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Natural history museums -- Educational aspects

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Department of Education booklets and pamphlets, 1918-1968

 Collection
Identifier: DR 050
Scope and content

Public outreach programs and popular lectures.

Dates: 1918 - 1968

Department of Education photographic album, 1961-1963

 Collection
Identifier: DR 053
Scope and content

Color photographs in three-ring binder documenting Hospital and Special Schools Program visits. Includes 35mm slides in sleeves.

Dates: 1961 - 1963

Education Service Materials

 Collection
Identifier: Mem 310
Scope and Contents The Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural History takes Museum research and scientific data and makes it accessible to teachers and students. In 1903, the Museum partnered with schools to create a system of circulating natural history collections, developed and designed by the Museum to provide teachers with teaching materials, specimens, and artifacts to support specially designed educational readings and lesson plans on a variety of subjects in the natural sciences....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1903-circa 1970; 1895-circa1970

Malcolm Arth collection, 1939-1965

 Collection
Identifier: DR 051
Scope and content

Flyers, programs for Museum public programs and lectures, education publications. Children's thank-you notes and drawings.

Dates: 1939 - 1965

National Center for Science Literacy, Education and Technology (NCSLET) retired Curriculum Collections

 Collection
Identifier: MA2022-004
Scope and Contents

This collection contains curriculum material that has been retired from the AMNH website. The curricula were designed for educators, students and families and includes activities, readings, and other content related to varied science subjects. They are arranged in their original subject groupings as curriculum sets.

Dates: Existence: 1998-2015

Department of Public Instruction correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: DR 047
Scope and Contents The archive is arranged in two boxes of 42 consecutively numbered folders, covering the years 1903-1908 (with one exception: a letter dated 1909 in folder 39). It comprises correspondence, administrative paperwork, and other documents regarding the following: (1) planning, scheduling, and ticketing for school and public lectures and for the development and delivery of circulating collections for classroom use; (2) correspondence and orders from the Department to...
Dates: 1903-1909; Majority of material found within 1904-1909