Education Resources at the Yale Peabody Museum

Curriculum Units

The following curriculum units are available for downloading for use by educators in classroom settings only.

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Please see Peabody Fellows Program for additional curriculum units.

Topics

Las Artes de México

• Curriculum and Pre-visit Materials
  With many thanks to Branford High School Spanish teacher Elise Weisenbach, we have put together a curriculum based on Las Artes de México, a temporary exhibition that was on view at the Yale Peabody Museum during the spring and summer of 2008. These 10 lesson units can be used as stand-alone materials without visiting the exhibition. Download the curriculum here. [PDF 873KB]
  

Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas

• Social Studies Curriculum
  
• Science Curriculum
  

• Classification of Connecticut’s Vertebrates:
  A Search & Learn Exploration for Peabody Museum [PDF 1.6 MB]
  
  
• Connecticut Population Ecology [PDF 123 KB]
  
  
• Henry David Thoreau [PDF 160 KB]
  
  
• The Human Impact on the Natural  Environment:
  The Case of the Connecticut River [PDF 193 KB]
  
  
• The Myths That Surround the Monk Parakeet [PDF 153 KB]
  
  
• Name Connecticut’s New Sports Team
  Based on Historical References [PDF 100 KB]
  
  
• New Haven Harbor: Alive and Well [PDF 145 KB]
  
  
• Plate Tectonics [PDF 395 KB]
  
  
• The River Runs Through It [PDF 300 KB]
  
  
• Summer Habitat and Activities of Southern Connecticut
  Woodland Indians in the 1600s [PDF 177 KB]
  
  
• Trash or Treasure [PDF 257 KB]
  
  
• Water Wheels [PDF 339 KB]
  
  
• Wildlife of Connecticut [PDF 473 KB]
  
  

Yale Peabody Museum Publications

The following Yale Peabody Museum publications appropriate for National Education Science Standards are available from The Museum Store:

The Age of Reptiles: The Art and Science
of Rudolph Zallinger’s Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale
Edited by Rosemary Volpe

Revised, full-color edition of the guide to The Age of Reptiles mural

The Forest Primeval:
The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests
by Leo J. Hickey, Yale Peabody Museum Curator of Paleobotany, Yale Department of Geology and Geophysics

A companion book for the exhibition Petrified Wood: Rainbows in Stone in the Peabody’s Great Hall.