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Environmental Art: Hal Stowers Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A gallery and information about Hal Stowers and his Environmental Art.
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New York Times

New York Times: Robert Smithson: Earth Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An audio slideshow about artist Robert Smithson narrated by New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman. The slideshow, which illustrates many of Smithson's drawings and works of scuplture, including his famous "Spiral Jetty," coincides...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Listing of Environmental Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's list of environmental artists from the 20th century to the present day. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
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Nevada Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The collection of the Nevada Museum of Art emphasizes the themes of the environment and the West, in categories of historical survey, work ethic, the Great Basin, contemporary art, and the altered landscape photographs. Each category is...
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Eco Pics

For Students 9th - 10th
E-com site that sells photos and graphics of Environmental Art. Lots of good examples.
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Webdirectory: The Environmental Directory

For Students 9th - 10th
An environmental search engine. An excellent resource. Learn about agriculture, animals, arts, business, databases, and more.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Art to Teach Environmental Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use art to consider the effects of industrial culture on the environment, and envision how to create a more positive and sustainable future.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
In this lesson, 3rd graders take on the roles of characters in a drama centered on preserving the environment. Students will play different living things that inhabit a forest. They will improvise dialogue and analyze environmental...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Out of the Dust

For Teachers 6th Standards
Focused on the Dust Bowl and how families fought for a meaningful existence and survival, this unit will offer students different perspectives on how people respond to adversity, the lessons that can be learned from hardship and failure,...
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New York Times

New York Times: Earthworks: Robert Smithson's Floating Island

For Students 9th - 10th
An analysis of "Floating Island," a work of Robert Smithson created posthumously. An overview of Smithson's life and work provides context.
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University of Chicago

American Environmental Photographs 1891 1936

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting site that shows early photographs by Henry Chandler Cowles and George Damon Fuller and others. The images range from ecological settings to the consequences of human changes to the environment.
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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty

For Students 9th - 10th
The site for Robert Smithson has everything you wanted to know about the Spiral Jetty and other works by Smithson.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Patterns in Nature

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart shows some of Sir Robert Hitcham's amazing collection of photographs that are on his website. It will stimulate discussion about art in nature.
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Enviromental Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to a few pieces of environmental sculpture.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Hurricanes

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders learn about hurricanes and their impact on Louisiana as well as how historical accounts reflect the culture of Louisiana and give insight into historical events. This set builds on storytelling as a way to transmit...
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Earth Day Network: Conserving Water Through Art [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A lesson challenging students to develop ways to conserve water in their homes after understanding the impact of water scarcity. A promise will be made by each student and a reminder craft created to help them keep the promises.
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Robert Smithson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official site of Robert Smithson who is an artist most known for his earthworks and recognized by his work 'Spiral Jetty.' There is a fantastic collection of his work, interviews, and much more!
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Center for Global Environmental Education: A Thousand Friends of Frogs

For Students 3rd - 8th
An in-depth site about the world of frogs. The site includes teacher, student, science, and research sections. There are plenty of facts and activities.
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Robert Bateman Get to Know Program

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Get to Know Program is devoted to raising the environmental awareness of young people. Robert Bateman, the program's founder, wants children to be able to walk outside their homes and recognize plants and wildlife wherever they live,...
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Shft: Curating the Culture of Today's Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
A platform which identifies and exemplifies ways in which to achieve sustainable living through film, design, art and food.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Recycled Towers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about material reuse by designing and building the strongest and tallest towers they can, using only recycled materials. They follow design constraints and build their towers to withstand earthquake and high wind simulations.
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Circlemakers

For Students 9th - 10th
Now that people have come forward and admitted to making crop circles, we can enjoy them as the true art that they are! Here are some incredible examples of this art. But even the artists themselves want to believe there is something...
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My Science Site

Water Works! One Resource Many Users [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource takes a closer look at water withdrawal and instream use in Canada and compares it to other countries. Incorporates subject areas such as science, social studies, language arts, history, geography, math and environmental...
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My Science Site

Water Vulnerable to Climate Change [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A very extensive unit on climate changes and how they are caused as well as how they can be prevented. Incorporates science, geography, language arts, current events, environmental and social studies. Tests and games included. PDF...

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