Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Topographic Map Activity
An activity to practice interpreting contours.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Map Skills
A collection of highly engaging learning modules on various topics within mapping skills. Covers map symbols, how to use four- and six-figure grid references, cardinal directions, distance, contour mapping, and drawing cross-sections....
Goshen College
Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
Goshen College
Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
Other
Swarm Sketch
Each week a new subject and a blank canvas appear. People from around the world are invited to add (a limited contour line) to the in-progress sketch. You can even watch a time-lapse video to see the image's progression.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Examining Topography Stream Discharge Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge
Students problem solve stream discharge by estimating, measuring, and collecting data. Students graph actual contour lines, and use these measurements to hypothesize stream discharge and sediment load from a restored wetland using a dry...
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Serc: Mapping Potato Island
In this hands-on activity, students make a topographic map to describe the shape of a potato. They will gain an understanding of how contour lines are used to describe the shape of the land surface.
City University of New York
Earth and Environmental Sciences: Treasure Hunt
Looking for enrichment? Here's an online treasure hunt requiring skill with directions, distance, contour maps, latitude, and longitude. Also supplementing the activity are interactive quizzes on latitude, longitude, and other related...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Topography of Fruit
This is an attempt to help students understand contour lines in map-making through the vector of digital photography. This hands-on activity will create an art piece out of fruit that will be analyzed to create topographic maps.
Other
The New Children's Museum: Face It
Create a self-portrait using a variety of art techniques and styles by cutting construction paper into facial contour lines.
Quia
Quia: Drawing Activity
This is a terrific set of activities related to art instruction. Includes matching, concentration, flashcards, and a word search. Great for art students looking for a fun way to review vocabulary terms.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Drawing (Lesson Plans)
Forty creative lesson plans on drawing for students of all ages! Each one gives an example, a list of materials, and step-by-step directions. Many of the activities also provide a list of books, vocabulary, extensions, and more!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Visualizing Topography
Explore the topography of a hill, a valley, and a cliff in this interactive activity featuring visualizations of three-dimensional topography in two dimensions. Adapted from Stephen Reynolds' "Visualizing Topography."
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
Other
Creating Music
This online, interactive environment for music creation and exploration includes games and puzzles and interesting activities that teach about music in a visual way.
Arizona State University
Arizona State University: Special Birds
This site from the Arizona State University provides a lesson plan for art or science teachers to introduce the physical parts of a bird, using the artwork of James Audubon. Students create their own artwork using the techniques they...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Map Projections
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to use topographic, bathymetric, and geologic maps.
Goshen College
Bird Ritual
This opening art exercise, although intended to increase art fluency, would be a great motivation for a lesson on Brancusi's "Bird in Space."
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Melody
Learn about one of the basic elements in music, melody. Discover the ideas of melodic shapes and phrases as well as motifs and themes, and how to present these topics to children.
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey: Coal Mining
Easy-to-understand information and a colorful diagram on the underground and surface mining methods used for extracting coal.
Kenyon College
Kenyon College: Soil Erosion
Different types of erosion are discussed along with suggested ways to solve erosion problems on farms in this two-page article.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Complexity and Vision: The Staff God at Chavin De Huantar & Beyond
The artistic style seen in stone sculpture and architectural decoration at the temple site of Chavin de Huantar, in the Andean highlands of Peru, is deliberately complex, confusing, and esoteric. View pictures and descriptions of the...
Goshen College
Shading in Drawing
After contour drawing is mastered this tutorial is great for anyone who is a beginner at shading a drawing. Gives suggestions on how to teach shading with practical ideas.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Getting to the Point
In this lesson, students learn how to determine location by triangulation. We describe the process of triangulation and practice finding your location on a worksheet, in the classroom, and outdoors.
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