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Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente
This bilingual website allows users to trace Roberto Clemente's extraordinary life and career through interactive games,
teacher's lesson plans, and movie clips (provided by Major League Baseball). The site was generously sponsored by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
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Corridos sin Fronteras: A New World Ballad Tradition
Also a bilingual website, Corridos features full classroom materials, countless audio clips, and meticulously researched history. The site encourages visitors to create their own ballad in the corrido tradition. While the exhibition is no longer traveling, the website truly provides an in-depth history of this musical art form. |
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Doodles, Drafts, and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian A complete online version of the traveling exhibition, this website provides detailed imagery of famous and not so famous inventions as well as information about the forward thinking men and women who developed them. The site was made possible by the generous support of Marsh. |
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Earth from Space  This fun and interactive website allows viewers to zoom in on spectacular satellite details of the earth. Designed with teachers and students in mind, the website complements the traveling exhibition by the same name and educates readers about satellite technology and its myriad applications. |
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Key Ingredients: America By Food (Museum on Main Street)
This comprehensive website explores the history of American food from Native American traditions to modern regional cooking. The site also incorporates complete teacher resources and a "cookbook project" that permits visitors to search for recipes and even share their own. |
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A Magic Web: The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island
A vivid portfolio of photographer Christian Ziegler's work in the wilds of Panama, this website is organized similarly to A Magic Web (Oxford University Press, 2002) and explores the rich biological diversity of Barro Colorado Island. |
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Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Sports fans should bookmark this site as it provides fascinating and little-known details about some of the most pivotal moments in sports history. Rare imagery, quotes, and Smithsonian artifacts make this a serious must-see! Audi is the exclusive National sponsor of the Sports exhibition. |
