Category: Resource Roundup: A Blog for Educators and Families

Food for Fighting: Planting a Victory Garden

This series of activities guides your students through the necessary steps for planting a garden at home! From the history of victory gardens to mapping your garden, students will get a chance to get their hands (and knees) dirty in the yard!

Teaching the Census and Learning about our Community

Activities that help you teach about the census: the history of the census, why it's important to do and how we use census data!

Explore Outdoors!

A fun introduction to the study of natural history and an exciting scavenger hunt!

Favorite Find – Black History Month Lesson Plans

Lesson plans from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings on teaching Black history through music.

Investigating Disease in History

A lesson plan on infections diseases in history - just in time for flu season!

Primary Source of the Month – Part 2

Each month we feature a primary source you can use with your students to develop analysis and other historical thinking skills.

Primary Source of the Month

Each month we feature a primary source you can use with your students to develop analysis and other historical thinking skills.

Welcome to our NEW educator blog!

We have changed the way we are communicating with teachers and are excited to present our new blog and education newsletter.

Wearing Black Sox with Scandals

Billy Possum