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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Las Artes de México

• Download our curriculum [PDF 873KB] designed to be used in conjunction with a visit to the exhibition Las Artes de México. These 10 lesson units can also be used as stand-alone activities.
  

Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas

• Social Studies Curriculum
  
• Science Curriculum
  

Peabody Fellows Professional Development Program

Curriculum units developed by participants in the Peabody Fellows Program Biodiversity Institute, published by the Yale Peabody Museum.

• Biodiversity and Global Change: Lobster Die-off!
  
  • Introduction [PDF 288 KB]
    
  • Part 1 [PDF 237 KB] | Part 2 [PDF 180 KB] | Part 3 [PDF 309 KB]
    
  • Search for these podcasts of presentations by Yale researchers from Lobsters & Lyme Day at the Yale Peabody Museum (release date June 25, 2007):
    
    • — Professor Carmela Cuomo on “Lobster Mortality on Long Island Sound: A Case Study for the 21st Century” in the Yale Science section of iTunes U
      
    • — Professor Janine Evans on “Lyme Disease: Clinical Research Perspectives” in the Yale Health & Medicine section of iTunes U
      
      
• Peabody Fellows Biodiversity Curricula
  

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Teachers’ Workshops and Seminars

Curriculum units developed by participants in Museum workshops and seminars, published by the Yale Peabody Museum Public Education Department.

Connecticut Now and Then

• 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  Based on Historical References [PDF 100 KB]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.