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Curated OER

Incredible Iceboats

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore the concept of floating objects (ice).  In this floating instructional activity, students conduct an investigation in which they hypothesize about the time that an ice boat will last floating in water. ...
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Curated OER

Liquid Crystal IR Detector

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers experiment with one method of detecting infrared radiation. They simulate the detection of infrared radiation using a liquid crystal sheet.
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Curated OER

The White Rose

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore passive resistance.
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Curated OER

Animal Life Histories Derived From Morphology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the mechanisms of natural selection by deducing information from the physical appearance of the animal.
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Curated OER

An Introduction:

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore historical research with primary sources about Hydropower.
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: 2005 Exhibitions: Basquiat

For Students 9th - 10th
"Basquiat" was a 2005 exhibition of over 100 works by the American master painter Jean Michel Basquiat at the Brooklyn Museum. This page shows selected works from the exhibit and includes an interactive segment on the exhibit.
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Other

New Bedford Whaling Museum: Online Exhibitions

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Bedford Whaling Museum provides a well-done, comprehensive site that includes all aspects of American whaling. This site is a pleasure to amble through if you love the lore and legend of late eighteenth-century sailing ships,...
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Pearls Exhibition

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlights from a past Field Museum exhibition on pearls. You'll learn how pearls are made and how scientists and pearl farmers are working to conserve them.
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Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum: An Exhibit on Communications

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the development of telecommunications from the earliest times to the most advanced technologies! Useful research tool highlighting the telegraph, telegram, telephone todigital networks and computing in Canada.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: The 50th Anniversary

For Students 9th - 10th
Guggenheim Museum exhibit The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum and features images of paintings aquired in the years 1952-1960 along with biographical and...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: September 11, 2001: Collecting and Exhibiting

For Students 9th - 10th
Talks about the Church Street Station Post Office in New York City that was very near Ground Zero, and how the postal service continued to work post 9/11 in that area.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery: Unity of Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Emily Carr, Katharine Maltwood and Myfanwy Pavelic contributed significantly to the West Coast Canadian art scene. This virtual exhibition by the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery at the University of Victoria gives great tribute to the...
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Other

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At the online home of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art find a variety of ways to view and experience the museum's collections and exhibitions, which focus on visual art from 1945 to the present. Interactive content includes podcasts,...
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Burke Museum

The Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The museum features online quizzes and exhibits like Kennewick Man, "Mammals of Washington," Amphibians and Reptiles of Washington," archeology, and vertebrate paleontology.
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University of Oxford (UK)

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of this natural history museum, learn about zoology, geology and entomology. Explore online exhibits, along with educational materials for students and teachers.
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Louvre Museum

Louvre Museum: Imaginary Exhibition: Louis La Caze Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Site that describes and depicts paintings from the renown Louis La Caze Collection at the Louvre Museum.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: Birds Exhibit

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit from the Natural History Museum, this site is home to six individual topics related to birds including four videos on different aspects and types of birds.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Milstein Hall of Ocean Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Tour the museum's famed exhibition hall dedicated to ocean life at this online recreation. Find videos, maps, species specimens, and images that let you experience many of the museum's resources on ocean life right from your desktop.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Roberto Clemente, Baseball Legend

For Students 9th - 10th
Great reference tool from the National Postal Museum online exhibits for learning about the life of legendary baseball star, Roberto Clemente, who was honored twice with a postage stamp in his memory. Includes images of memorabilia and...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Darwin

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is an online companion of museum-mounted exhibition about Darwin and his revolutionary theory. It covers Darwin's upbringing, influences, and discoveries employing a rich mix of media: text, photographs, videos, sound...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

For Students 9th - 10th
Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Tools of Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of the National Air and Space Museum's online exhibition about Exploring Planets, this describes and gives visuals of telescopes, probes and fly-by aircrafts, orbiters, and landers as current methods for earth and airborne...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Besides viewing the collections and exhibits at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can view the "Timeline of Art History" and other useful resources at this site.
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Other

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The home page for the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This "Is the only museum in the United States creating and exhibiting new work in fabric and experimental materials in collaboration with emerging and...

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