5-8 Natural History Museum
Bronze level
Published on 9/6/2013
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Learning objectives
- Ratios & Proportional Relationships: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.7 Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, vid...
- Ratios & Proportional Relationships: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.1c Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by mak...
Created for
Ages 11 - 13
Subject
Biology
Social Studies
Technology/ICT
Twenty-first century skills
21st Century Skills
Knowledge building & critical thinking
Global awareness & civic literacy
ICT for learning
Problem solving & innovation (creativity)
Required hardware
PC
Instructional approach
Project based learning (PBL)
Independent study
Learning activity details
(Today, on the 223rd anniversary of the founding of our federal capital, we’re featuring one of Washington D.C.’s treasures: The rotunda of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The museum got its start after a four-year expedition in 1838, which traveled the globe gathering cultural and natural history items. Today, over 126 million objects are part of its collection.)
What kind of elephant is in this picture?
What kind of elephant is in this picture?