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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Beautiful Breeds: Dutch Warmblood

For Students 9th - 10th
Description and detailed illustrations of the Dutch Warmblood, an athletic show jumper.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Beautiful Breeds: Connemara

For Students 9th - 10th
Description and detailed illustrations of the Connemara, an Irish pony breed. Choose Connemara from the list on the right.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Beautiful Breeds: Paint

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed illustrations and description of the paint horse, an American stock horse. Choose Paint from the list on the right.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Einstein in Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated timeline tells the story of Einstein's life and accomplishments.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Make a Dna Model

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about DNA by building a model of its double-strand structure.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Nuclear Power O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
OLogy cards are like virtual baseball cards about all kinds of science topics. This card is about nuclear power. See if you can answer a few questions when you're done reading.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Northern Spotted Owl O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
OLogy cards are like virtual baseball cards about all kinds of science topics. This one is about the northern spotted owl and it contains information about the habitat, diet, and other ecological information.
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American Museum of Natural History: Wind Power O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
OLogy cards are like virtual baseball cards about all kinds of science topics. This card is about wind power. See if you can answer a few questions when you're done reading.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Taste a Smell Test

For Students 1st - 5th
Take the jellybean test to see how your sense of smell enhances taste.
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Make a Fossil

For Students K - 1st
This activity demonstrates the process of fossilization by making mold and cast fossils.
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Florida Museum of Natural History: Crocodilians: The American Alligator

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Florida offers a wonderful, fact filled webpage on the American Alligator.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Edible Earth

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take a look at the layers that make up our Earth: inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. Then have fun making a model of the Earth's interior that you can eat up.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Biodiversity

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find information about diversity among genes, species, and ecosystems that helps answer questions about the importance of biodiversity and how we can save species from extinction.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Genetics

For Students 6th - 8th
Find an overview of genetics--the science of genes--in a click-through series of short perspectives on the topic.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Mint Your Own Coin

For Students K - 1st
The information on coins tells us a lot about the national identity of the country where it was made. Learn about the language and symbolic content of coins by creating one of your own that communicates something about your personal...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Profile: Albert Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the life and work of Albert Einstein, including details from his childhood and what he said about life just before he died.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Moon Watch Flip Book

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hands-on activity shows you how to make a flip book of the moon using close observation skills and simple materials. Includes animation that lets you view the moon in action through its different phases, worksheets, and illustrated...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: American Museum of Natural History Resources for Learning

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a collection of scientific learning resources for educators, parents, kids, after-school coordinators, informal learning center staff, and anyone else interested in teaching or learning about science. The site provides...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Stargazing

For Students 3rd - 8th
Get started on the road to becoming an expert stargazer by following these recommendations for identifying stars, planets, and constellations. Includes an example of a journal that can be used as a record of your investigations.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Atomic Mobile

For Students 3rd - 8th
Illustrated instructions for how to make a model of an atom (an atom mobile).
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Hall of Mammals: Giant Anteater

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief illustrated overview of the giant anteater and an accompanying video demonstrate how this "food specialist lives up to his name".
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Profile: Georges Lemaitre

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the life and work of the father of the Big Bang theory, Georges Lemaitre. This article describes the origin of the cosmology theory and its growing acceptance among scientists. This is an excerpt from COSMIC HORIZONS:...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Pacu O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find questions and answers, fast facts, and other bite-size pieces of information to help you understand important characteristics of the South American pacu, a freshwater fish.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Brown Pelican O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find a definition, fast facts, questions and answers, and other bite-size pieces of information about the characteristics of the brown pelican.