University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Francais Interactif
This full-featured interactive textbook encounter utilizes French speakers in real life scenarios. Well structured for work on grammatical concepts (links to Tex's French Grammar), vocabulary, listening comprehension and exposure to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Covered Ritual Wine Vessel (Gong)
View an object (gong) from the Zhou Dynasty and read about its cultural importance.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Then and Now Life in Early America
Select from lesson plans that challenge students to compare everyday objects from colonial times to present day objects. Links to sites with photos and other primary sources will assist students in their comparison.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: Collections
Search the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, which include a representative sample of this Smithsonian Institution's object and historic photo collections.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Renaissance and Baroque Art
Art of the Baroque period of the 17th century embodied a dynamic energy that mirrored the restless spirit of its age. In painting, dramatic images of faith driven by the Catholic Church's Counter-Reformation contrast with lively...
Other
Teaching and Learning Through Chicago Collections: The Civil War in Art
This website allows us to explore a wide range of images and objects that depict or relate to the war between the Union and the Confederacy-the most deadly war in the history of the United States. Artists tried to depict the war using a...
Library of Congress
World Digital Library
This multicultural digital library delivers a vast collection of various primary sources from all over the world to enhance studies in all areas.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Keeping the Faith: Judaica From the Aron Museum
The Aron Museum is a museum of Jewish ceremonial objects. The collection is on display here along with descriptions of Jewish holidays and traditions and how the objects are used.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Grow Fungi That Fires at Light Sources
In this science fair project, grow a culture of Pilobolus fungus and experiment with its ability to shoot spore sacs at light sources. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
Other
Ethnological Museum: Native Americans of California
Part of a larger exhibition about Native Americans, this page gives visitors an up-close look at several objects produced by the Hupa, the Chumash, and the Pomo, Native Americans of California. The objects demonstrate their...
Other
Buddhist Artifacts the Support of Spiritual Realization
A site by Tulku Thondup explaining the significance of Buddhist art in Tibet. This is an excerpt from a talk given at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1990. The basis is how the Buddhist devotees in Tibet use religious objects as tools...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
This fascinating and unique prehistoric sculpture of a dog-like animal was discovered accidentally in 1870 in Tequixquiac, Mexicocan. Anthropologists are not certain of this object's original meaning for either the artist or the people...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Medici Collect the Americas
Across Europe, many powerful individuals sought to acquire objects taken from the Americas, as a way to know the unknown, to exert some control over the colonial processes underway, and to possess exotic and rare things. The Medici...
Other
Mac Cleay Museum
This site features many links to the museum. Find out about its history, exhibits, staff, school programs, etc. Click on "exhibitions", then "search the collection" to view photographs held at the MacCleay Museum.
PBS
Pbs Kids Design Squad: Power Up!
Engineers work on many different kinds of projects and some even design video games! The coolest part about being an engineer is that they look at normal everyday objects in new and creative ways.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African Art: Big and Small Are Tricky
An exhibition that uses African art to explain the concepts of bigness and smallness. In the world of art, big and small can refer not only to physical size but to relative size, to the impression an object makes, or to the largeness of...
Other
Illinois State Museum: At Home in the Heartland Online
Exhibit about family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present lets visitors experience the kinds of changes that an environment can undergo over several hundred years. Uses historical narratives, images of objects, timelines, maps, and...
Brown University
Brown University Library: Lincolniana at Brown: Lincoln Broadsides
Showcases an extensive collection of advertisements, posters, maps, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous objects that document President Abraham Lincoln's place in American culture.
Other
Center for Educational Resources: Sky Paths
Lesson activities where students observe and describe the movements of objects in the sky in both daytime and nighttime. They learn how early cultures regarded the skies, and the stories they told about them. Students will be given the...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Genre: History
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources will help you determine if Shakespeare's historical plays were accurate or more political and cultural statements about the times he lived in. They include videos, articles,...
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Seattle Art Museum
The 23,000 objects in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum represent ancient to modern cultures. Areas include Asian Art, African Art, Northwest Coast Native American art, modern art, European painting, and decorative arts.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Keru Vessel
A keru is a ceremonial Andean beaker that was an important part of Inka culture prior to the arrival of the Spaniards. The designs on these objects provides us with insights into a complex and fascinating society. View pictures of kerus...
British Library
British Library: International Dunhuang Project
This area is designed for students learning about Silk Road people, culture, history, art, religion and language. Nowadays, we know much about life on the Silk Road thanks to archaeologists and explorers. The objects people leave behind...
Smithsonian Institution
Freer | Sackler Galleries: Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires
Two thousand years before today's "global economy," an exchange network linked the continent of Asia via the Silk Route. Between the first and eighth centuries of the common era, the empires and states of Asia often came into conflict as...