Program:	Power of Nature
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grades 6, ES Explore severe weather conditions and natural disasters, such as volcanoes, tornadoes, and hurricanes through a Jeopardy-style game.
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Program:	Water Fun: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Kindergarten Students will discover different properties of water in this fun program.
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Program:	Wild Weather
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Pre-K – grade 1 What is weather? How does it affect us? Students will learn weather basics during a fun activity that focuses on wind.
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Program:	Animal Basics
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Kindergarten – grade 3 This hands-on program helps students understand that animals can be classified by their coverings or skin.
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Program:	Rainforest Resources
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grades 1 – 4 This program explores rainforest resources through a fun and active clue game.
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Program:	Virginia's Rocks and Minerals
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grades 1, 4 – 6, ES Students will explore the bountiful resources of the Earth through rock and mineral samples.
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Program:	Weather Wizards
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grades 2, 4 What’s the difference between a hurricane and a tornado? Students will learn what causes certain weather conditions and how they affect us.
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Program:	Virginia Watersheds
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grades 4, 6 This program incorporates an interactive watershed model to illustrate the basic properties and characteristics of watersheds.
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Program:	Ready to Recycle: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Kindergarten – grade 2 Students listen to a story about Henry the Heron to discover the hazards of litter and play a matching game to learn about recycling.
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Program:	Awesome Autumn: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Kindergarten – grade 3 Learn how plants and animals transform to prepare themselves for the cold winter months.
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Program:	Marvelous Magnets: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Kindergarten, grade 2 Meet Madam Magenta as she conducts simple experiments involving magnetic fields, poles, attraction, and the uses of magnets.
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Program:	Diving into Oceans: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Kindergarten – grade 5 Take a journey to another world to explore the mysteries of the deep.
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Program:	It Matters: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grade 2 Students learn about the properties of solids, liquids, and gases through hands-on experiments.
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Program:	Hooray for Habitats: OutreachProgram
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grade 2 Discover the differences and similarities of the river and temperate forest habitats.
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Program:	Incredible Journey: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grade 2 Students will learn about the water cycle as they “become” water droplets in this highly interactive Project WET© game.
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Program:	Backboned Seven: Vertebrates of Virginia: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grades 3 – 7 The seven classes of vertebrates are brought to life in this program through pictures, various specimens, and hands-on activities.
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Program:	Kingdoms and Keys: Outreach Program
	Virginia Museum of Natural History
Description:	Grade 5 By exploring the characteristics of the five kingdoms, students will discover how scientists classify living things.
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Program:	A Glimpse of Slavery in America
	U.S. National Slavery Museum
Description:	This interactive educational CD contains materials and information on various artifacts that will be on display at the United States National Slavery Museum.Information on the CD includes: unknown or little known slaves, artifacts, rare documents, sheet music dating back to the 1800's, and educational activities available for teachers to use in the classroom. The United States National Slavery Museum in partnership with the University of Mary Washington produced this educational CD. For more information on the interactive CD, go to www.usnsm.org.
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Program:	American Slavery: Why was it different than slavery dating back to antiquity?
	U.S. National Slavery Museum
Description:	Grade Level: Grades 4, 6, middle and high school Description- This lesson will provide students with the opportunity to be introduced to American slavery and tell how it differs from other forms of slavery. Students will also examine historical documents and a poem by Sterling A. Brown to better comprehend American slavery by interpreting the essence of the documents. The lesson plan includes objectives, key words, materials, procedures, and illustrations. Procedures include an ice breaker activity, a KWL chart (what do you know/what do you want to know/what did you learn), a journal response activity, an interview activity, and a student survey.
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Program:	U.S. National Slavery Museum Traveling Exhibit
	U.S. National Slavery Museum
Description:	The United States National Slavery Museum would be pleased to include your school in its traveling exhibit. This exhibit entitled “Slavery in America: A More Complete Story” is available now for two-week showings. The exhibit includes information on slaves that has been conspicuously absent in American history textbooks and supplemental resource materials. Yet, 139 years after slavery ended, it continues to occupy center stage in much of this nation’s racial dialogue. The exhibit also includes copies of original slave documents that are a part of the growing collection of the USNSM. The exhibit may be booked for two weeks and during this year the only cost that will be incurred by the receiving schools is shipping and handling fees.
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Program:	Answers, Information, and Activities for Everyone on American Slavery: An educational Tool-
	U.S. National Slavery Museum
Description:	A book loaded with little known and unknown information about slaves and slavery. The resource is aligned with national and state assessment standards.
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Program:	The Institution of Slavery During Two Time Periods
	U.S. National Slavery Museum
Description:	The purpose of the lesson as an overall goal, will be for the student to be able to analyze the social, racial, political,and historical aspects of the institution of slavery. Students will draw conclusions and develop persuasive arguments as they apply knowledge of United States history from perspectives within the context of 21st century America. The purpose of the primary lesson is to use primary and secondary sources to investigate the historical, political, and social characteristics of the institution of slavery. Examining writings in selected passages from the Old and New Testament will allow students to identify characteristics of slavery from the recorded history of a Middle Eastern ancient civilization.
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Program:	How Free Were "Free" Blacks?
	U.S. National Slavery Museum
Description:	Grade Level: middle and high school (additional information for Grade 4 included) Description-This lesson will provide information on the fading humanitarianism after the American Revolution and the rise of a more degrading racism among whites in the north, south, east and west. Racism made life difficult for free black people. The 1790’s yielded a true reversal of human rights for blacks in this country. Pro-slavery sentiments took off and human rights declined for blacks free or slave. Students will be taught the difference between non-slave freedom v. freedom protected by the United States Constitution, local statues, and local norms. The lesson plan includes objectives, key words, materials, procedures, and a glossary of terms. Procedures include vocabulary mapping, debate preparation, completing a graphic organizer, and using primary sources.
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Program:	US National Slavery Museum Teachers' Resource Aid
	U.S. National Slavery Museum
Description:	The United States National Slavery Museum has developed four (4) educational resources for teachers that align the Standards of Learning with Museum Resources and Exhibits. The publication relies heavily on the actual Enhanced Scope and Sequence publication developed in 2004 by the Virginia Department of Education. The resources are entitled: • Teacher’s Aid: Focus on American Slavery – Virginia Studies (Colonization to the Present) • Teacher’s Aid: Focus on American Slavery – United States History to 1877 • Teacher’s Aid: Focus on American Slavery – United States History, 1877- Present • Teacher’s Aid: Focus on American Slavery – Virginia and United States History The Teacher’s Aid: Focus on American Slavery is a compilation of particular Virginia Standards of Learning and their essential understandings, knowledge and skills for elementary, middle and high school levels. These specific learning objectives, lesson plans and activities concentrate on elements and effects of the slavery experience. The Teacher’s Aid includes appropriate sample resources and assessment pertaining to American slavery. Carefully selected and annotated segments in the VDOE document, Enhanced Scope and Sequence, comprise the entire guide for this field of study.
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Program:	Educational Activities Packet
	U.S. National Slavery Museum
Description:	This educational packet includes activities for grades 4 through 12. The activities reinforce the Virginia Standards of Learning and supplement classroom-taught content. Activities include a scrabble-gram puzzle,a cut and join activity,a connect the dots activity,Who, What and Why learning review,Reading Comprehension assignments and other "hands on activities and brain teasers" for students. It is an excellent learning tool that's fun. Also, there is a bibliography on American slavery for young readers.
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