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Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
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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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Video screenshot showing three images: A man putting together a small dinosaur skeleton on a table; a woman speaking sign language; and another woman in front of a full bookcase.

Webinar – Building Dinosaurs: Behind the Scenes

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Screenshot of presentation slide showing fossil preparator Myria Perez alongside paleontologist Kay Behrensmeyer

Webinar: Expert Is Online: Fossil Preparation with Myria Perez

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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

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Video still with three images: A person holding up a drawing of a crocodile-like creature with a really long tail; a man with a beard standing next to an easel with a similar drawing on it; and a person signing in American Sign Language.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Paleo Portraits

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Video frame of three people in a Zoom webinar: Laura Haynes, Kay Behrensmeyer, and Camilla Souto

Women Scientists Share Their Stories: Kay Behrensmeyer and Camilla Souto

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Presentation slide with photos of three scientists: Cari Corrigan, L. Miché Aaron, and Mariah Baker

Webinar: What Mars Reveals about Life in Our Universe

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Presentation slide with map of the world with illustrations of ancient large animals on it.

Webinar: Did Humans Cause Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions?

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Harvard & Smithsonian and dance artist Kylie Murray from Local Motion Project

Webinar: Dancing the Milky Way

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Gabriela Farfan, a woman with long, brown hair and a blue shirt, standing next to a block of quartz crystals slightly taller than she is

What Is a Mineral?

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Video screenshot showing a presentation slide with six numbered objects on it; one looks like a large tooth.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – What Is a Fossil?

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Michelle Pinsdorf in the fossil prep lab.

Webinar: Fossils Live! A Tour of the Fossil Prep Lab

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