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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
  • Programs
    • Learning resources
  • Learning resources
    • Plan a field trip
  • Plan a field trip
  • Reserve a Group Program
  • Holt Scholars Program
  • Tips and Guidelines
    • Professional development
  • Professional development
  • Professional development sessions
  • Teacher Innovator Institute
  • Anytime Expeditions
    • Education monthly theme
  • 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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