Education

Teacher Resources

Here you'll find lesson plans, curriculum guides, and TEKS correlations to help you integrate a museum visit into your classroom teaching.  Print out our guide to Museums and Thinking Skills for more suggestions on relating museums and learning. Also, see our Austin Science Fun Guide for a book of local science places, groups and activities.

Print our 2007–2008 Education Programs (PDF*, 85KB) brochure.

Lessons and Activities

Museums and Thinking Skills - for parents and teachers (PDF*, 101KB)

My Visit to the Museum - Pre-K/K, (PDF*, 850KB)
Fossil Pasta Dinosaurs - Pre-K-2nd (PDF*, 29KB)
Texas Pterosaur Hat - Pre-K-3rd
Potato Fish Adaptations - grades 3-8
Modeling Petrified Wood - grades 4-8 (PDF*, 25KB)
Creating a Freshwater Ecosystem
Understanding Geologic Time - grades 8-12


Dino Pit Discoveries Coloring Sheets (K-6)

Texas Pterosaur (PDF*, 46KB)
Onion Creek Mosasaur (PDF*, 69KB)
Seymouria (PDF*, 59KB)
Alamosaurus (PDF*, 41KB)
Bouldin Creek Starfish (PDF*, 90KB)
 

Curriculum Guides (K-12)

Curriculum guides coordinate our exhibits with multiple themes from the K-12 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in Science.

Fishes of Texas
Texas Wildlife Exhibits


Other Science Resources

Science. It's Everywhere! from the Partnership for Science Literacy of AAAS.  The Museum is a participating organization.
 

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In a museum careful observation of the objects can stimulate critical thinking skills such as comparing and contrasting, identifying and classifying, describing, predicting, and summarizing.

In these lessons and curriculum guides you'll find suggested discussion questions and activities that utilize those critical thinking skills. Most activities and questions are appropriate for pre- or post-visit lessons.

 

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Correlations

Science, Chapter 12

 

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