Smithsonian Institution Archives

Educational Materials for K-12 Teachers

PRIMARY SOURCES FOR THE CLASSROOM

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The Smithsonian Archives has made digital facsimiles of its primary sources available to teachers via the Internet. These materials include diaries, letters, and photographs that can be used in the classroom.

Visit our website at: www.siarchives.si.edu
our archives catalog at www.siris.si.edu
and Smithsonian history catalog at www.siris.si.edu

	Learn about Mary Henry's Civil War Diary, free blacks working at Smithsonian in the 1850s, how the Smithsonian helped the Wright Brothers, 19th century explorers, and rocket inventor Robert Goddard, with curriculum guide and transcripts www.siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/documents/index.htm Smithsonian Scrapbook: Letters, Diaries & Photographs from the Smithsonian Archives
Examine panoramic images of the Canadian Rockies www.siarchives.si.edu/techsvcs/walcott/index.htm Beauty in Service to Science: Walcott panoramas
	View pictures of the Smithsonian since the 1850s www.siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/historic/index.htm Historic Pictures of Smithsonian
Find out the story of Smithsonian with a curriculum guide. www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Smithson-to-Smithsonian/ Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution
	Journey back in time on Smithsonian expeditions. www.siarchives.si.edu/archives/findingaids/faexpeditions.htm Guide to Smithsonian Expeditions, 1878-1917
Learn how the weather service began at Smithsonian www.siarchives.si.edu/history/jhp/joseph03.htm Joseph Henry: Father of the Weather Service
	Tour the Smithsonian’s Museum in 1886 www.150.si.edu/siarch/guide/start.htm View the exhibits in 1886
Discover the Smithsonian in 1900 www.siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/century/index.htm Smithsonian at the Turn of the 20th Century

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