The Museum of Fine Arts Online Collections Database contains a wealth of paintings by John Singer Sargent. Click on each individual painting to view a larger image and more information about the painting.

Site compares and contrasts a farming village of 1845 to that of the present day. Students can make their own video online using clips, narrative, and music supplied by the museum.

This site has a wealth of information for teaching about the Holocaust, including support for teachers who are new to this and may be uncomfortable. There are lesson plans, online workshops, teaching materials, online exhibits,...

Discover how the mail moves across the country, learn how it was delivered before cars and other modes of transportation, and take a look at the history of the postage stamp. Games, lesson plans, curricular units and online murals are...

Online exhibition of presidential campaign ads, 1952-2008, organized by election year, theme, and political issue. Audio/video presentations of ads can be viewed alongside written transcripts, making Living Room Candidate particularly...

Students learn what insects are, how they live, how they find food, how they defend themselves, and how they affect humans. Organized into several articles accompanied by high-quality photos and video, this online exhibit provides...

Students can learn all about water pathogens in this online exhibit. They'll explore what kinds of micro-organisms infect water, how a water supply can get contaminated, how it is protected, and how officials investigate cases of...

An online lesson plan for getting your hands dirty! The student will learn all about making beads from clay and receive ideas on what to do with them after they are done.

This resource contains online publications back to the early 1980s as well as galleries and forums for the computer gaming community.

Visit the Smithsonian's Department of Botany, and search online from the specimen collection of nearly 800,000 plant specimen records. In addition, learn about research being conducted, activities and events hosted by the department,...

Smithsonian Jazz is home to several online exhibits, an interactive "Duke Ellington class," recordings, publications, oral histories, and similar resources.

Great online source for finding an abundance of information on Alutiiq history, culture, and heritage. Offers artifacts, latest news, an art gallery, exhibits, a language program, and so much more.

BlackInventors.com profiles Charles Drew, teacher, doctor, and the researcher who developed the blood plasma bank.

Use this site to learn about Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806 CE), an African American that created the first clock built in the United States and was known as our first great Black Inventor.

This site features links to more than 30 online resources such as Amish Quilt Gallery, Art in the Abstract, and Audio-Video Barn: Oral History of Illinois Agriculture.

As an online exhibit at the Tech Museum of Innovation, this site provides an overview of information as well as links and pictures of the Hubble Space Telescope.

As part of the online exhibit on Genetics from the Tech Museum of Innovation, this site deals with cloning and specifically cloning research and details on genetics.

The Sheldon Jackson Museum "s the oldest museum in Alaska and is located in the first concrete building in the state. Its primary interest to educators and students online is focus on an artifact of the Month and the archive of those...

The Sheldon Jackson Museum "s the oldest museum in Alaska and is located in the first concrete building in the state. Its primary interest to educators and students online is focus on an artifact of the Month and the archive of those...

The Artizon's online English-language home provides access to its collection, which is focussed primarily on the art of the impressionists, the post-impressionists, and twentieth-century Western masters. Most examples are accompanied by...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has an image of a sculpture titled "Mask" by Sargent Johnson. Famous for his sculptures based on African examples, Johnson explains his intent in sculpting these in a brief paragraph accompanying the...

This is the overview for the online exhibit on DNA. The overview, while providing all of the topics covered at a glance, includes links to Zoom into DNA, DNA is information, and How does DNA affect you?

The information provided at this site is part of a larger online exhibit centered on fossils and fossil research. The shark tooth is listed as one type of fossil and here it is pictured and described.

As an online exhibit on meteorites, this site answers the question, what is a meteorite? The two main topics covered include where meteorites come from and where meteorites are found.