This article describes online artifact collections available through the Arctic Studies Center, a part of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The collection includes artifacts and background information about the peoples of Alaska and Northeast Siberia.

In this lesson, students identify visual patterns in everyday school settings and decide how to use them for problem solving. Later, students create and analyze playful patterns of their own to solve simple problems.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explore how to use fossils and artifacts (scientific clues) to learn about the polar regions' past. Targeted literacy skills include making inferences, and using context clues to define new vocabulary.

Students will list three or more types of evidence of prehistoric cultures that encouraged archaeologists to investigate the marshes around the Great Salt Lake. Students will also explain why it is important not to disturb archaeological remains.

After learning about the Fremont people, students will make their own Fremont-Style pottery.

Sunken Treasure, written and illustrated by Gail Gibbons. Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha, a Spanish galleon sunk off the coast of Florida in a hurricane in 1662.

Sunken Treasure, written and illustrated by Gail Gibbons. Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha, a Spanish galleon sunk off the coast of Florida in a hurricane in 1662.

Sunken Treasure, written and illustrated by Gail Gibbons. Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha, a Spanish galleon sunk off the coast of Florida in a hurricane in 1662.

Sunken Treasure, written and illustrated by Gail Gibbons. Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha, a Spanish galleon sunk off the coast of Florida in a hurricane in 1662.

Sunken Treasure, written and illustrated by Gail Gibbons. Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha, a Spanish galleon sunk off the coast of Florida in a hurricane in 1662.

Students will list three or more types of evidence of prehistoric cultures that encouraged archaeologists to investigate the marshes around the Great Salt Lake. Students will also explain why it is important not to disturb archaeological remains.

This article provides links to interactive web sites and lesson plans for teaching about paleontology, dinosaurs, and archaeology in the elementary classroom.