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Utah Education Network

Uen: Art and Culture

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners will study the elements of art and learn how culture, families, environment, and experiences often influence what is depicted in art. Students will study African masks and pop culture art from numerous cultures. To...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the crafts that the African American culture exported from native African lands, basketry and cultivation of rice. With the lessons provided in the downloadable document, students will weave together history, geography, social...
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Other

Asia Art: Chinese Brush Painting

For Students 9th - 10th
This online resource is for an art or social studies teacher looking for ways to explore the fundamentals of Chinese art with their students. The site provides information on techniques, composition, calligraphy, color, and much more. At...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Archaeology Program: The Earliest Americans Theme Study

For Students 11th - 12th
This exhaustive study of Paleo-Indians examines many of the sites where evidence of their occupation is found across the North American continent. This National Park Service study looks at evidence in found in projectile points,...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Decades Mural Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lesson for social studies teachers whose students are studying various decades.
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Other

International Quilt Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln has created a graduate program in Textile History with an emphasis on quilt studies to nurture the appreciation of quilts as an art and for their cultural significance in history. Their International...
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Smart History

Smarthistory: Ancient Egypt, an Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Art History and culture for students studying ancient Egypt provides an introduction from which students develop a framework for understanding the culture and its impact on future cultures.
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Columbia University

The Great Bronze Age of China

For Students 9th - 10th
In depth description of the great bronze age of China. Also includes chronology.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Empire That Was Russia, Photographic Record Recreated

For Students 9th - 10th
The digital revival of the glass plate images of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I by photographer Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Very interesting from both historical and technological points of view.