This is so awesome! This week I saw that there is a new Smithsonian Education activity guide for kids available for download online.
Inspiration Nation is filled with inspiring stories, hands-on experiments, and art projects for students in K through 8th grade. The 40-page activity guide is bold, creative, and colorful, and portions of it are bilingual.
It focuses on three main questions:
- “How have you been inspired?,”
- “How have others been inspired?,”
- and “How can inspiration change the world?”
This resources is part of their Learning Lab collection, so when you download it, you'll have the option of taking a tour. If you've never used a Learning Lab, it's pretty fascinating. There is a tool bar that lets you do/read a variety of things including:
- information about what you are seeing, i.e. a description and other details,
- additional resources or interactives that the artist has uploaded to supplement the piece,
- the option to add the piece to your own virtual collection (!),
- the ability to bookmark it as one of your favorites,
- the option to cite the source if you are doing research (it will create the citation for you in MLA, APA, or Chicago style),
- and the ability to flag the source if you are especially impressed or concerned about it.
Click here to get your free print-friendly PDF of “Inspiration Nation.”