Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Polarized Light Mosaic
Learn how to make stained glass window art using the phenomenon of polarized light.
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Paper Mosaics
A unique combination of origami paper folding and mathematical tessellations create these stunning works of art. Definitely not for the beginning paper folder to try! Site includes printable patterns.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Mosaic America: Civil Rights Movement
A lesson unit designed to outline the civil rights movement as seen through the eyes of African Americans, Chicanos, and Native Americans.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Black History and Culture
Online version of a Library of Congress exhibit, covering information about black history, including colonization, abolition, migrations, and the WPA. It is multimedia and contains hundreds of primary source documents.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Western Migration and Homesteading
Contains text and photos on the African-American exodus to the West. Includes primary source documents and maps from the era.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Wpa
A short description with primary source examples of the aid African American artists received from the WPA.
BBC
Bbc: Crushing Iraq's Human Mosaic
An insightful look at the troubling fate of small minority groups in Iraq often overlooked by the world. Includes e-mailed comments from members of Iraqi minority groups. (July, 2007)
United Nations
Unesco: Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
This World Heritage website features Ravenna in Italy, which was the center of the Roman Empire at one point, and later of the Byzantine Empire in Italy. Presented on this website are eight Christian buildings, and their mosaics, from...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Membrane Proteins
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Activity explores proteins in the plasma membrane describing their structure and function. The Fluid Mosaic Model is also summarized.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Notes: Travels in America, 1750 1920
Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920....
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Marlene Epp, "Narrating the Canadian Mosaic: Immigration and Ethnicity"
This article focuses on Canada's efforts to create a series of booklets about the immigration for each ethnic group in Canada. Thus far they have completed 34 booklets. They have 200 different ethnic groups in Canada.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Mosaic of Two Men Wrestling
The square mosaic portrays two naked men, one white and one black, wrestling. The mosaic illustrates the Alexandrian lifestyle during the first three centuries BC and is distinguished by its strong expression.
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Eternal Egypt: Plaque of Marble Mosaic
A plaque consisting of small pieces of marble mosaic has a drawing of geometric units in which white and blue marble pieces were used.
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Eternal Egypt: Mosaic of Berenice the Second
The mosaic represents a portrait of Queen Berenice the Second, wife of Ptolemy the Third. She is shown with the prow of a ship on her head to symbolize the dynasty's naval power.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Mosaic of the River God Alpheus
The colored mosaic shows a scene inspired by Greek mythology, the story of the river god Alpheus who pursued the nymph Arethusa to Syracuse in Sicily.
Curated OER
A View on Cities: Antwerp: Dead Skull' Mosaic
'Dead Skull' mosaic at the Hanzestedeplaats near the MAS. (Antwerp)
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A View on Cities: Budapest: Art Nouveau Mosaic 'Our Lady of Hungary'
Art Nouveau Mosaic 'Our Lady of Hungary', Szervita ter (Budapest)
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A View on Cities: Vienna: Mosaic Roof of the Stephansdom
Mosaic roof of the Stephansdom (Vienna)
Curated OER
A View on Cities: Barcelona: Miro Mosaic at the Rambla
Miro Mosaic at the Rambla (Barcelona)
Curated OER
A View on Cities: Philadelphia: Dream Garden Mosaic
Dream Garden Mosaic, Curtis Center (Philadelphia)
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Roman Mosaics
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Roman Mosaics."
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Wendell Meredith Stanley Nobel Lecture
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can download and read Wendell Meredith Stanley's Nobel Lecture, entitled "The isolation and properties of crystalline tobacco mosaic virus." Lecture is available in PDF format.
Other
Thocp: Marc Andreesen
This resource, a thorough biography of Marc Andreessen, discusses his childhood love of computers and programming, his creation of the Mosaic Internet Browser while in college, his partnership with Jim Clark in the establishment of...
NASA
Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Mercury From Mariner 10, Degas Crater
Single image mosaic from NSSCD Mariner 10 collection. Shows detail of an impact basin with typical ray structures. Thumbnail image links to large graphic file with more detail.
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