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Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: Learning About Landscapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Take a look at aspects of drawing landscapes from horizontal lines to titles of some landscapes on display in the Birmingham Art Gallery.
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Landscaping With Native Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
What is a native plant? Why should I use native plants? Which plants will attract birds and butterflies? These questions are answered and a number of important facts are discussed in the highly informative site.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Carve That Mountain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students further investigate major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, hills, oceans and plateaus). They build a three-dimensional model of a landscape depicting several of these landforms. Once they have built...
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University of California

University of California: Bampfa: Yosemite Winter Scene by Albert Bierstadt

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about different qualities of landscapes, such as degree of realism versus exaggeration, from this activity that pushes viewers to think about different aspects of Bierstadt's seasonal landscape titled Yosemite Winter Scene.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: At a Brand New Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what to do with the habitat of a blank canvas at a new home landscape.
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Other

Tom Thomson Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical sketch of Tom Thomson who's "landscape paintings in oil created an enduring image of the Ontario North. His art both reflected and reinforced developing Canadian nationalism". He was an engraver, commercial artist, and...
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California State University

Animals in the Landscape Mural

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A simple introductory lesson for kindergarteners on constructing murals. They will fine tune their motor skills as they draw and cut animals from paper to create a class farm.
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The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Ite About 'Winter Scene'

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about this winter landscape by Klaes Molenaer. A special feature allows you to get a close look at the painting. You can even see brushstrokes!
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PBS

Iowa Public Television: Explore More News

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Investigate an issue related to genetic engineering, energy, working landscapes or water quality. Write several articles that define the issue, describe the different views on the issue and explain why people should be interested in this...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This hands-on activity explores five different forms of erosion (chemical, water, wind, glacier and temperature). Students rotate through stations and model each type of erosion on rocks, soils and minerals. The students record their...
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Henry J. Sage

Sage American History: The Progressive Era: 1896 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive and detailed look at the changing political, social and economic landscape during the Progressive Era, 1896-1920. Readers will find well-organized links to readings, documents and external sources.
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PBS

Pbs: Craft in America

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting look at how all of us are somehow connected to handmade crafts. Explore the idea of folk art and fine crafts through three major themes: memory, landscape, and community.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Cultural Diversity in the United States

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn about several different metaphors that have been used to describe cultural diversity in the United States. Then they choose a metaphor that represents today's diverse cultural landscape. Background information, directions,...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Artists, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The artwork of four nineteenth-century free blacks expressed in portraits, landscapes, sculpture, and photography. Links to works from Joshua Johnson, Robert Scott Duncanson, Edmonia Lewis, and Augustus Washington are provided.
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American Public Media

American Radio Works: The Legacy of Agent Orange

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the how the herbicide Agent Orange has impacted, and still is impacting, the lives of people of Vietnam as well as the landscape of Vietnam.
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Afghanistan

For Students 3rd - 8th
Afghanistan is located in Central Asia with Iran to the west and Pakistan to the east. Tall, forbidding mountains and dry deserts cover most of the landscape of Afghanistan. The jagged mountain peaks are treacherous and are snow covered...
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Kenya

For Students 3rd - 8th
Even if you've never been to Kenya, chances are you know what it looks like. Kenya's savanna is familiar from movies, TV shows, books, and commercials. It's the landscape many people imagine when they think of Africa.
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Other

Scarterfield: Want to Learn How to Draw Cartoons?

For Students 1st - 9th
This site offers free step-by-step lessons on how to draw various types of cartoons including animals, characters, cars, Christmas, Disney, Manga, Superheros, landscape, and much more. General information about drawing cartoons is...
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National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Canada: Christopher Pratt

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on Christopher Pratt, one of Canada's most prominent landscape artists from Newfoundland. Discusses his background, his works, his style, his career, and his awards.
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Seismic Events of Special Interest

For Students 9th - 10th
This fact sheet highlights some of these recent seismic events that are of special interest because they have caused notable geologic changes to our landscape or devastating destruction to our society.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: River's Path

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What determines the path of a river? Rivers follow the path of least resistance changing the landscape by carrying sediment and debris along the way.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: I Spy Environments

For Teachers 4th
Investigate a variety of paintings of places in Utah in different seasons and different environments using different mediums.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Bruegel, Pieter the Elder

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography with links to large, clear images of some of his works.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: What Is Glacial Erosion?

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the formation and existence of glaciers, and the effects of their movement.

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