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Check out our resources to empower educators with innovative tools and strategies to enhance their teaching and inspire their students. 

Below you'll find a variety of resources, from professional development opportunities to lesson plans, and more. 

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Professional Development

Hear from museum educators and content experts, try hands-on activities, explore museum objects, and gain new resources to develop your teaching practice in our professional development sessions. We offer professional development in a variety of formats. 
Programs
Learning resources
Plan a field trip
Professional development
Education monthly theme

Check out our resources to empower educators with innovative tools and strategies to enhance their teaching and inspire their students. 

Below you'll find a variety of resources, from professional development opportunities to lesson plans, and more. 

Subscribe to our Teacher Newsletter

Receive the Museum’s monthly newsletter for educators that highlights upcoming programs, amazing educators, and the newest content for the classroom.

Subscribe

Professional Development

Hear from museum educators and content experts, try hands-on activities, explore museum objects, and gain new resources to develop your teaching practice in our professional development sessions. We offer professional development in a variety of formats. 
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Live Webinars

Join Museum experts live using Zoom to a professional development training in real time. At least two live webinars happen each school year. 

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By Reservation

Bring professional development into your school with in-person or virtual sessions on a variety of topics. 

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On Demand

Watch recorded professional development sessions anytime on YouTube. 

Free Summer Professional Development Intensive

Teacher Innovator Institute

The Teacher Innovator Institute is a summer professional development intensive for middle school STEAM teachers across the United States. Teachers form a professional learning community and explore ways to incorporate museum content and authentic inquiry into their classrooms.

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More Resources to Use in Your Classroom

From short videos to multi-day lesson plans, we offer a variety of resources to use in your classroom. 

Learning Resources Database

Search our resources for learners of all ages. In our Learning Resources database, you can filter by topic, grade level, resource type, and language. 

    

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Anytime Expeditions

Anytime Expeditions are a package of content ready for teachers to use. They include: content guides ready for instructional use, hands-on experiments, artifact immersions, and a class-wide activity.  

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Learning Lab

Discover over a hundred collections of artifacts and activities designed to help you bring air and space into your classroom. 

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Science in Pre-K

A foundation in science content and teaching methods for science inquiry in a preschool environment. 

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