The Exhibition Program provides valuable learning and teaching resources for teachers and students. The interdisciplinary topics — history, science, medicine, technology, and art — that comprise each exhibition promote self-directed and experiential learning. In addition, teaching opportunities exist online and onsite as described below.
For Teachers and Students
Onsite Visits
Guided Tours can be arranged for a variety of groups including schools and educational institutions, community organizations, and associations. Tours last approximately 30 minutes to an hour and provide an interpretive framework for exploration of the exhibition.
Young people touring the exhibitionEducation Programs are organized for groups who are able to spend more than one hour visiting the National Library of Medicine. In addition to a guided tour of the exhibition, Exhibition Program Staff work with other areas of the Library to provide tailor-made educational experiences that include presentations about:
- overview of the National Library of Medicine resources
- bioinformatic resources
- careers in science and medicine paper conservation
- treasures in the History of Medicine Division
- Visible Human Project
The presentations are selected based on the group's interest, availability of presenters, and the duration of the visit.
For more information please contact the exhibition educator:
Jiwon Kim
kimj1@mail.nih.gov
(301) 496-5963Online
Online exhibitions provide K-12 educational materials, such as lesson plans, learning games, and career information related to exhibition topics. These online K-12 educational resources offer a variety of learning opportunities that support multi-disciplinary instructions and diverse learning styles.
The Exhibition Program: Educational Resources on the Web brochure lists the K-12 educational resources developed by the Exhibition Program as well as others at the National Library of Medicine.
The Exhibition Program also offers the following additional resources related to traveling exhibition and a selection of the digitized items from the NLM History of Medicine Division's collections:
- Healing Elements: A Native Hawaiian Perspective is a higher education module authored by Dr. Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor, Professor and founding member of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, is a historian of Hawai'i and the Pacific. The module examines Native Hawaiian concepts of health and healing in general and through case studies. It also explores complementary medical practices employed by Native Hawaiians which are rooted in traditional practices.
- Disseminating Health Knowledge: Public Health Campaigns in 20th-Century China is a module developed for undergraduate and graduate courses where students examine why modern health knowledge was disseminated to the general population of China over the 20th century. The module incorporates as class materials various visual primary sources—i.e., Chinese public health posters that are part of the History of Medicine Division collection at the National Library of Medicine. This module is authored by Liping Bu, Ph.D., professor of history at Alma College, who teaches modern China and international relations. Dr. Bu has served as a curator of several online exhibitions that feature selections from the National Library Medicine’s Chinese health poster collection.
- China's Hygiene Education for Children during 1950s and Mobilizing People: Public Health Campaigns in China are middle- and high-school Chinese language lesson plans, respectively, written by Pu-mei Leng, Chinese teacher at the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. The former is a beginning level class for middle school students who are in first year Chinese language class. The latter is an upper level class for high school students who have taken three or more years of Chinese language classes. Both lessons use several Chinese public health posters from latter part of the 1900s and early 2000 as primary sources.
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