PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Hudson River School
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Hudson River School.
British Library
British Library: Coleridge's Kubla Khan: Composition
This activity, which aims to develop students' understanding of 'Kubla Khan' after completing an initial study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, will encourage students to make links between the poem and a number of historical sources.
Curated OER
Narratives of Nationhood: Is This Landscape Your Landscape?
Explore Canadian history, identity, and culture through the art of different Canadian landscape artists including works by Lawren Harris, Kim Ondaatje, and Pudlo Pudlat. Featured are many integrated lesson plans that go with the theme...
Curated OER
Narratives of Nationhood: Is This Landscape Your Landscape?
Explore Canadian history, identity, and culture through the art of different Canadian landscape artists including works by Lawren Harris, Kim Ondaatje, and Pudlo Pudlat. Featured are many integrated lesson plans that go with the theme...
Curated OER
Landscape Drawing
Find a collection of 50 drawings by Leonardo, with detailed descriptions of their historical and cultural context. A zoom-and-explore tool allows you to examine each drawing in close-up.
Curated OER
Young Woman Seated in a Landscape With a Unicorn
Find a collection of 50 drawings by Leonardo, with detailed descriptions of their historical and cultural context. A zoom-and-explore tool allows you to examine each drawing in close-up.
Globe Tracks
Travel for Kids: France
"Paris may be the heart of France, but get out into the countryside, see the landscapes immortalized by the Impressionists for yourself." Here younger students can learn about the geography and culture of France.
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Encyclopedia of Alabama: History: World War Ii and Alabama
Detailed encyclopedia entry describing the economic, political, social, and cultural implications associated with World War II and how it changed the landscape of Alabama.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Roccoco to Realism
From the early 18th to the mid-19th century, dynamic transformations in European art mirrored turbulent political and social changes, including revolutions, imperial conquests, and the emergence of the modern industrial age....
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: Spread of World Religions
This instructional task asks students to explain the impact that religion had on cultural diffusion in the Eastern Hemisphere. It contains a set of authentic source documents. Students engage with the sources to build their understanding...
Curated OER
Unesco: Chile: Rapa Nui National Park
Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and original tradition of monumental...
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Unesco: Croatia: Stari Grad Plain
Stari Grad Plain on the Adriatic island of Hvar is a cultural landscape that has remained practically intact since it was first colonized by Ionian Greeks from Paros in the 4th century BC. The original agricultural activity of this...
Curated OER
Unesco: Syria: Ancient Villages of Northern Syria
Some 40 villages grouped in eight parks situated in north-western Syria provide remarkable testimony to rural life in late Antiquity and during the Byzantine period. Abandoned in the 8th to 10th centuries, the villages, which date from...
Curated OER
Unesco: United Kingdom: Heart of Neolithic Orkney
The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated...
Curated OER
Unesco: Romania: Villages With Fortified Churches in Transylvania
These Transylvanian villages with their fortified churches provide a vivid picture of the cultural landscape of southern Transylvania. The seven villages inscribed, founded by the Transylvanian Saxons, are characterized by a specific...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Edward Hopper
This Ibiblio.org Webmuseum site contains information regarding Edward Hopper's life, influences, and links to images of his work.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: The Chinese New Year
How do people celebrate the Chinese New Year? Come and discover more about this fascinating holiday when you visit this comprehensive resource. This site features historical information, activities, fun facts, and more.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Different Branches of Geography
Learn about the many specializations in the field of geography within its two branches of physical and human geography.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Olmsted and Vaux, Central Park
Harper's Magazine declared in 1862 that Central Park was "the finest work of art ever executed in this country". Read about the history of Central Park, the design process, and view pictures.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Jackson Inauguration (Lesson Plan)
A lesson plan in which students examine the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1828. They discuss how his election signaled changes in the American political landscape and embodied the culture of his era. They also compare the politics of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 20s
With the waning of the Progressive Era, the political landscape of Republican presidents like Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge emphasized business interests.
Other
The Center for Cuban Studies: Cuban Art Space
This site is devoted to telling us what to see and when, rather than showing us examples of Cuban art. However, if you click on "Current Exhibit", you will see the artwork of one Cuban artist.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North China, 1971
" North China includes the densely populated and intensively cultivated North China Plain, the loess-covered uplands of Shansi, northern Shensi, and eastern Kansu, and the sparsely populated, semiarid steppes of Inner Mongolia....
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Unesco: Chile: Churches of Chiloe
The Churches of Chiloe represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture. They represent a tradition initiated by the Jesuit Peripatetic Mission in the 17th and 18th centuries,...