Brian Ausland
Director of Education & Research
One Learning Community
Language Arts And English, Social Studies, Career and Tech Ed
Brian works at One Learning Community as the Director of Education. As a former member of the core design and development team for the Smithsonian Learning Lab, he loves using and sharing this incredible platform, with large communities of educators through work with various State Education Agencies, districts, and national projects. Brian and his team hopes everyone has as much fun using this site as they did coordinating with Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access staff on its research, development, and support.
Brian Ausland's collections
Space Suit Design Challenge
<p>This Learning Collection was developed to guide students in exploring the evolution of space suit design as a lead-in to NASA's recent Space Suit Design challenge. This is also being used as an example to showcase some of the features Smithsonian has added to their Learning Lab to allow educators the tools necessary to use open Smithsonian resources along with external materials to create digital learning experiences. <br /></p><p><br /></p>
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STEM Learning Collections
<p>This is actually a collection ALMOST entirely made up of STEM Learning Collections. We will examine the first 7 resources just to get a sense of the types of resources contained within the Smithsonian Learning Lab, and share some potential STEM applications and adaptations for each as part of our discussion. Then you can explore and select from the remaining 20+ full collections to find those you'd like to copy for your own use. Happy STEM hunting!</p>
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Space Suit History Lesson and Design Challenge
<p>This Learning Collection was developed to guide students in exploring the evolution of space suit design as a lead-in to NASA's recent Space Suit Design challenge. This is also being used as an example to showcase some of the features Smithsonian has added to their Learning Lab to allow educators the tools necessary to use open Smithsonian resources along with external materials to create digital learning experiences. <br></p>
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs
What are hieroglyphs? What was the purpose? Who could write them? How did we discover how to read them?
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Behind Lock and Key
A collection of locks and keys from various times and cultures.
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“Exploring Connections: How Transcendentalism Influences American Culture Today”
<p>Note to Students: You are about to write an essay that asks you to think about connections between your own experiences and those described by the Transcendentalist authors we've studied in this unit. Before you start your essay, you'll embark on an "Exploring Connections" activity designed to help you think about how Transcendentalist ideas and principles still influence American culture today. You'll explore a series of contemporary "artifacts"--comic strips, songs, videos, and poems--and discuss the ways they seem to be influenced by (or connected to) Transcendentalist ideas, values, and beliefs.</p>
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3D-Printing and Scanning
A collection of 3D printing and scanning applications from the Smithsonian.
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The California State Parks - Guided Journey Through the Learning Lab
<p>Let's take a journey to see what the Smithsonian has for you and your students. We will use this as a FRIENDLY challenge, and as a way to explore the types of diverse resources and features found in the Learning Lab.</p>
Brian Ausland
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What Can Boys and Girls Club Find and Do in the Learning Lab?
Let's take a journey to see what the Smithsonian has for you and your students. We will use this as a FRIENDLY challenge, and as a way to explore the types of diverse resources and features found in the Learning Lab.
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Collection of Art, Media, Design, and Entertainment Collections
<p>This collection was developed for the Arts, Media, and Entertainment 2017 Leadership Conference in California. Enjoy.</p>
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AME 2017 - Art, Media, & Entertainment Learning Collections
<p>This is a collection of other complete learning collections that includes a wide range of topics and resources and artifacts on Art, Media, Design, and Entertainment.</p>
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Lord of the Flies - How and Why?
<p>A perspective on how and why savagery and disorder take over the boys in our story, and the warning author William Golding wanted to deliver through this tale to the rest of the world.</p>
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California Parks Learning Activity
<p>This collection is for an activity with California State Parks leadership teams. Teams will use a somewhat random series of resources found within this Smithsonian collection to see if they can create an educational theme/context using at least 3-5 of the resources. #CalParks</p>
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Examining the Transcontinental Railroad - Nn
<p>Railroads started well before 1869, but it was not until that year that the nation was bound together by a commitment to build the first transcontinental system. On May 10, 1869, the driving of a golden spike, signaled the ceremonial end to a process that had been going on for 6 years of construction, engineering, and human toil. Two companies, one starting in Omaha, Nebraska and the other in Sacramento, California competed to lay track towards each other to join the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads. Their reward for each mile was government money and lots of it. By the time that they met at Promontory Summit, Utah, vast sums of money and untold human labor and sacrifice had been expended on this incredible technical endeavor. A single track united the continent's Wester and Eastern regions. Travel from East to West used to take months by wagon train, could now be measured in mere days. This collection utilizes Primary Source student review strategies from the Library of Congress' <a href="http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html" target="_blank">Primary Source Analysis Tools</a>. </p>
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Been Caught Stealing - A Digital High School English Unit
<p>This learning collection examines what is means to steal. The concept of stealing ranges from music sampling to cultural appropriations from people trying to stop basic theft of packages on their porches. What does it mean to steal an election? What does it mean to steal someone's heart? What does it mean when Bob Dylan sings, "Steal a little and they'll put you in jail, steal a lot and they'll make you king."<strong> </strong><br><br><br></p>
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President Lincoln: Casualty of War?
<p>In lessons in this issue of <em>Smithsonian in Your Classroom, </em>portraits of Lincoln introduce a study of the Civil War. An analysis of the portraits—including the famous “cracked-plate" photograph, two plaster “life masks," and an eyewitness drawing of Lincoln's arrival in the enemy capital of Richmond, Virginia—leads to an analysis of the times.</p>
<p>Click on the PDF icons to download the issue and larger images of the portraits.</p>
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My Race to Space Collection
<p>Take this collection, and make it your own by finding at least 5-10 more "space" objects and artifacts. </p>
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Travers - The Rise of Industrialism
<p>This collection is an adaptation of a presentation on Industrialization that introduces students to the forces and concepts related to England (and other European countries) transition from pre-industrial to industrial societies. </p>
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