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The exhibits at these museums rotate between visiting and permanent collections. Encouraging your younger students to visit from time to time will help them learn about the role … learn more

Virtual Library: Digital Citizenship

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Digital citizenship can be defined as engaging in appropriate and responsible behavior when using technology.  It encompasses digital literacy, ethics, etiquette, online safety, norms, rights, culture and more. … learn more

Generation Genius: K-8 Science Videos for Kids

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Although students often learn much about computers by disassembling them (as folks have experienced with every technological advance), museums exhibits and workshops reveal the inner workings of the … learn more

Disability History Museum

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This Disability History Museum hosts a Library of virtual artifacts, Education curricula, and Museum exhibits. These programs are designed to foster research and study about the historical experiences of … learn more

Benjamin Franklin Resources

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The Franklin Institute site is a creative pacesetter for student exhibits. If you want to help students design their own exhibits, check out this museum. Dive deeper into … learn more

The Exploratorium

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The Exploratorium’s (San Francisco) permanent collections emphasize physics and a unique version of psychobiology. Students serve as explainers for the exhibits and visitors can observe the making of … learn more

Association of Science and Technology Centers

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The Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) is a professional membership organization with a vision of increased understanding of—and engagement with—science and technology among all people and a mission … learn more

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has digitized a large portion of their collections, including exhibits. You will certainly find illustrative examples of many topics here.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

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Many museums and botanical gardens have an on-line section with educational material. Here is an example from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, which exhibits an extensive collection of plants … learn more

Children’s Museum in Canada

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The Canadian Museum of History (which includes the Canadian Children’s Museum) has a wide range of on-line exhibits that will engage students and can be the basis for … learn more

History AIP

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In addition to the exhibits, American Institute of Physics has archived a number of images, documents and oral history interviews.

Heisenberg

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Werner Heisenberg was one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. He is best known as a founder of quantum mechanics, the new physics of the atomic … learn more

AIP History of Science Web Exhibits

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American Institute of Physics (AIP) has online biographies of famous physicists, such as Newton, Einstein, and Bohr, and the history of key developments, such as the discovery of … learn more

Museo Galileo

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Part of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy, this site is a virtual copy exhibits dedicated to Galileo Galilei. You can view recreations of … learn more

Famous Trials

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Famous Trials looks at everything from the trial of Socrates (399 B.C.) to Susan B. Anthony (1873) to the Nuremberg Trials (1945-49)and the recent Zimmerman (“Trayvon Shooting”) Trial … learn more

California Academy of Sciences

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The California Academy of Sciences exhibits a four story rainforest with many micro-ecologies. Take-home kits widen the student base.

Osher Map Library

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The Smith Center for Cartographic Education The Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine features exhibits series of maps over times such as World II, the … learn more

Exploratorium Videos

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Located in San Francisco, California, the Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception. We value lifelong learning, curiosity, and inclusion. … learn more

Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light

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Museum of Science+Industry Chicago Explore rich holiday traditions from around the globe while creating your own traditions with loved ones in Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light.

Einstein – Image and Impact

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Einstein – Image and Impact is another AIP exhibit that includes Einstein’s thoughtful philosophy, and his rise above a turbulent life. The exhibit contains many pictures, cartoons, voice … learn more

A Quest for Full Citizenship

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The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship showcases the African American collections of the Library of Congress, with more than 240 items, including books, government documents, … learn more