New York Transit Museum - Teacher Resource Center

The New York Transit Museum's Education Station web site includes a series of online activities that relate to the Museum's unique transit-related collection. Check back often to experience new featured activities. Click any image below to start exploring. 

All of these resources can be found at the main Education Station and are available at any time for anyone visiting the web.  The items listed below are provided for your convenience as an educator, but we encourage you to link directly to the non-teacher area of the site when sharing these resources with your learners.

Online Resources for Teachers

Audio and visual tours of select Museum exhibits.      Experience what a difference a day makes in the life of a New York City bus.      Hear from the people that keep New York City's buses running.       Links to other transit-related web resources, lessons and activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Online Resources for Learners

Object Corner:       Explore historic forms of fare collection, up close.     Examine a subway map that guided passengers in 1938.   Take a close look at one of the subway's beautiful ceramics.   Look at a precursor to electrifed surface transportation.     Games & Activities:       Design and print your own mosaic masterpiece.     Play classic concentration games with historical items.     Try your hand (and mouse) at unscrambling an historic map.     Write a poem about public transportation using online "refrigerator magnets".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education Station is made possible in part  thanks to the generous support of the following sponsors: