National Geographic: Inside the White House
"First day on the job! You got the nomination, you campaigned, you won. Then you took the oath of office, made the first speech of your administration, and danced the night away. But now it’s morning in America -- time to face the Oval Office. It’s YOUR chance to be President of the United States. Let’s see how you do. Other fun clicks include silly things White House children have done (go to Kids) or the clickable map of the White House neighborhood (choose Mapping.) Teachers will like the grade-level classroom activities found under Learn More."
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National Park Service: Meet the People
"Meet the People and Symbols of Liberty (part of the National Park Service’s Teacher Corner) are called "Pre-Visit Classroom Activities," but are valuable whether you are able to visit Lady Liberty or not. They consist of multiple-choice quizzes, and suggestions for further research and discussion. Another hidden educational goodie is the printable "Ellis Island Pre-Visit" in Adobe Acrobat format."
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National Portrait Gallery
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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National Museum of the American Indian
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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National Museum of Natural History
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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National Zoo
"Before you even enter the virtual zoo, if you refresh the homepage, you’ll be rewarded with a variety of beautiful and too-cute-for-words animal pix. Once you are in, site highlights include the animal Web cams, photo gallery slide show, kids games and the two giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian. Browse "a sampling of moments" from the pandas’ first year at the zoo in the online photo essay, A Year In Their Life. Other don’t-miss-them-clicks are the Panda cams and notes from the ongoing panda research studies."
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National Postal Museum
"Leave your preconceived notions at your keyboard, because there is lots to do and see at the National Postal Museum. For stamp collectors and wannabes, there is an entire section devoted to philately. For art lovers, Art of the Stamp is an exploration of this "universally available art form." For history buffs, there’s the story of the Inverted Jenny (a famous postal misprint) and the biography of Mary Katherine Goddard, a colonial postmaster. And teachers will be bowled over by the printable curriculum guides, which include commemorative stamp designing and letter writing projects."
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National Museum of American History
"The National Museum of American History was my favorite Smithsonian when the kids and I visited Washington D.C. a few years ago. Its online counterpart not only lives up to my high expectations, but exceeds them. History Wired uses a rather unique Java interface to showcase some of the curators’s favorite objects. The museum houses more than three million artifacts, so choosing a handful of favorites is no small task. For more fun, click on over to any of thirty-two virtual exhibits on topics as diverse as the history of tools used to teach math, Julia Child’s kitchen, and the 1950’s paint-by-numbers craze."
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National Air and Space Museum
"To enter the virtual exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum, hover your mouse over Exhibitions to select either Current, Past or Web Only. Best clicks for classroom and home are the activities (some online, others offline) peppered throughout the online exhibits such as Is Air Really There (from How Things Fly) and Cyber-Center (found in Exploring the Planets.) Another exciting gallery (that is still being built) is a collection of 3-D virtual reality photographs of 335 aircraft and spacecraft. To visit, click on QuickTime Virtual Reality Project from the home page."
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MTV: Choose or Lose
"Created to mobilize twenty million potential voters under the age of the thirty, Choose or Lose is one part education, one part entertainment, and one part promotion. Best educational clicks for high-school students are Voting 101 (Political Conventions, What are Swing States?) and Vote Smart (position papers in printable PDF on topics such as the environment and health care.) Best just-for-fun click is ""Their Heads, Your Words"" where you can submit a funny caption for the picture of the week."
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