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Tween Tribune: John Glenn, the 1st American to Orbit Earth, Has Died at 95
On December 8, 2016, John Glenn passed away. Glenn was a famous American astronaut.
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Smithsonian Science Education Center: Showbiz Safari
Lights! Camera! Action! Our movie director needs your help! Help Walrus pick actors based on the traits that best fit the movie role. Which furry mammal will get the most wanted role in the blockbuster film "Paws"? Which water loving...
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Smithsonian Science Education Center: Expedition Insects [Pdf]
Giant deadly hornets, gorgeous fluttering butterflies and stealthy crawling stink bugs: readers cannot tear their eyes away from these fascinating creatures. They can discover these and more mesmerizing world insects in Expedition:...
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Smithsonian Science Education Center: That's So Meta(cognitive)!
A professional development video to help your students become a more effective science learner. [10:49]
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Smithsonian Science Education Center: Time: It's Like, So Deep
This video reviews over geologic time scale and methods to teach this appropriately in the classroom. [9:15]
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Smithsonian Science Education Center: Chemical Reactions in Action
This video is a professional development resource that explores student misconceptions about atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions. It also gives some pedagogical approaches for approaching these subjects. [10:12]
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Smithsonian Science Education Center:tis the Season for a Reason
A professional development video exploring students misconception over the reason for Earth's season. This video addresses a way to help students understand how Earth's orbit contributes to the seasons. [11:56]
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Smithsonian Education: Idea Lab: Myths in Words and Pictures
Interactive website in which students learn about myth and symbols in art and storytelling. Engaging and informative with images and informational text.
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National Postal Museum: Letter Writing in America
Article from the National Postal Museum on letter writing in America and how it became important as a tie between people exploring or settling in the new world and the sponsors or loved ones they left behind. With primary source material.
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Tet: Who Won?
A 2004 essay from Smithsonian Magazine on the debate over the surprise attacks of the Tet Offensive. The author, who was a reporter during the Vietnam War, explores the topic by asking who utlimately won?
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Nat. Air and Space Museum: Pioneers of Flight: Rockets and Dream of Spaceflight
Read about the history of rocketry and the first rocket inventors who laid the initial foundation for the development of the spaceflight industry.
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Tween Tribune: Giraffes Now Rarer Than Elephants
There are many animals at risk around the world. Scientists have determined that the giraffe population is shrinking.
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Tween Tribune: Ice Breaking Ship Gets Fired Up
One of the ships the United States has stationed in Antarctica is heading to warmer waters for intense cleaning.
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Tween Tribune: Does a Spider Need a Web to Catch Its Prey?
People are often fascinated by spiders creating their webs if they can catch a glimpse with the right lighting. Then there are the times people might get tangled in a web unintentionally. What do spiders do with those webs? Are they...
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National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Sandra Day O'connor
A brief biography of the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Smithsonian: Science: The Design of 'Through the Looking Glass'
Read about the inspiration of the chess board in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. It describes the chess moves that get Alice through her adventure and how they would work, or not, in a real chess game.
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Smithsonian: The Unmaking of the President
Essay on the challenges faced by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the final year of his presidency, after his announcement to not seek reelection.
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National Museum of the American Indian: Song for the Horse Nation
An exhibition about horses in Native American cultures takes a sweeping look at the ways in which Native peoples, past and present, regard horses and horsemanship. Learn how the horse transformed Native approaches to the hunt, warfare,...
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Smithsonian Tween Tribune: The True Story of "Hidden Figures"
"Hidden Figures" was a blockbuster movie and book about African-American women working for NASA beginning after WWII. These women not only made great strides for the space program but also advanced the civil rights movement. Learn more...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Georgia O'keeffe
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Georgia O'Keeffe in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ansel Adams
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Ansel Adams in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edward Mitchell Bannister
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides very brief biographical information on Edward Mitchell Bannister in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Hart Benton
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides brief biographical information on Thomas Hart Benton in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Caleb Bingham
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on George Caleb Bingham in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.