Dear Learning Lab Registered User,

Everyone can make a difference! In this email, you'll find classroom-ready activities exploring activism. Engage students in learning about people who have worked to improve their communities throughout history—and inspire students to work toward a more just future themselves.

We hope you'll find these Smithsonian Learning Lab collections useful!

Best wishes,
The Smithsonian Learning Lab Team

FOR EARLY LEARNERS

TALKING ABOUT ACTIVISM
WITH CHILDREN

Detail of a hand painted poster reading Love in red with a red flower

EXPLORING PORTRAITS:
RUSSELL MEANS

Portrait of Russell Means in traditional Oglala Lakota Sioux clothing and jewelry and wrapped in an American flag

TAKING ACTION

USING LETTERS
AND THE MAIL

Mail art reading Be Prepared and an envelope with a collage of artistamps, postage stamps, and rubber stamped images and text

DESIGN IT YOURSELF:
ACTIVISM-INSPIRED T-SHIRT

MEETING ACTIVISTS

LYDIA X.Z. BROWN

QUEEN LILIʻUOKALANI

CLARA LEMLICH

RESISTANCE PAST AND PRESENT

NATIVE AMERICAN RESISTANCE &
ACTIVISM, THEN AND NOW

Black and white photograph of a large group of Nez Perce men on horseback in a field with mountains in the background

YOUTH IN ACTION:
INDIGENIZING PRIDE

Various Pride flags (rainbow, transgender, equality, LGBTQ+ people of color, and love rainbow) displayed alongside the Navajo Nation flag

BLACK RESISTANCE:
THE JOURNEY TO EQUALITY

Black-and-white photograph of people in a class on citizenship education. Several women and one man are seated in folding chairs along the walls of the office.

UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SUPPORTING POSITIVE IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT WITH MUSEUM OBJECTS

For the Early Childhood Education Initiative (ECEI) team at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, celebration and affirmation are at the foundation of early conversations about history, culture and identity with children. Join ECEI Director, Anna Hindley, and Lead Education Specialist, Ariel Moon, to discover how museum objects can be used to create joyful and empowering learning experiences for preschool through 2nd grade students.

Wednesday, March 22

4–5 PM, ET

A museum educator talks with young child as they create self-portraits.

ARCHIVED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CULTIVATING LEARNING VIDEO SERIES

Join Smithsonian and classroom educators in previously recorded sessions of our Cultivating Learning: Digital Museum Resources and the Smithsonian Learning Lab series. Explore inquiry-based teaching techniques, analysis and discussion strategies, and ready-to-use classroom activities about topics like primary sources, teaching with objects, art-making, and learning from data.

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