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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Find Out How Your Lawn Measures Up

For Students 9th - 10th
Based on a Calfornia ordinance that limits the size of lawns, Habitat Network offers some alternatives for a species-rich backyard.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Native Lawn Ftw! (For the Win)

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the advantages of planting native grasses in a lawn.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Rain Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
Get some tips and strategies to create a sustainable rain garden.
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Careers New Zealand

Careers Nz: Architect

For Students 9th - 10th
This Kiwi Careers site gives an overview of the architectural career field. While some of the information is specific to New Zealand, there is information that is uniform throughout the architectural career field.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Composition

For Students 9th - 10th
This online dictionary of art terms from Artlex is a valuable tool. The composition page explains how the term is used in the world of art. There are related links and works of art to explore.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Survive That Tsunami!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a table-top-sized tsunami generator to observe the formation and devastation of a tsunami. They see how a tsunami moves across the ocean and what happens when it reaches the continental shelf. Students make villages of model...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Frederick Law Olmsted House

For Students 9th - 10th
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), one of America's leading landscape designers of his generation, lived and worked at this site for the last twenty years of his life.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Springside

For Students 9th - 10th
Only surviving landscape designed by Andrew Jackson Downing; also known as Matthew Vassar Estate.
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Virginia Tech

International Archive of Women in Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
The IAWA was established in 1985 at Virginia Tech to document the history of women's involvement in architecture. Check out the Online Inventory and other links associated with this site.
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Hood Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed by architect Charles Moore, the Hood Museum of Art has a permanent collection ranging from Ancient and Asian to Modern and Contemporary Art. Of special note are American portrait paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries,...
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Curated OER

Unesco: United Kingdom: New Lanark

For Students 9th - 10th
New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings,...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Me: Camden Amphitheatre and Public Library

For Students 9th - 10th
The Camden Library building was designed in the 1920s by architect Charles F. Loring, and its grounds, including an amphitheatre, represent one of the few public works of landscape architect Fletcher Steele.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Lincoln Park Lily Pool

For Students 9th - 10th
An example of Prairie School landscape architecture designed by Alfred Caldwell.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Naumkeag

For Students 9th - 10th
This Gilded Age mansion and country estate was designed by McKim, Mead & White, with landscaping by Fletcher Steele. Built in the 1880s for lawyer Joseph Choate, it was given by his daughter to The Trustees of Reservations, who...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Castle Hill

For Students 9th - 10th
This early 20th-century country estate is one of the finest of its type. The house was designed by architect David Adler of Chicago, and the landscaping was done by the Olmsted Brothers firm, among others. The estate is owned by The...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Robert Treat Paine House

For Students 9th - 10th
Also known as Stonehurst, this city-owned estate was designed by H. H. Richardson with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmsted for Boston lawyer Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1835-1910). It is open to the public.

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