keepers by Eliza Meteyard

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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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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24 Hour Museum: Uk's National Virtual Museum

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 3rd - 8th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Socialization & Entertainment

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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A View on Cities: Chicago: Fountain at Children's Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Fountain at Children's Museum (Chicago)
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Geologic Timeline

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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University of Wisconsin

Madison Children's Museum: Field Guide to Hmong Culture [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Staten Island Children's Museum

Staten Island Children's Museum: Great Explorations: All About the Oceans [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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?

For Students 6th - 8th
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

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.