Resources and activities to use at home, in the classroom, and some to guide your visit at the museum.
Muse2You! Virtual Museum Tours
Best for 3rd - 6th grades
Materials to use with the O’odham Muse2You! tour
O’odham Tour Background Information (pdf)
O’odham Tour Vocabulary (pdf)
O'odham Tour Discussion Questions (pdf)
O’odham Tour Crossword Puzzle (pdf)
Oodham Crossword Answers (pdf)
Sonoran Desert Writing Activity Lesson Plan and Images (pdf)
Tohono O'odham Traditional Foodways (pdf)
Materials to use with the Yaqui Muse2You! tour
Yaqui Tour Background Information (pdf)
Yaqui Tour Vocabulary (pdf)
Yaqui Tour Discussion Questions (pdf)
Paper Flower Making Instructions (pdf)
More virtual tours and accompanying materials coming soon!
Your tour guide, Miss Mae.
Explore Border Walls with Creative Writing and Visual Literacy Activities
Best for high school students
A traveling exhibit featured at ASM in 2020, A History of Walls: The Borders We Build, serves as the foundation and springboard for this exploration. These writing prompts and activities will help you explore ideas and information about border walls with your students.
Woven Through Time: American Treasures of Native Basketry and Fiber Art
Explore the ancient and abiding fiber-weaving traditions of the region.
Discovery Hunts in Woven Through Time
The Pottery Project: 24,000 Pots, 2,000 Years
The Pottery Project celebrates 2,000 years of Native pottery-making traditions in the U.S. Southwest.
Discovery Hunts in The Pottery Project
Additional Resources
This Smithsonian webinar guides teachers through strategies for teaching about treaties and their relevance today. An inquiry-based approach is used to examine the importance of using treaties as primary source documents in the classroom. Recommended for middle school educators.
This digital lesson supplements the Smithsonian webinar by providing Native perspectives, images, documents, and other sources to help students and teachers understand the remarkable nature of the Navajo Treaty of 1868. Recommended for educators of grades 6–8
The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology
American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving
Smithsonian Institution Resources for Teaching about Native peoples
Smithsonian Learning Lab brings the world into your classroom
Lesson Plans that help fight Native invisibility
U.S. Immigration: Linking Past to Present (Video)
U.S. Immigration Film Discussion Guide
U.S. Immigration History and Policy
Be a Photo Detective: Look at Photographs for Clues
Discover ASM Coloring Book for grades K-1
Arizona Native Nations Activity Sheet
At the Foot of Black Mountain: Tucson's Multicultural Past