Education at AMNH

More than 60 live squamates (lizards) return to the museum.

Courses for NYC high school students looking for museum career opportunities.

Hands-on exploration and behind-the-scenes adventure for middle schoolers.

Explore how to connect museum resources to standards and core curricula in a series of one-day workshops.

An interactive, hands-on space to explore the wonders of the Museum.

Grades K-2: A hands-on exploration of science and inquiry.

Science and cultural programs for English Language Learner teachers, students, and families.

An introduction to the Museum's internship programs.

Improving the quality of education for NYC school children.

The Gilder Graduate School currently offers a PhD in Comparative Biology and offers numerous fellowship opportunities to graduate students at collaborating institutions.

Day, evening, and weekend programs designed to support in-school curriculum goals.

Grades 8-12: Middle and high school laboratory experience in comparative genomics.

An engaging opportunity for high school students to work in the Museum's halls.

Classes for young children and their parents about the wonder of science and nature.

In-depth scientific research training for high school students.

Program designed to support NYC middle school student investigations.

NYC high school students are invited to explore their future!

Lehman College - Fall 2009

Bring the Moveable Museum to your community library.

This program brings the Moveable Museum to schools in New York City.

The Moveable Museum offers two programs in paleontology, depending on students' grade level.

School of Visual Arts - Fall 2009

Along with students from her Pennsylvania high school and a high school in Scotland, this 11th-grader spent three weeks doing fieldwork in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. See her "Bio Group" findings.

Get tips for teaching the complex subject of genomics to high school students—everything from dealing with the lack of national standards to integrating the subject across the curriculum.

Have you ever gotten lost in a new place? Chances are you used a map to find your way. Archaeologists use maps to find their way around an excavation site—but first they have to draw them.

Dinosaurs all belong to the same group, but within that group there are many subsets—meat-eating dinosaurs, four-legged dinosaurs, and so on. Try your hand at classification with these eight dinosaur illustrations.

How can mud be dangerous? Can water break rocks? And how could a dead tree stump become as hard as a rock? Find these answers and more in this Web site created by kids, for kids.