The Smithsonian Learning Lab makes it possible for educators to search, annotate, share, and create learning resources based on the museum's rich digital material, consisting of more than a million images, recordings, and texts. Search results are displayed visually to make quick selection easy. There is also a series of minute-long videos that outline how to search, adapt, create, customize, and share creations. Almost 1,200 collections created by participants and Smithsonian education and outreach staff are browsable in the Learning Lab Collections category, on topics ranging from "Innovations in Coffee Cup Lids" to "What Makes a First Lady?" to "Origami Cranes." Anyone can search; sign up for an account to use more advanced features of Learning Lab, such as saving and publishing collections, using the question function to associate questions with an artifact, and assigning topic, age and grade level, or type of student activity tags to a collection.
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