Education Resources

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a rectangle and a triangle! The National Air and Space Museum shows us how to find all our favorite shapes within a rocket! Then create your own colorful rocket out of cut-paper shapes.

This playful experiment brings color mixing to life as children learn how flamingos get their pink feathers!

This playful experiment brings color mixing to life as children learn how flamingos get their pink feathers!

Join Pinky and Nick for a Smithsonian shape hunt! Print out the included magnifying glasses and help them find different shapes at six Smithsonian museums.

Join keeper Lauren and Pinky Jackalope as they introduce you to the Western lowland gorilla family at the National Zoo! With six gorillas living together, each one has an important job that helps keep their family happy, healthy, and strong.

Did you know that dogs not only help people as loving friends and pets, but they also help firefighters? In this storybook, you’ll explore the history of dogs working alongside firefighters and learn about the community helper roles they perform today.

Community helpers are people who do important jobs to keep communities safe, healthy, and running smoothly. Here at the National Zoo and the Smithsonian, there are many different kinds of community helpers who keep all the animals and the museums safe and sound. In this video, discover a few of those community helpers and get a glimpse of the work they do often behind the scenes.

This resource explores what community helpers are and how animals, specifically Naked mole-rats, live together in community groups, just like we do! The activities, videos, read-aloud suggestions, and conversation starters can help deepen community helper units

Have you ever wondered why Naked mole-rats look the way they do? Or what a Naked mole-rat family structure, or colony, is like? With the help of Keeper Mimi and Pinky Jackalope, discover more about these hairless creatures and how they are great examples of community helpers!