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Amon Carter Museum: Texas Bird's Eye Views
A fascinating collection of fifty-nine bird's-eye view maps of Texas in the 1800s, covering forty-four cities in all. These maps were created by artists and provide historical records that would otherwise not exist. Each map is...
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: The Truth About a Bird's Eye View
An article about the eyes and sight of different animals including flies, dogs, color vision, and night vision.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 4: A Bird's Eye View: Exploring Your Region
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visualizations. In this lab, students will investigate their region by using Google Earth and predicting what...
California State University
A Bird's Eye View
With this lesson plan students will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Birdseye View, Mapping
Lesson that helps students understand that maps show a "birds-eye view" of a place. Students stand above a teacher-made model and discuss how the objects in the model looked from above. Then students draw objects from a birds-eye view,...
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Texas Bird's Eye Views: Riding the Rails Across Texas
For this lesson, students will discover the benefits and drawbacks of railroads and understand the railroad's importance to Texas cities and American life.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Bird's Eye View of the Desert Food Chain
Describes how a food chain works in a desert and how the Mojave desert food chain works in particular.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Traveling Above, Looking Below
Try drawing something from a bird's-eye view and change your usual perspective of that object. Relates this drawing-from-above concept to artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Bird's Eye View of the Huis Ter Nieuburch at Rijswijck
An image of "Bird's-Eye View of the Huis ter Nieuburch at Rijswijck", created by Pieter Schenck in 1697 (Engraving, 164 x 198 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Bird's Eye View of the Liechtenstein Garden Palace
An image of "Bird's-eye view of the Liechtenstein Garden Palace", created by Salomon Kleiner in 1732 (Engraving).
PBS
Pbs: Nature: Raptor Force
Online companion of a Nature documentary about birds of prey, their sense of sight, and their powers of locomotion. Includes a game, Raptor Vision, that lets players see the world through the eyes of a raptor.
NASA
Nasa: Aerial Photography: The Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon
An animated adventure story, developed by NASA, that helps children understand earth science concepts by using satellite photography and other types of aerial photographs to identify physical features on the surface of the earth. Teaches...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Washington d.c. Became the Capital July 16, 1790
A brief summary of the design of Washington D.C. by Pierre-Charles L'Enfant. View the capital building with a bird's eye view from present day and from 1871, with the painting and photo on this site.
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Amon Carter Museum: Landmarks Over Time
Students will compare bird's-eye views of Texas cities in the 1800's to those in the 2000's by identifying landmarks and summarize how the cities have changed over time.
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Amon Carter Museum: Bound for Texas
Students will explore factors that motivated immigrants to move to certain Texas cities by locating features on Texas bird's eye views. They will then complete an art project from a townperson's perspective and/or a writing project from...
Curated OER
New York Times: Above It All in Alaska
Get a birds' eye view of the great state of Alaska presented in this spectacular slideshow by the New York Times.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: River Thames, England
This photo shows a high altitude, bird's eye view of the River Thames, one of the most famous rivers in the world. The River Thames flows through London and the southern part of England and is around 346 kilometres (215 miles) in length....
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Football (Soccer) Field
This image shows a birds eye view of a regulation football (soccer field) with white markings to show the important areas such as the halfway line and penalty areas.
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Chicago Historical Society: Alexander Hesler Climbs the Court House
This resource provides pictures of Chicago from the roof tops.
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