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JUNE 2008
   
 NEW EDUCATOR'S GUIDE AND RESOURCES


The Horse for Educators
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Use The Horse Educator’s Guide and free online resources to help teach topics such as animal behavior and physiology, structures and functions, evolution of species, and scientific inquiry.

OLogy: The Horse
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At the Museum’s website for kids, students can explore an interactive on horse breeds, make flipbooks to study horse gaits, and more!
 NEW SCIENCE BULLETINS VIDEOS

Science Bulletins brings current research about the natural world to your classroom through high-definition videos, interactives, and essays.

The Last Wild Horse:
The Return of Takhi to Mongolia
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Conservationists have reintroduced the only undomesticated horse species to its homeland.

Moving Mountains
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?sid=e.f.moving_mountains.20080501
How do mountains grow? A new hypothesis challenges the legacy of plate tectonics.

Sky Found to Shine Twice as Bright
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Dust prevents most of the light from stars and galaxies from reaching our telescopes.

Jazz on the Brain
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How does our brain change when we spontaneously create music?
 LAST CHANCE FOR SUMMER COURSES!
Seminars on Science
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Seminars on Science still has space available in the Summer 2008 - Session 2! Take an award-winning online course to fulfill degree or certification requirements, or your own curiosity about the natural world! Designed for K-12 educators, each six-week course is led by an experienced classroom teacher and a research scientist.

Courses run June 30 – August 10. Registration closes June 16. Courses include: The Solar System; Earth: Inside and Out; The Ocean System; Genetics, Genomics, Genethics, The Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds, The Diversity of Fishes, Sharks and Rays and Evolution.

Please call (800) 649-6715 or register online.

 NEW EXHIBITION
The Horse
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Discover how nature’s most majestic creature has shaped our world. This exhibition explores the origins of the horse family, early interactions between horses and humans that led to horse domestication, and how horses have changed warfare, trade, transportation, agriculture, sports, and other facets of human life.

 AT THE MUSEUM
Education Department
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The Museum is a rich resource for field trips, research, and professional development. Find out how to enrich your classroom by using the Museum and our education department to your advantage.

Public Programs
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Check out the exciting lectures, performances, field trips, and workshops offered by the Museum.

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