US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Why Are Wetlands Important?
Find out why wetlands provide natural water quality, flood protection, erosion control, recreation and aesthetic appreciation, and natural products.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: To Heat or Not to Heat?
Students are introduced to various types of energy with a focus on thermal energy and types of heat transfer as they are challenged to design a better travel thermos that is cost efficient, aesthetically pleasing and meets the design...
ArgentinaXplora.com
Argentinaexplora.com: Arte Amerindio Del Noroeste Argentino
Spanish content; this is an academic article about the aesthetics and worldvision as represented in the art of native americans from the Northeast of Argentina.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Use of Stylistic a Rhetorical Details
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we read....
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University of Montana: Wilderness Connect: Benefits of Wilderness
On this comprehensive site, the important values and benefits of wilderness are examined. The topics covered include: ecological benefits; economic benefits; education; geological value; history and culture; recreation; scenic and...
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University of Cincinnati: Project Step: Build a Bridge
In this two-period lesson, students work in teams to focus on the real-world application of bridge design and construction based on capacity, cost, and aesthetics.
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Lesson: Representing Ourselves Online
In this lesson, students talk about dressing up and taking on identities that are similar to or different from them. They are then introduced to the idea of avatars as a kind of "dressing up" inside video games and consider the ways in...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ecology at Work
Students learn how rooftop gardens help the environment and the lives of people, especially in urban areas. They gain an understanding of how plants reduce the urban heat island effect, improve air quality, provide agriculture space,...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology
All course materials, readings, etc. for an undergraduate MIT course taught in 2004.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: How to Appreciate a Painting
Christine A. Elmore's curriculum unit designed "to facilitate her third-graders' enjoyment of and response to fine art." This unit can be applied to all age groups and provides an extensive background on art in general.
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California State University: "Art" by Clive Bell
The California State University provides an essay from the book "Art," originally published in 1914. There are discussion questions and links added by Julie C. Van Camp. The Formalist concepts of art by Clive Bell is thouroughly discussed.
Arizona State University
Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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Delaware Art Museum: Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood
Resources on the history of the brotherhood, along with its aims, interests, artists, and offshoots, from the museum that houses the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art outside of England.
Northwestern University
Northwestern University Library: Hogarth and Eighteenth Century Print Culture
Browse this large collection of Hogarth's prints to find examples of all of his favorite subjects, including eighteenth-century views of London.
Yale University
Yale the Maya Culture of Mesoamerica
This lesson plan unit on Mayan culture focuses on Mayan art. It can be adapted to various grades and features classroom activities, student resources, a bibliography, and the like.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: The Stuff of Life: u.s. Design 1975 2000
PBS profiles the exhibit at the Denver Art Museum about how design is relevant in our society. There are interviews, images, and video--enough for developing your own lesson plan.
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Univ. Of Oregon: Writing for Multimedia: Storytelling: Image, Video, Audio [Ppt]
A PowerPoint presentation on how to communicate a message using image, video, and sound techniques as described by Herbert Zettl. Includes images and links to video examples.
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Curriki: "Beautiful Art" Cultural Diffusion
This lesson is designed to give learners a conceptual understanding of cultural diffusion and the notion that ideas change people and people change ideas. It involves a teacher demonstration, student role-play, and an activity that...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Writing, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
Articles that examine the goals of black literature. It primarily focuses on the advent of the New Negro Movement and critics assertion that black writing should abandon its explicit social and political purposes in favor of more...
Princeton University
Princeton University Art Museum: Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven
From the Princeton University Art Museum, this page looka at the a large postclassic Nahua ceramic effigy censer preserved in the museum collections. "Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven" examines this effigy censer from all angles of it's...
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Atelier Saint Andre: Byzantine Iconographers
This site reveals the work of a living community of Byzantine iconographers--artists who create relgious paintings for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Features background information on their traditions, aesthetics, and techniques.
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California State University: Poetics by Aristotle
Text of Aristotle's influential work on aesthetic questions. Includes a link to good discussion questions.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Many Meanings of Michelangelo's Statue of David
We typically experience classic works of art in a museum, stripped of their original contexts, but that serene setting can belie a tumultuous history. Take Michelangelo's statue of David: devised as a religious symbol, adopted as a...
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Jacques Maritain
Presents the life and thought of the notable 20th century Thomist, Jacques Maritain. Discusses his epistemology, aesthetics, and social thought, and evaluates his contemporary influence.
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