| Online issue introducing the many different facets of exploration. Includes discussion of modern-day exploration in space. |
| Website about the history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Includes an extensive retelling of the expedition, Lewis and Clark maps and other primary resources, related activities and lesson plans, and biographies of historic figures. |
| Lesson in which students create a public service announcement using the theme of colliding cultures in North America. |
| Interdisciplinary extension to lessons describing the Lewis and Clark Expedition to follow a viewing of the Smithsonian primary resources. Provides an example of ecological interdependence between plants and animals. |
| Online exhibition that brings together selected travel accounts by Americans who visited Egypt in the nineteenth century. Many of the volumes, or their authors, have special associations with the Smithsonian. Additionally, a sampling of guidebooks and handbooks to Egyptian antiquities are presented. Includes traveler accounts, timeline of explorations, and guidebook samples. |
| Grade(s): General audience |
| Online exhibit recording journeys to new places, mental explorations, and new creative thoughts. Background information and items from the Smithsonian collection document physical journeys as seen by early explorers, journeys of the mind where scientists expand our conception of the universe, and journeys of imagination led by artists, writers, and artisans. |
| Grade(s): General audience |