Smithsonian Education Resources
Each year, the Smithsonian honors Black History Month with a calendar full of activities. Visit the Black History Month website each February for more information on the events in the Washington, DC area. Black History Month Calendar |
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The Smithsonian’s newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), was established in 2003 and is scheduled to open on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 2015. The educator’s page of the NMAAHC website includes lessons in art and science as well as history and culture. Each lesson lists curriculum connections. NMAAHC Education |
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If you’re interested in that broadest of all musical categories, “world music,” you won’t find a better site than Smithsonian Global Sound, which contains 40,000 tracks from the Smithsonian Folkways archives. Albums and individual songs are available for purchase and download. For Black History Month, Global Sound offers free videos, music, and spoken-word recordings. Lesson plans and student activities are included. Heritage Month on Smithsonian Global Sound |
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American History and Culture features a wealth of information, including a list of links, exhibitions, and recommended readings. Encyclopedia Smithsonian |
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This free visitors guide and map lists exhibitions and works related to African American history and culture across the Smithsonian. Also included is a list of Smithsonian activities and programs designed especially for children. Guide |
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Visit the African American Highlights section of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. Explore a selection of resources relating to African Americans from archival, library and specialized research collections across the Smithsonian. African American Highlights from SIRIS |
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The Guide to the Papers of African American Artists explores the collections of the Archives of American Art that focus on the accomplishments, struggles, and contributions of African American artists. Among the collections in the Archives are the personal papers of more than seventy African American painters, sculptors, and printmakers from the late 19th century to the present, as well as more than seventy tape-recorded interviews of artists. The Guide to the Papers of African American Artists |
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The Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture offers a list of books and videos on African American inventors. Reading List |
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This Smithsonian American Art Museum guide features lessons based on reproductions of William H. Johnson paintings. It includes a biography, a chronology, and other background material on the artist's life in the South, in Harlem, and abroad. Guide |
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This National Air and Space Museum online exhibition includes classroom activities for grades 5-12. The exhibition site itself provides background for the lessons. Classroom Activities |
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The Anacostia Museum's Office of Education offers reading lists for ages 3-10 and 10-up. Reading Lists |
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The Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture offers a list of works by such figures as W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Reading Lists |
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The Education Programs page of the museum's website includes curriculum resources and a calendar of tours and special programs. Education Programs |
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