The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Teaching with Museum Objects Professional Certificate

What you will learn:
- Gain expertise from educators from multiple Smithsonian museums through recorded video sessions.
- Reflect and share ideas with a community of educators via discussion forums.
- Explore inquiry-based strategies for integrating museum objects and works of art into your teaching, whether in the classroom or online.
- Learn to use the Smithsonian Learning Lab to curate digital resource collections and share lesson ideas.

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The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Inspiring Civic Engagement (edX)

Discover how museum objects can help learners explore the challenges and opportunities of living in a democracy and inspire civic action. How can educators of all disciplines prepare students to be active and informed participants in a democracy? Join us to explore this question through the lens of six [...]

The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Interrogating the Stories We Tell (edX)

Educators from six Smithsonian museums will dive deeply into the objects in their collections to interrogate the stories we know and tell our students. They will explore connections among their collections and model teaching strategies that participants can implement with their students.