<p>Here are six representations in the Smithsonian's collections of the Big Three of angels. Two <br />are St. Gabriel, two are St. Michael, two are St. Raphael. In this game, you’ll try to unite the two<br /> versions of each angel in a folder marked GABRIEL, MICHAEL, or RAPHAEL. If you need hints, you <br />will find information on the conventions of their depiction in art. To go to the game, <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/hint-1/4b5tx81pGnBwKmNo#r/164315">click here</a>.</p> <p>  ↓ If you are an educator, click READ MORE.</p><p><br /></p>

<p>   If you’ve seen one zebra, you’ve seen them all, right? That, it seems, is what nature<br />   wants us to think. Zebras live in herds. What a predator sees in the herd is one mass <br />   of stripes, like a conference of referees on a football field. It may be hard for that <br />   predator—a lion, leopard, cheetah, or hyena—to focus on one individual. <br /></p> <p>   To continue, <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/seen-one-zebra/k2BgdyAW8qjE4sbJ#r">click here</a>.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">The dialogues of Plato are little dramas of ideas, starring his late teacher Socrates, who left no writings of his own. Often we find Socrates and his students grappling with definitions. The long dialogue <em>The Republic,</em> for example, centers on the question <em>What is justice? </em>The conversation sometimes begins with the relationships of various ordinary things that can be called by the same word, such as <em>table </em>or <em>bed. </em>The definition comes down to the “form" in which a thing “participates."</p> <p>Your class might enjoy a brief introduction to what is called Plato's <em>theory of forms </em>or <em>theory of ideas.</em> Along the way you can match wits, not with the philosopher, but with the search engine of this website. A second part of this mini-symposium (minus the wine) looks at Plato the geometry teacher. To begin, <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/platonic-relationships-2/ukvkndxlrnavuwrj#r">click here</a>.<span></span><span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">In Plato's dialogue <em>Meno, </em>Socrates and his friend Meno discuss the question <em>What is virtue? </em>They name a number of men known as virtuous, including the Athenian statesman Pericles, who was held as the very paragon of virtue in the way George Washington was in the early days of our own republic. In the case of Washington, this can be seen in all of the Smithsonian objects below. Horatio Greenough's rather colossal statue is not so much a classically idealized Washington as a classical treatment of a figure considered already ideal in his virtue. In the print to the right, Virtue herself (whoever she is) leaves flowers on Washington's tomb. The "apotheosis" print, to her right, might make us wonder if anyone is lying in that tomb. Washington does not die like a mere mortal but ascends into the heavens—by virtue, we suppose, of his <em>virtue.</em> But to say that Pericles or George Washington is a virtuous man is not to define virtue<em>, </em>is it? <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/platonic-relationships-ii/81DBK01AVvd5J5t9#r">Click</a><span></span>.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">This Smithsonian quiz brings the actual world to bear on the worlds created by filmmakers in the last century or so. The rules are simple. The player looks at a set of museum objects from anywhere around the Smithsonian and tries to answer a question: <em>These Smithsonian things remind me of a movie. Can you guess which one? </em></p> <p>Each question is set up much like what is below. A multiple choice is in the box with the question mark. The answer is in the last box. The movie used for the example here is <em>Casablanca. </em>You know, the one about the fundamental things and their many applications. To take the quiz, <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/profile/188">click here</a>.</p> <p><br /></p>

<p></p> <p>Here are six representations of saints in the Smithsonian’s collections. Two are Jerome, two are John<br />the Evangelist, two are John the Baptist. In this game, you’ll try to unite the two versions of each saint<br />in a folder marked JEROME, JOHN EVANGELIST, or JOHN BAPTIST. If you need hints, you will find<br />information on the saints' lives and the conventions of their depiction in art. To go to the game, <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/hint-1/X3e9cnzYtd1mJU0E#r/186361">click here</a>. <br /></p> <p></p> <p>↓ If you are an educator, click READ MORE.</p> <p><a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/picture-matching-game-saints-by-the-look-of-them/dHMzx1BDAPNwEvbJ#r/160099"><br /></a><br /></p> <p></p> <p></p>

<p>Here are six representations of saints in the Smithsonian’s collections. Two are St. Cecilia, two <br /> are St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and two are the Virgin Mary. In this game, you’ll try to unite the two<br /> versions of each saint in a folder marked CECILIA, ELIZABETH, or MARY. If you need hints, you <br />will find information on the conventions of their depiction in art. To go to the game, <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/hint-1/P6e4NmWohVidpkPr#r/171082">click here</a>.</p> <p>  ↓ If you are an educator, click READ MORE.</p> <p><br /></p>

<p><br /><br />                                            SMITH SONY YAWN. <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/smithsonian-rebus-introduction/2N678fqTAPPBM4nL?newCollection">Click.</a><br /></p>

<br /><p>At the time of this writing, early 2018, the Smithsonian’s <br />National Zoo is home to two adult Sumatran tigers. <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/how-to-tell-a-tiger/mRFHojJfKwRXWXrk#r">Click</a>.</p>

<p>Here are six representations of saints in the Smithsonian’s collections. Two are St. Christopher, two <br />are St. George, and two are St. Roch. In this game, you’ll try to unite the two versions of each saint <br />in a folder marked CHRISTOPHER, GEORGE, or ROCH. If you need hints, you will find information <br />on the saints' lives and the conventions of their depiction in art. To go to the game, <span class="editable-container"><a href="http://learninglab.si.edu/collections/hint-1/dCAFyz6i0iqGrgAY#r/168054">click here</a>.</span></p> <p>  ↓ If you are an educator, click READ MORE.<span class="editable-container"><a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/hint-1/dCAFyz6i0iqGrgAY#r/168054"> <br /><br /></a></span></p>