History of Fashion Teaching Resources :: 289

Nations Online Project

Nations Online: Bangladesh Country Profile

For Students 9th - 10th

Features a country profile of Bangladesh, background details, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the nation's culture, history, geography, economy, environment, population, news, government, maps, and much more tourism...

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Memorial Hall Museum: Turns of the Century

For Students 9th - 10th

Turns of the Century chronicles three centuries, in side-by-side fashion, of American family life, of Native Americans, of African Americans, of newcomers to America, and of the American landscape.

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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This is the introduction to a unit on Victorian Literature, a period describing the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) as prudish and old fashioned, but is considered by some as a second English Renaissance, a time of wealth, power, and...

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Bata Shoe Museum: All About Shoes: Suffragettes, Sports, and Smoky Nightclubs

For Students 9th - 10th

Illustrated entry in a history-of-shoes exhibit underscores the link between the style of women's footwear and their growing emancipation in 1920s America.

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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Southeastern Pocket Gopher

For Students 4th - 8th

Equipped for a subterranean life, the Southeastern Pocket Gopher's muscular front legs, thick-set front body, massive claws on its front feet, small eyes and ears, and incisors protruding beyond the lips are obvious adaptations to life...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Wearable Computing

For Students 9th - 10th

Take an academic look at wearable computing with this site from MIT. Check out the research currently going on at the institution, including "fashion shows" of various devices. Also contains "A Brief History of Wearable Computing Timeline".

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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Origins of Ballet

For Students 9th - 10th

Can you imagine a party where every movement and every visual detail were governed by a complex system of rules and procedures? For centuries, such rituals were commonplace for European nobility. And while they've gone out of fashion, we...

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Eras of Elegance: The Victorian Era (1837 1901)

For Students 3rd - 8th

Gives an overview of the Victorian era, and information on what distinguishes it from other periods in history. Covers religion and spirituality, advances in science and technology, the arts, fashion, food, sports, and leisure pastimes....

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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Middlel Ages: Clothing

For Students 3rd - 8th

Clear and concise overview of the kinds of clothing worn during the medieval period by different classes of persons: peasants, royalty, clerics.

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Memorial Hall Museum: Dress Up: Clothing From the Past

For Students Pre-K - 1st

Have you ever wondered what people from the 1700's through the 1900's had to wear? With this interactive you have the opportunity to find out!

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Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: Chronology of the Development of Steam Power 1696 1839

For Students 9th - 10th

This complete chronology of steam power is designed in time line fashion. Next to each year is a detailed description of the invention. Another useful aspect of this site is the "Link to the decades," found at the top of the page. Each...

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Coco Chanel: Innovator and Icon

For Students 9th - 10th

A biography of Coco Chanel (1883-1971 CE) that details the history of her work as well as her life. Provides pictures of her designs.

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The Roman Makeover

For Students 9th - 10th

A unique page created by an expert in ancient cosmetics and beauty. Shows what a Roman matron would have gone through to prepare her skin and face to be a fashionable lady.

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Curated OER

Old Fashioned Love / Kruchenykh and Larionov

For Students 9th - 10th

Russian artists and poets working during a turbulent decade in Russian history, the 1910s, produced books that combined visuals with short poems as an expression of their uncertainty about Russia's past, present, and future.

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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Art Deco

For Students 9th - 10th

A description of the art deco movement, with a chronological list of artists and links to famous works and biographies.

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University of Washington

Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization: Clothing: Traditional Versus Modern

For Students 9th - 10th

An explanation of traditional forms of Chinese dress that also looks at how styles of clothing in China have changed, especially with the introduction of communism in the twentieth century.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Master of Calamarca, Angel With Arquebus

For Students 9th - 10th

Guns, angels and fashion are three unexpected elements that co-exist in the Master of Calamarca's painting Archangel with Gun, Asiel Timor Dei. View pictures and read the history of this painting in this essay.

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