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Activities & Resources

For K–12 Students, Educators, and Families

We offer a variety of online activities and resources that introduce technological and historical concepts in fun and engaging ways for learners of all ages. 

To explore CHM’s onsite educational workshops and events, please visit Connect. For an overview of onsite and online resources, please visit Activities and Resources.

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At-Home and Classroom Activities and Resources

#MyCHMExhibit Challenge
Innovators Like You
Revolution Virtual Scavenger Hunt, Grades 6–12
Women in Computing History: From Algorithms to Aerospace
Silicon Valley: The Untold Story, Grades 7–12
Design the Future: For Families and the Classroom
CHM Live Discussion Guides

For Families

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Transportation
Communication

Can’t be at the Museum? No problem. Try our Family Activities with a Virtual Tour of Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing.

Exhibit Resources

Virtual Tour of Revolution
Revolution's Greatest Hits Guide
Silicon Valley Guide
Women in Computing Guide

Did you know that many of our current and past exhibits have online counterparts? Visit Exhibits for a complete listing.

We also offer docent-led and self-guided tours, plus special group tours. Visit Public Tours & Group Reservations to learn more. 

CHM On YouTube

CHM Education
CHM Live
Make Software: Change the World! Mini-documentaries

Subscribe to CHM’s YouTube channel to gain access to hundreds of historical videos, educational talks, our CHM Live series, and more!

Explore More From CHM

Collections

CHM stewards the world’s leading collection and archive chronicling the history and impact of computing and technological innovation. Our collecting scope is expansive with unique perspectives into the online world, entrepreneurship, and software.

Timelines

Explore CHM’s informative and engaging timelines to learn something new about key events, people, documents, and artifacts in the history of computing. Access our Timeline of Computing History, This Day in History, and more.

Oral Histories

With over a thousand in-depth interviews and demonstrations, CHM’s oral history collection is one of the most comprehensive on the subjects of computing, technological innovation, web, entrepreneurship, and networking.

Exhibits

Sit in a Waymo self-driving car, learn Photoshop from the pros, experience the sights and sounds of classic computing, try your hand at coding, and discover why computer history is more than 2,000 years old. Discover all this and more in CHM’s onsite and online exhibits.

Blogs

The CHM blog engages and showcases perspectives from our vibrant community. We host media, words, ideas, and insights. We take you behind the scenes of our public and educational programming and our collecting and exhibit efforts.

CHM Events

CHM connects our community to diverse viewpoints and unique perspectives at the intersection of technology and humanity. Our events facilitate dialogue, promote community, stimulate debate, encourage creativity, and further civic discourse.

Exponential Center

The Exponential Center captures the legacy and advances the future of entrepreneurship and innovation in Silicon Valley and around the world. We collect and share the stories of founders and builders of the Digital Age.

Software History Center

The Software History Center collects and preserves historical software, archives, and oral histories. The center explores people-centered stories, documents software-in-action, and leverages the Museum’s rich collections to tell the story of software.

Internet History Program

From MP3 to broken dreams of a “world brain,” the Internet History Program explores our connected world through events, publications, and a comprehensive series of physical and online exhibits.

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