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Ontario Council for Technology Education: Sensory Garden Design [Pdf]
In this project, learners will design a sensory garden. The area to be designed is for a flower bed 3' wide, 5' long and 3' high. The design must be wheelchair-accessible from all sides. Students will research the different sensory...
Geffrye Museum
Geffrye Museum: Design a Garden
Landscape architecture and design take a lot of planning and preparation. Give it your best shot and design a garden of your own.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
Embrace nature when considering architectural design to bring the two together. Prof. Jan Wampler provides several resources including video clips.
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Ameican Society of Landscape Architects
Holds lots of information on landscape architecture. It has information about everything from upcoming landscape arcitecture events to information about the career.
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Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
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American Society of Landscape Architects: Green Roof
An interactive experience showcases environmental and economic benefits of a green roof. Take a virtual tour of a real green roof and learn about a career in landscape architecture. Downloadable workbook is available for students, while...
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum: Brushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit, a description of the show and sections with audio clips,...
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas
State Energy Conservation Office: Passive Solar Design for Homes [Pdf]
Discusses different features that can be incorporated into a home's design in order to harness solar energy.
Read Works
Read Works: Forms of Art Landscape Paintings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a descriptive pieces for the artistic product of landscape paintings, their different purposes, and styles of design. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
Library of Congress
Loc: Frank Lloyd Wright Designs for an American Landscape
A site covering Frank Lloyd Wright from 1922-1932. Specific information on how his architecture was designed with the environment in mind. The Exhibition was at the Library of Congress from 1966 until 1997.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum: China Design Now
With this resource, students explore China's coastal cities and experience the country's creative landscape. The cities examined are Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing. The resource consists of pictures, information about the exhibition,...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Art Wonders
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
Museum Network (UK)
Museum Network: Landscapes: Gallery: J. M. W. Turner: Pembroke Castle
Information and analysis about a Turner watercolor, "Pembroke Castle," with discussion questions designed to draw out concepts related to Turner's approach to landscape.
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Miho Museum: Landscape
See the collection of ancient and classical art from both eastern and western traditions, housed in the Miho Museum Museum of Japan, which was designed by I.M. Pei and features an integrated Japanese garden.
Curated OER
Unesco: Spain: Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the...
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National Arbor Day Foundation: Tree Diversity Activity [Pdf]
After teaching your students about a trees' growth characteristics, and landscape functions assess them by having them create a diverse community forest using the worksheets provided. This PDF document requires Adobe Reader.
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Computer Art Using Ms Paint
A site by Diana Hunter, an educator in Indiana. This site uses common software in PCs to introduce the use of computers in making art. There are lessons on design, Tessellations, Butterflies, Piet Mondrian, Landscapes with Spraypaint,...
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: El Modelado Del Paisaje Ii
Throughout this unit you will be able to decipher the clues of the landscape design caused by external geological agents. It contains 15 interactive activities.
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Unesco: Austria: Wachau Cultural Landscape
The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves in an intact and visible form many traces - in terms of architecture, (monasteries, castles, ruins), urban design,...
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Unesco: Brazil: Rio De Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes Between the Mountain and Sea
The site consists of an exceptional urban setting encompassing the key natural elements that have shaped and inspired the development of the city: from the highest points of the Tijuca National Park’s mountains down to the sea. They also...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Trickles Down?
Permeability is the degree to which water or other liquids are able to flow through a material. Different substances such as soil, gravel, sand, and asphalt have varying levels of permeability. In this activity, students will explore...
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Amon Carter Museum: Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness
A website that includes a section designed specifically for teachers and a section specifically for students. Each section will introduce you to the wildlife photography of Eliot Porter and take you through the process of becoming a...
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Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer (Teaching Guide)
This guide provides a sampling of the vast number of photographs taken by Erwin E. Smith (1884?1947). It is designed for use with fourth through seventh grade students and places particular emphasis on social studies and Texas history....
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.
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