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American Museum of Natural History

Planetary Mysteries

For Students 6th - 12th
A website all about planetary mysteries—it's a one-stop-shop for all things, stars, planets, and space travel. Scholars read an astronomy overview to discover the page's big ideas, then choose from the plethora of resources, including...
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American Museum of Natural History

What is Earth?

For Students 6th - 12th
Humans have only inhabited Earth for a short part of its existence. An online resource explains how scientists use clues from rocks and fossils to piece together information about Earth prior to humans. The online instruction includes...
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Courbet and the Modern Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
The Getty's multimedia-rich exploration of the life and career of French realist Gustave Courbet, whose innovative approach to landscape painting inspired many artists who came after him, including Monet, Cezanne, and Pissarro. Along...
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Asla: Landscape Architect Career Discovery

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you dream of working outdoors? A career in landscape architecture may be a good fit for you! Investigate job descriptions and take a landscape architecture interest quiz.
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Brushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors

For Students 9th - 10th
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit, a description of the show and sections with audio clips,...
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit.
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: "Under the Open Sky": Landscape Sketches by Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, ""Under the Open Sky": Landscape Sketches by Nineteenth-Century American Artists" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit.
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Careers New Zealand

Careers New Zealand: Landscape Architect

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on becoming a landscape architect. While some of the information is specific to New Zealand, most of it is uniform to the career.
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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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ArtLex

Art Lex: Landscapes by Artists Born Between 1801 and 1820

For Students 9th - 10th
Great website of landscapes done by artists born in the early 19th century (before 1820). Includes nice images and links to further information on specific pieces of art.
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University of Oregon

University of Oregon: History of Landscape Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
This page contains dozens of links on information about the history of landscape architecture.
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Ameican Society of Landscape Architects

For Students 9th - 10th
Holds lots of information on landscape architecture. It has information about everything from upcoming landscape arcitecture events to information about the career.
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University of Oregon

University of Oregon: History of Landscape Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic history of landscape architecture. Includes many different categories for landscape architecture.
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Okerstrom Lang Landscape Architects

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is the homepage of a landscape architecture firm in Massachusetts. It provides photos from the firm's parks and recreational, residential, commercial, and streetscapes portfolio.
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Harvard University

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
This photographic collection has over 2,000 images of American landscapes and architectural features built during the period 1850-1920. You can search by keyword, subject, by name, or by state.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Claude Lorrain, "Pastoral Landscape"

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan Museum of Art gives you Claude Lorrain, "Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna". Here you can find a brief discription of the painting and a reproduction of the work.
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Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: u.s. Religion Landscape Survey

For Students 9th - 10th
Website summarizing the results of a survey on religion in the U.S. Contains maps and charts of information for each specific religion as well as bar graphs comparing the deomographics of the different religious groups. Two full reports...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Art Wonders

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
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Columbia University

Nasa: Sedac: Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A huge resource for researchers without GIS capabilities who need data on population and land area by country across a range of physical characteristics. These include measures such as the number of...
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US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Land Use History and Changing Landscapes

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides links that overview the history of land use in the United States. Numerous satellite images of different areas are provided.
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Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Gulf of Maine Research Institute: Undersea Landscapes: Bay of Fundy

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn more about bays by discovering the Bay of Fundy. Read about this interesting place and view pictures of this beautiful bay.
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BBC

Bbc: Landscapes of Scotland

For Students 1st - 5th
Let your friendly guide, Goggs, take you on a tour of the Highlands and the Islands of Scotland. This is a fun introduction to learning map skills. Archived.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Frank Lloyd Wright Designs for an American Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
A site covering Frank Lloyd Wright from 1922-1932. Specific information on how his architecture was designed with the environment in mind. The Exhibition was at the Library of Congress from 1966 until 1997.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: American Visionaries: Thomas Moran

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit features the works of landscape artist Thomas Moran, whose paintings inspired the creation of Yellowstone Park in 1916. A gallery of images of his paintings is included.

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