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Geologist Elizabeth Cottrell gestures with her hands while sitting at a table talking to two students.

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A rock with yellow and white crystals
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
Smithsonian Libraries: Natural History & Physical Sciences Subject Guides

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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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A group of young children in yellow shirts gathered in front of a table with large bones on it.

Video: Kids, you are just like scientists!

Videos and Webcasts
Deep human footprint in the ground

Webinar: Fossilized Footprints Reveal a Snapshot of Early Human Life

Videos and Webcasts
Video frame of a cellphone with labels indicating where certain raw materials in the phone originated.

Webinar: Teen Earth Optimism – Exploring Cellphone Sustainability

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Frank Niepold, a light-skinned man wearing glasses and a black blazer, sitting in front of an oval mirror on the wall behind him

Webinar: Teen Earth Optimism – Climate-Smart Communities

Videos and Webcasts
Climate scientist Jeremy Hoffman, a light-skinned, bearded man wearing headphones and white shirt, sitting in front of a bookcase with plants on it

Webinar: Teen Earth Optimism – How Climate Change Affects Cities

Videos and Webcasts
A blue and orange mandarinfish, or Synchiropus splendidus

What Makes Things Blue?

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A woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a navy blue blazer over a royal blue shirt, stands next to an open drawer of coral specimens. The drawer is one of many in a cabinet of drawers.

Descubriendo los secretos del coral: mineralogía del coral

Videos and Webcasts
Illustration of a yellow coral underwater on a blurry gray background. The coral is shaped like a pencil eraser and has rows of green splotches on it. Text: we're alive.

Unlocking the Secrets of Coral: Coral Mineralogy

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