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3D Model: Cryolophosaurus Skull | Dinosaur Toolkit
Use this 3D model to see how scientists reconstruct animals like Cryolophosaurus from the fossil record.
Interactive or AppGrades PK-123D Model: Tyrannosaurus rex | Dinosaur Toolkit
Interact with this 3D model to find out what we can learn about SUE the T. rex's life by looking at its fossils, then test your knowledge
Interactive or AppGrades PK-12AANHPI Scavenger Hunt-English
AANHPI Teacher Reference Guide
Adventure Guide: Animals
Explore dioramas and life-like models!
ActivityGrades PK-8Adventure Guide: Stanley Field Hall
Fun activities to do together
ActivityGrades PK-8Chicago's Chinatown Coloring Pages
Color and Explore Chinatown!
ActivityGrades PK-12Chicago's Chinatown Community Guide
An infographic guide to Chinatown's past, present, and future.
ActivityLesson PlanGrades 3-8Chicago's Legacy Hula & TEAACH Act
Chicago's Legacy Hula Professional Development Workshop
VideoChicago's Legacy Hula Virtual Tour
Learn the untold history of four Kumu Hula (master teachers of Hawaiian Hula) who perpetuated, preserved, and protected Hula as a way of life.
Interactive or AppGrades PK-12Chicago's Legacy Hula Virtual Tour Discussion Questions
ActivityLesson PlanGrades 6-12Chicago's Legacy Hula Virtual Tour Standards Alignment
Lesson PlanActivityGrades 6-12Community Guide Instructions
This activity invites you to document, honor, and analyze a community through history, place, and lived experience.
ActivityGrades 6-12Experiential Workshop Program Guide
Workshop overview with descriptions and standards.
Lesson PlanGrades PK-12Exploring Artifacts from the Pacific | Exploring the Field Guide
Observe and analyze artifacts from the Pacific Islands to develop evidence-based claims about how these cultures view the world.
ActivityGrades 9-12Exploring Objects | China Toolkit
Analyze objects using varied lenses, including anthropology, history, economics, geography, and art history.
Lesson PlanGrades 3-12Harris Loan Experience Box
As American As...? Teaching Chinese American History through Food
ActivityInterview #1: Verna Apio Takashima on Kapa Making
Master Kapa Maker Verna Apio Takashima discusses her work as an artist and what inspired her to become a kapa maker.
VideoGrades 6-12Interview #2: Verna Apio Takashima on the Significance of Hawaiian Kapa
Master Kapa Maker Verna Apio Takashima explains the difference between kapa and the barkcloth of other Pacific Islands.Then, she shares why it is important to teach kapa making to future generations.
VideoGrades 6-12Interview #3: Verna Apio Takashima on What Students Should Know About Kapa and Hawaiʻi
Master Kapa Maker Verna Apio Takashima reflects on why learning traditional kapa methods is important and how Hawaiʻi is a special place because of aloha.
VideoGrades 6-12Investigating the Qingming Scroll | China Toolkit
Learn about the contradictions depicted in the Qingming Scroll and compare it with present-day representations of idealized societies.
Lesson PlanGrades 6-12Kapa Making Part 1: Beating the Kapa
Master Kapa Maker Verna Apio Takashima demonstrates the first steps of making kapa and explains how she learned the artform from her kumu (teacher).
VideoGrades 6-12Kapa Making Vocabulary
Learn more about kapa making tools and 'Ōlelo Hawaiʻi – the Native Hawaiian language – as you watch Verna Apio Takashima’s videos about kapa making.
ActivityLesson PlanGrades 6-12Pepeha (For Non-Māori)
Learn about pepeha (a Māori form of introduction), and then write your own!
ActivityLesson PlanGrades 3-8Read, Watch, Listen, Visit: Student Resource List | China Toolkit
Explore more ways to learn about China with your students.
Family-Friendly LessonGrades 3-12TEAACH Act Panel
The TEAACH Act: From Advocacy to Implementation, A Virtual Professional Development Panel
VideoThe Māori Meeting House: A Living Ancestor
Lesson Plan for Early Elementary and Middle School | Grades 3-5, 6-8
Lesson PlanGrades 3-8The Māori Meeting House: A Living Ancestor (Student Copy-English/Spanish)
Slide Deck with Vocabulary.
Lesson PlanGrades 3-8