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Students: Standards-aligned practice with adaptive mastery paths.

Teachers: Assign skills by unit (fractions, place value, multi-digit operations) to reteach or accelerate. Monitor mastery with the teacher dashboard: dashboard data pinpoints which standards students are mastering or struggling with, supporting small-group instruction and targeted scaffolds.

Promotes best practice in data-driven differentiation.

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Students: Dynamic, interactice models make abstract concepts visible. Great for geometry & measurement.

Teachers: Provides ready-made tasks aligned to standards that teachers can embed in lessons. Move learners from concrete to abstract with interactive area, symmetry, and angle exploration. Export screenshots into student reflections to solidify conceptual understanding.

Supports best practice in multiple representations and visual scaffolds for diverse learners.

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GeoGebra - the world's favorite, free math tools used by over 100 million students and teachers

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Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more

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Students: Encourage mathematical discourse, justification, and inquiry.

Teachers: Build custom challenge screens for multi-step problems. Use snapshots to compare strategies and push students into justification and generalization. Teacher dashboard allows monitoring of students reasoning in real time, enabling formative assessment and timely questioning.

Supports best practice of critical thinking and discourse.

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Students: Offers exploratory projects connecting math to art, coding, and real-world contexts. Interactive textbooks and Polypad.

Teachers: Includes teacher guides, tutorials, and classroom-ready tasks. Projects link geometry to art/coding (tessellations, symmetry). Students can publish a short explainer of their design to demonstrate transfer.

Supports best practice in extending learning through interdisciplinary inquiry and giving students authentic application opportunities.

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Discover Mathigon, the Mathematical Playground. Learning mathematics has never been so interactive and fun!

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Students: Collaboration on shared math journals and problem-solving galleries.

Teachers: Create a class “strategy gallery” each unit; students insert models, annotate steps, and comment on peers’ approaches to refine precision and math language. Easy to monitor participation, provide feedback in comments, and model math communication.

Aligns with best practice in student-centered learning and authentic communication of mathematical ideas.

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Beautiful presentations created together

Create and edit polished presentations in your browser-no software required. Multiple people can work at the same time so everyone always has the latest version.

Works across PCs, Macs, mobiles and tablets

View or even present your slides from your phone or tablet, so you always have the option to practice your presentation up until the last minute.

Unlimited revision history

Presentations get saved automatically online and versions are kept indefinitely without counting toward your Drive storage, so you can always track and undo revisions.

Simple sharing controls

Sharing is simple. You can assign permissions to control who views and edits your slides. You can also easily convert your Slides into the desired format to share with others.

What kind of features does Google Slides offer?

You can draw charts and diagrams, insert objects and shapes, format text and images, enable animations and much more.

Can I convert other presentations into Slides?

Yes. You can convert many different files types into Google Slides format. The original file will remain intact.

How does co-editing work?

Co-editing means that multiple people can work on the same slide at the same time. Sharing settings allows you to control who can view and edit a slide, and revision history enables you to revert to earlier versions. Also available in Google Docs and Sheets.

Start today - it's easy.

If you need help there's 24/7 email, chat, and phone support from a real person.

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Students: Interactive boards let students share strategies, reflections, and inquiries.

Teachers: Host a “Student Inquiry Corner” per unit where learners post questions, mini-investigations, and exemplars, building self-direction and metacognition. Can also be used to create exit tickets, organize misconceptions for discussions, and showcase different strategies.

Promotes best practice of formative feedback loops and student voice in curriculum.

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Students: Culturally relevant tasks connect content to equity, identity, and fairness.

Teachers: Wrap data/measurement standards in authentic contexts (community surveys, fairness ratios); students analyze, discuss, and present findings with math evidence. Provides lesson ideas and ready-to-use tasks aligned with social justice standards, equipping teachers to integrate culturally responsive teaching into math lessons.

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Learning for Justice is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that centers civic and political action education for everyone.

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Students: Engages with diverse artifacts, histories, and data-rich primary sources.

Teachers: Build word problems and data sets around diverse histories and STEM artifacts; students justify solutions and connect math to lived experiences. Offers curated collections with guiding questions, making it easier to design cross-cultural math connections while aligning to standards. Supports best practice in building relevance and inclusivity.

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Explore some of our most popular Learning Lab Collections. Use them as a springboard to continue your exploration of the many collections available on the site.

Talk with Me!
Learn about your community and neighborhood. In this Toolkit, leaners explore different homes, shops, and people in your neighborhood and have fun with related activities.

Talk with Me Toolkits provide you with chances to talk with your children to improve thinking, vocabulary, and language development. Talking with your child is great-and research shows that the quality of words children hear matters more than how much you talk.

Talk with Me Toolkits give you ideas to begin conversations that are organized around a theme. The Toolkits feature videos, photographs, paintings, and artworks along with questions to talk about with your child. At the end of each toolkit there are more activities to do and books to read together. Go through this toolkit with your child and see how many topics there are to talk about!
This toolkit was adapted with a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

Links to third-party websites and videos are included in this Toolkit for informational purposes only. They do not indicate the Smithsonian's endorsement, sponsorship of, or affiliation with the third party or content of the linked site, including any advertisements that might be posted.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

What inspires you? Get to know Alma Thomas, (b. Columbus, Georgia; lived and worked in Washington, DC, 1891-1978), an American artist and educator known for her signature painting style using bright colors and patterns inspired by nature. She became a full-time artist late in her life. Born in a time of horses and buggies, she lived through big advancements in technology, such as the space race and moon landing. Her art was inspired by the nature she saw outside her home studio, and awe for the exploration of our vast universe.
Get To Know Alma Thomas Use it in the classroom to teach:
is part of the Hirshhorn KIDS About the Artist series. About the Artist biographies are designed for kids under age 12. Modern and contemporary artists' lives reflect recent human history and events. Sharing these life stories and artworks can help kids see their own potential and better understand the world and their place in it. It is our goal to inspire future generations of artists, makers, and creative problem solvers-sharing artists stories is one way Hirshhorn KIDS realize this goal.
Art classroom: Color Theory, Pattern

Language Arts classroom: Biography

Social Studies classroom: 20th century

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National Museum of American History

In this playlist you will learn about how three of the first presidents shaped the executive branch of the United States government.

Start by clicking on the first tile in the upper left hand corner. Then move through the playlist by clicking on the ">" symbol at the bottom of the page. Look for the information and paperclip icons to provide more information about selected resources. There are 34 tiles in this collection.

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Educator Programs

Cultivating Learning is a professional development series where Smithsonian educators model teaching techniques for using digital museum resources to support student learning. This year's series celebrates America at 250. Programs are free and accessible to anyone.

Wednesday, April 15, 4:00 PM EST

Join Phoebe Sherman of the National Postal Museum to explore how postage stamps can be used in the classroom to encourage civic awareness and engagement. We'll examine how stamps can spark curiosity and deepen understanding of civics, American history, national identity, and commemoration by using thinking routines that focus on both subject matter and artistic design. You'll see how these approaches come to life with students and leave with classroom-ready resources and fresh ideas for incorporating postage stamps into your teaching practice.

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Wednesday, May 20, 4:00 PM EST

Join Nyssa Buning of the National Museum of American History's Spark!Lab and Carol O'Donnell of the Smithsonian Science Education Center to explore strategies for cultivating an inventive mindset in your students. We'll discuss the history of STEAM innovation in America and try an open-ended invention challenge that uses object-based learning techniques to encourage creative problem solving and support curiosity and perseverance, skills essential to inventors throughout history. You'll leave with a set of facilitation tools to support students as they develop their own inventive identity and become future problem-solvers. You'll also receive access to a newly released e-book from the Smithsonian Science Education Center, STEAM Innovation: Celebrating Our Nation's 250 Years.

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Wednesday, June 17, 4:00 PM EST

As America turns 250 in 2026, young people are writing its next chapter. Join a group of educators who apply interdisciplinary approaches to learning to engage young people in civic dialogue tied to their communities.

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What will you find in the Smithsonian Learning Lab?

Resources

Millions of Smithsonian digital images, recordings, texts, and videos in history, art and culture, and the sciences

Collections

Thousands of examples of resources organized and structured for teaching and learning by educators and subject experts

Resources

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Smithsonian Learning Lab Discover the digital education platform that connects people to Smithsonian objects, resources, and stories. Explore some of our most popular Learning Lab Collections. Use them as a springboard to continue your exploration of the many collections available on the site. Talk with Me! Learn about your community and neighborhood.

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Students: Use measurement and data skills in interactive science contexts.

Teachers: Apply measurement, graphing, and proportional reasoning in virtual labs; students collect data, graph results, and interpret patterns with math vocabulary. Teacher lesson plans and guiding questions align math/science standards, supporting STEAM integration and inquiry-based learning.

Demonstrates best practice in interdisciplinary curriculum design.

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Over 1.1 billion simulations delivered

160interactive simulations

97language translations

3001teacher-submitted lessons

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

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Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

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Students: Applies math in authentic engineering and space missions.

Teachers: Integrate geometry/data tasks with mission scenarios; students solve design constraints, compute measures, and communicate solutions with evidence. Free classroom resources include videos, activities, and educator guides. Equips teachers to use authentic performance tasks that blend math with science/engineering.

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Providing web-based resources to increase STEM literacy and inspire the next generation.

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Students: Growth mindset lessons build resilience during problem solving.

Teachers: Pair perseverance and growth-mindset check-ins with multi-step problem days; students set math goals and reflect after attempts. Teacher toolkit includes SEL mini-lessons and behavior-tracking tools that reinforce classroom culture.

Promotes best practice in embedding SEL into academic instruction.

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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Students: Routines help students regulate emotions and practice empathy during collaborative problem solving.

Teachers: Embed 3–5 minute routines (emotion check, gratitude for teammates, frustration reframe) before/after problem solving to improve focus and collaboration. Provides evidence-based practices with implementation guides, helping teachers plan short SEL integrations that directly support perseverance and focus in math.

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Welcome to Greater Good in Education! Explore our growing collection of 350+ practices related to social-emotional learning, character education, and mindfulness, drawn from the latest research.

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Find activities, practices, and tools to help you create happier, kinder, more equitable learning communities, drawn from research.