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Poster Exhibition
Earth from Space
Twenty full-color posters present images captured by satellites circling the globe, recording conditions and events that are nearly impossible to document on the planet’s surface. Accompanying text explains how satellite imagery is gathered and used to explore Earth. Offered by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
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Millions of Online Resources
Smithsonian Learning Lab
Create a free account to access more than 3 million digital images, videos, texts, and more. Discover and use these with thousands of carefully curated, easily accessible, customizable, and shareable learning collections. Free for educators and students to use, school-safe, and easy to integrate with your existing resources.
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Workshop
Chinese Art as Symbols of Power
Enjoy guided tours and gallery activities at this free workshop on Saturday, March 23, at the Freer|Sackler. Preregistration is required.
Register online.
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Summer Teacher Institute
Learning to Look with the National Portrait Gallery
Learn how to use portraiture to build visual literacy skills. The gallery presents two summer institutes, June 24-28 and July 8-12. Teachers of K–12 may apply as individuals or in groups.
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Workshop
National Museum of the American Indian
The exhibition Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 is the starting point for an exploration of historical empathy, interrogating sources, and respectful debate. This Smithsonian American Art Museum workshop features two guest speakers and a catered lunch..
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Summer Institute
Teaching the Humanities through Art
Learn how visual art can be a means to critical thinking and interdisciplinary connection at one of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s weeklong summer teacher institutes. Apply by March 31.
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Workshop
Learning Through Objects
Join the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center on March 14 and 15 for a hands-on seminar on how to use community spaces in early-childhood learning.
Register online.
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Workshop
Full STEAM Ahead
Integrate the arts into STEM to engage young children in cross-curricular experiences. The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center host this two-hour evening workshop on April 18.
Register online.
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Workshop
Play in the Community
Join the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center on May 6 and 7 for a fast-paced, interactive seminar on the use of play in early-childhood learning—in the classroom, museum, and community.
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Workshop
Dr. Charles Drew: Giving Life Through Blood Research
This half-day summer workshop includes lessons on the story of Dr. Drew, a physician and researcher of the early twentieth century, as well as activities on density, diffusion, and the circulatory system, and a gallery exploration at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. For teachers of grades 4-6.
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Workshop
Let’s Talk! Teaching About Race in the Classroom
This weeklong workshop from the National Museum of African American History and Culture offers strategies for connecting with a school’s community through the challenging topic of identity, especially race. Open to pre-K–12 educators. Held July 8–12.
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Workshop
Historical Memory: Myths and Monuments of the Civil War
This weeklong workshop from the National Museum of African American History and Culture takes an in-depth look at how the Civil War is remembered in public history and is made visible through works of art such as public monuments. Designed for middle and high school educators. Held July 22–26.
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Workshop
STEM and the African American Experience
This weeklong workshop from the National Museum of African American History and Culture provides teachers with new content and strategies for STEM lessons using African American history as the focal point. Designed for teachers of grades 3–5. Held July 29– August 2.
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Free Distance Learning Lessons
Artful Connections
Bring American art to your students with ten free interactive videoconferences from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. For third grade through adult.
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Free Distance Learning Programs
The Arts Can Take Us Places!
Put the arts into STEM and create some STEAM! Invite the curator for education at the National Museum of African Art into your classroom and explore many themes that support close observation and student imagination.
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Performances for Children
Smithsonian Discovery Theater
Winter, spring, and summer shows are on sale now. Individual and group tickets are available for shows in Smithsonian’s Ripley Center. Select live educational performances are on tour and can come to your school.
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Freer|Sackler Reserved Tours for Schools
Exploring the Arts of Imperial China
Students in grades 3-12 can look into the lives of imperial women of the Qing dynasty in the special exhibition Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912. Limited availability. .
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Student Workshop
The Young Historians Institute
Students in grades 10–12 can learn, question, and create history in a weeklong intensive reading and writing program at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Held June 24–28, from 8:30 am to 4 pm. Student applications close March 22.
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Online Workshop
NHD at NMAAHC Digital E-Review Clinic
The National Museum of African American History and Culture offers the clinic to students participating in National History Day. Open March 6–20, or until all review slots are filled. Students can submit a project on any historical subject.
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Summer Program
NHD National Contest Week
The National Museum of African American History and Culture celebrates the 2018-19 National History Day contest year during the National Contest Week (June 9–12). It includes special activities and a student documentary showcase. Held Wednesday, June 12.
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Student Workshop
The Power of the Written Word: Teen Writing and Literature Institute
In this weeklong workshop from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a selected work is the basis for writing exercises to refine students’ skills. The 2019 summer book is The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas.
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Lesson Plans
Exploring Korean Art at the Freer|Sackler
Teachers across disciplines and grade levels can copy and adapt a new Learning Lab collection from the Freer|Sackler. Discover twenty lesson plans designed by pre-K through university educators.
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Lessons and Activities
Teaching the African American Experience through Smithsonian Learning Lab
Explore new resources for teaching the African American experience across multiple subject areas: history, visual arts, culture, and STEM.
See the page.
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