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Natural History Learning Lab Collections
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Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri
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Explore more than 300 resources! Science resources in this library align with Disciplinary Core Ideas and Crosscutting Concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards and social studies resources support the themes in the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. 

 

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Insects. Illustrations of a butterfly, fly, beetle, ant, and grasshopper on a green background with an illustration of grass.

What Is an Insect?

Videos and Webcasts
Illustration of a crossection of a hillside showing horizontal geological layers, some of which have fossils in them.

It's a Date

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Video screenshot showing a large image of illustrations of five different dinosaur skeletons and small images of three people's faces to the right.

Webinar: Explore How Dinosaurs Moved with Paleontologist Matthew Carrano

Videos and Webcasts
An orange-yellow octopus with two eyes, Opisthoteuthis spp.

Webinar: The Teamwork That Made the Most 'Adorabilis' Deep Sea Discovery

Videos and Webcasts
Elytra Color with an image of dozens of beetles of various colors, including green, orange, yellow, black, and blue

Webinar – The Beetle's Special Adaptation for Survival: Elytra

Videos and Webcasts
Andrea Eller holding a plastic skeletal model of a human hand

Webinar – Handing It to the Mammals: What Anatomy Reveals About Animal Adaptations

Videos and Webcasts
An acorn woodpecker clinging to the side of a tree. Some text is displayed next to the image.

Webinar: Adaptations of Acorn Woodpeckers with Sahas Barve

Videos and Webcasts
Floyd Shockley holding a collection case of beetles

Webinar: Beetle Adaptations for Survival with Floyd Shockley

Videos and Webcasts
Kyle Miller from the National Zoo

Webinar: Reptile Discovery Center Virtual Tour with Kyle Miller

Videos and Webcasts
Tank in the coral lab with orange and pink corals

Webinar: Virtual Tour of the National Zoo’s Coral Lab with Thomas Wippenbeck

Videos and Webcasts