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Museum exhibits and programs address standards for unifying concepts and processes strands and inquiry.

Process Standards: Museum exhibits and programs address the history process standards of chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis, and interpretation, historical research capabilities, and historical issues.
Physical Science Standards
Properties and changes of properties in matter
National Museum of American History • Hands-On Science Center
• Science in American Life
National Museum of Natural History • Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals
Motions and forces
National Air & Space Museum • How Things Fly • Jet Aviation
National Museum of Natural History • Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals  
Interactions of energy and water
National Air & Space Museum • How Things Fly  
National Museum of American History • Science in American Life  
National Museum of Natural History • Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals
Life Science Standards
Characteristics of Living Organisms
National Museum of Natural History

• Insect Zoo
• Butterfly Garden
• Reptiles
• Living Fossils
• Bones
• Discovery Room

• Naturalist Center
• Tiger
• Marlin
• Birds of District of Columbia
• Mammals, Birds, Marine
National Zoological Park • Cheetah Conservation Station
• Bird House (indoor & outdoor)
• Reptile Discovery Center
• Giant Panda
• Large Mammal House
• Small Mammal House
• Great Ape House
• Milk and Mothering
• Wetlands —Aquatic Birds
• Invertebrates
• Think Tank
• Great Cats
• Bat Cave
• Gibbon Range
• Seals and Sea Lions
• Bears
• Amazonia
• Prairie — Bison
• Valley Trail —North American Animals
Earth in the Solar System
National Air & Space Museum • Exploring the Planets
National Museum of Natural History • Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals
Changes in Earth and sky
National Air & Space Museum • Looking at Earth
National Museum of Natural History • Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals
History and Nature of Science
Science as human endeavor
National Museum of American History • Engines of Change
• Information Age
• Science in American Life
National Museum of Natural History • Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
• Insect Zoo
• Fossil Lab
• Early Life
• Fossil Plants
• Dinosaurs
• Fossil Mammals
• Ancient Seas
• Ice Age
• Living Fossils
• Reptiles
• Discovery Room
• Naturalist Center
• Western Cultures
• African Voices
• South America: Continent and Culture
• Asian Cultures
• Native Cultures of the Americas
National Portrait Gallery • Galleries of Notable Americans, Second Floor
• Forming an American Culture 1760-1860 (South Corridor)
• Industry, Change and Reform 1870-1915 (#211)
• Exploration and Discovery (#218)
National Zoological Park • Bird House
• Cheetah Conservation Station
• Prairie
• Giant Panda
• Large Mammal House
• Small Mammal House
• Think Tank
• Great Cats
• Milk & Mothering
• Amazonia Science Gallery
Motions and forces
National Air & Space Museum • How Things Fly
Energy
National Zoological Park • Amazonia Science Gallery
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Personal health
National Museum of American History • Science in American Life
Populations, resources, and environments
National Museum of Natural History • Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals
• Western Cultures
• Pacific Cultures
• Native Culture of the Americas
• South America: Continent and Culture
• African Voices
National Postal Museum • Artistic License:The Duck Stamp Story
• Binding the Nation
National Zoological Park • Wetlands
• Prairie
• Amazonia
• Amazonia Science Gallery
Resources
National Museum of American History • Science in American Life
National Museum of Natural History • Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals
National Zoological Park • Wetlands
• Prairie
• Amazonia
• Amazonia Science Gallery
Changes in environment
National Museum of American History • Science in American Life
National Museum of Natural History • Early Life
• Fossil Plants
• Dinosaurs
• Fossil Mammals
• Ancient Seas
• Ice Age
National Zoological Park • Wetlands
• Prairie
• Amazonia
• Amazonia Science Gallery
Science and technology in society
National Museum of American History • Engines of Change
• Information Age
• Material World
• On Time
• Science in American Life
National Postal Museum • Customers and Communities
National Zoological Park • Think Tank
• Amazonia Science Gallery

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