Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

APRIL 17, 2024

A visit to the National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall, whether in-person or online, offers connections for learners of all ages with experts, new ideas, and ways to take action in preserving the environment

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Living Geography

JULY 21, 2024

A new exhibition opens at the Migration Museum in September: on the 12th. It explores the story of migration and how it has built modern Britain. It's called 'All our Stories'.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Students will analyze pieces from the online gallery provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and compare the works in terms of perspective, realism, subject matter, imagery, scale, and the use of space. Image credit: [link] These teachers have provided students with writing scaffolds and exemplars to help them achieve this goal.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 12, 2011

Holocaust Museum last year? holocaust Museum I found Mr. Feigl to be extremely articulate and he was able to recall events with clarity and detail. How did you feel about the Neo-Nazi that killed the black security guard at the U.S. Discussed the root of hate in certain people. Where are the original diaries today ? Donated to U.S.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

This marked the beginning of an 11-day trip to return the remains of a man whose skull had been taken almost 100 years ago and sold for display in a museum at my university. Even now, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History alone has amassed the remains of more than 33,000 individuals. While the U.S.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Below is the description from Google : Google Expeditions enable teachers to bring students on virtual trips to places like museums, underwater, and outer space. Teachers can bring lessons to life with Google Expeditions and take students on interactive, virtual field trips.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic closures prompted hundreds of museums, art galleries and zoos around the world to launch virtual field trips in the last year. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip. Subscribe today! They see that this is a real place,” said Larson.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages! They offer focused tours on a variety of topics including The life and writing of Ernest Hemingway.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Some of our topics include: The Underground Railroad at The Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, NY West Coast Immigration at the Angel Island Immigration Station on Angel Island, CA Contested Elections: 1800, 1824, 1874, 1960 & 2000 at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA The World Wars and the American State (..)

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Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 121

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces. Credit: The Rowan University Virtual Reality Lab.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Want to connect with fellow classroom teachers and museum educators? Sessions will be led by dynamic classroom teachers and museum educators. Looking for fresh ways to teach about the American Revolution? Looking for advice on how to navigate teaching inclusive history during this time of divisive rhetoric? Why should you attend RevEd?

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Museum Education Museum K-12 American History 130

TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

Curate cultural artifacts and ‘local memory’ Today, museums do the work of ‘curating,’ but that’s a crude way to preserve the cultural artifacts that matter. Used closed communities (Facebook Groups, for example) that, while not fully open, are still school-wide. There are ways. Why can’t schools do this?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are limited by our geographic location to the sights/museums within driving distance. The National Museums of Scotland has a “ Discover Ancient Egypt ” virtual experience that introduces students to Ancient Egypt through a combination of virtual tours and games. Field trips are time-consuming to organize and plan.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

For teachers without access to virtual reality equipment and software, there are virtual online tours like the ones offered by the Smithsonian National of Natural History Museum or the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) interactive destination tour for kids.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 19, 2019

There is a long list of icebreaker questions on the Museum Hack website that teachers can use to create their fun with Frayer icebreaker activities! Although some students know how to navigate Google Slides, others may not realize they can insert images and videos or hyperlink to resources.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

During a recent unit on creating a meaningful curriculum, I brought my students to visit a local museum to meet with the museum curriculum director and curator of collections to learn how they create programming for children. They evaluated the museum’s education program and worked together to design a new curriculum.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. EdSurge spent a morning with the teachers as they toured Smithsonian museums in small groups. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig. WASHINGTON — Curiosity and creativity were on display when dozens of top teachers from around the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

A child enjoys free time at the Museum School after-school program in Greenville, South Carolina. A former parent, with ties to a children’s museum in Greenville, suggested Edwards-Gandsy move south and use the museum space for in-person programming. “Enrollment was like half of what it was before,” she said.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Colonial archaeologies denigrate non-Western societies to the status of static yet living museums from which the nature of the past might be inferred. The unchanged and living museum like character has been used in legitimizing the colonial rule over its subjects.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Items in museums are often not dated either or from more recent times. It is difficult to find examples of early African iron. Almost all pictures found on the net relate to commercial items, either without a date or the 19th / 20th century.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. For example, the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown, Manhattan, NY, hosts a MOCAKIDS Storytime program on Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday at 4 p.m. The museum also has some of its collections online for students to browse at mocanyc.org.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This image, crafted by Tom Björklund and displayed at Museum Lolland-Falster, sparked intense debate on social media. The discovery of this information, however, has sparked controversy, as some struggle to reconcile the scientific evidence with contemporary understandings of race and identity. Read more

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Using the same fossil material, curators and paleoanthropologists commissioned this bust , “The Neanderthal Man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints,” for the American Museum of Natural History in 1915. Before the 20th century, only scattered bones of Neanderthals had been discovered.

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Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Or looking for a broad and exciting degree? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This cohort is open to educators representing schools, out-of-school-time programs, libraries, museums, and other organizations serving youth. Digital Promise is excited to announce the Maker Learning @ Home Cohort, a professional learning opportunity for educators committed to designing maker learning experiences at home.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Other times students went on field trips to museums where art educators explained paintings and sculptures. But it would likely take years of accumulated art knowledge – and dozens of museum visits and theater performances – to see reading comprehension improve. The arts programming itself ranged a lot.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In the third week of March, Tamiesha Parris got an email from another school — Guidepost Montessori at Museum Mile — announcing it was still open for the children of essential workers. Museum Mile was near their new home. “ Presley started at Museum Mile on Monday, March 30. Bright Horizons did not return a request for comment.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.” Perhaps there are some out there who might think public history is better left to local museums or genealogical societies alone.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2018

Children are capable of understanding science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts when they are less than a year old but these skills must be developed intentionally, according to a new report released by The Center for Childhood Creativity (CCC) at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Rood said parents and caregivers can help. “We

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

At a Smithsonian museum just off the National Mall, PreK-8th grade students engage in free field trip experiences that focus on storytelling through design, problem solving, and object-based learning

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 6, 2011

We entered the town, passing by Auschwitz I, which is now a museum, and also passing through Auschwitz III, the industrial complexes of Monowitz and Buna. This was an incredible chance meeting that demonstrates the importance of experiential learning and its possibility for rare opportunities that become profound teachable moments.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Andersen, Moesgaard Museum “We found no signs of cereal grinding on the stones,” says archaeobotanist Dr. Welmoed Out from Moesgaard Museum. A new study reveals that the stones were not used to grind cereal grains. Credit: Niels H.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Together, they applied for a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The SLIDE project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant Project RE-246368-OLS-20.

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