APS at Home brings activities and crafts from the APS into your homes and classrooms. From coloring sheets to at home experiments, the Education department will continue to update this page with fun and useful downloads for those of all ages. Featured here is our Color our Collections series which has a variety of coloring sheets from our digital library that range from Peale's Mastodon to Buzz Aldrin during the moon landing! 

Featured Activity: Color Our Collections

People of all ages love coloring as a wind-down or learning activity. Take some time to color in these downloadable pages made from items in the APS collections. When you're done, be sure to share our creation with us via social media!
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APS Classroom Resources are fun and engaging activities to incorporate into your classroom. They include lesson plans, modules, experiments, and more that highlight primary sources found in APS’s collections. Our lesson plans and modules are inquiry-based and align with Common Core standards.

Featured Resource: Interrogating the Sources: Women in the Revolution

Pair this learning activity (download to the right) with the short educational film "Julia Stockton Rush: Love and Family Amid War" to explore how primary sources, such as Julia Stockton Rush's letters, provide us with a better understanding of the era of the American Revolution.

Visiting Independence Hall or another Old City institution with your students?  Include a tour at the APS museum or library as part of your field trip. We offer engaging tours of our current exhibition as well as opportunities to view some of our collections not on display. Click here to learn more.

Not able to come to us?  We can virtually come to you through our virtual tour program.