Students will learn about women's history by studying quilts. They will then make a quilt square in honor of a person who is important to them.

Students will create their own paper mache Carnival masks as a way to learn about Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican culture. This resource is part of an OurStory module entitled A Puerto Rican Carnival.

Students will learn how to make their own fish kites, called koinobori. Koinobori are an important expression of Japanese culture that became an important part of life for children in Japanese American internment camps during World War II.

With this resource, students will learn the many different inventions of Franklin and other inventors in the 1700's. His famous work was in electricity, one of the 7 main types of technology. Franklin was known for coming up with two charges which he called positive and negative. He also discovered that lightning and electricity are the same.

Students will learn the story of the flag that inspired the national anthem. An OurStory module entitled Making the Star-Spangled Banner, the resource includes links to hands-on activities and a list of recommended readings

In this video, students will learn about the flag from the War of 1812 which is on display at the Smithsonian Museum. They will learn about the history of the flag and the efforts which are being made to preserve it.

This collection offers a brief video introduction into the March on Washington in 1963, which brought national attention to many of these issues, and asks students to analyze a photograph and three artifacts from the March. Students will answer the question "What problems did participants in the March on Washington aim to solve?" and consider how these issues continue to have relevance in the United States today.

Students will cook one or more historical maritime recipes and then compare the foods they eat to what was served on ships in the past.

In this resource, students can learn about maritime issues during the 19th Century in the United States.

Learn to play and compose music with the mbira. Explore the use of the instrument in Zimbabwe to understand the relation of music to history and culture and its ability to incite social change. Lesson includes notations, historical background, and recordings and images from Smithsonian Folkways.

Students apply historical information to math problems to gain an understanding of the flag's size. This activity is included in the online exhibition entitled The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem.

Students will take a trip to a community meeting and think about the experience with suggested questions. This is designed to work with the League of Women's Voters but can adapted to work with other community groups.

Introduce students to the melodic rhythms of the tabla tarang, classical drumming from India, through music and movement. Learn to improvise the jati system of vocalizing rhythms.

Students will investigate the possible connection between the Cambrian explosion, methane hydrates and global warming. Students will work in collaborative groups to research a organism whose fossil can be found in the Burgess Shale. They will then share information in a large-group session and discuss how methane hydrates might be involved with global warming. In an optional extension activity, students create a model of the specimen they researched.

In this activity, students listen to a historical narrative and analyze other primary and secondary sources in order to answer a series of questions.

This resource provides links to sources which enable students to answer the question, "How did the Supreme Court's decison in Brown v. Board of Education pave the way for a new level of justice for all?"

In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to answer this question: "How did westward expansion affect Native Americans after the Civil War?" Students will write an essay based on their analysis of the documents.

In this activity, students examine primary source documents in order to compare and contrast the ways industrialization affected the lives of workers and farmers from 1870 to 1920.

In this activity, students use primary source documents to answer the question: "What were the political, social, and economic reasons that colonists rebelled against the king in 1776?"