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Khan Academy: Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater

For Students 9th - 10th
Frank Lloyd's Wright's internationally celebrated house, Fallingwater, is an example of Organic Architecture which stems from Transcendentalism - the belief that human life is part of nature. Read the history and view pictures of this...
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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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Center for Understanding the Built Environment (Cube)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this community-based organization is to provide information for educators to teach students about design, preservation, and planning. The goal of the program is to learn from what's around you and translate that...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 1962

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Linus Carl Pauling, the winner of the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. This website is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Other Resources," and "The Nobel Chemistry Prize 1954."
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Curated OER

Bluffton College: Edgar J. Kaufmann House (Fallingwater)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Bluffton College provides an extensive array of beautiful images providing several views of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, Fallingwater. The waterfall goes right under the house! A true integration of nature and...
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Western Pennsylvania Conservancy: Fallingwater

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed information and rich media about Fallingwater, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most innovative residential design projects.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is an Inka Ushnu?

For Students 9th - 10th
The Inka capital Cusco and principal outlying towns of the Inka Empire were organized around a public plaza with a specially-constructed platform placed facing a designated sacred central space called the ushnu. The ushnu platform was a...
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)

E Pd Lp: El Poder De La Palabra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Space dedicated to prose, where you can find numerous Spanish literary passages, as well as author biographies and pictures. You can also read about art (organized by countries, periods, museums), music (organized by countries, periods,...
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Contract Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
Magazine for commercial interior design and architecture. Provides pages of projects, articles about the business of design, links to organizations and publications.
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United Nations

Unesco: Amiens Cathedral

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization contains a brief description of the cathedral in Amiens, France. Related links are available in French.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: The Place Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
An indexing page for an elaborate and in-depth hyper-textbook on various physics topics. This page indexes several others which pertain to human ability to perceive sound and recognize pitch. Introduces and explains Place Theory.
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Unesco: Brazil: Historic Centre of the Town of Goias

For Students 9th - 10th
Goias testifies to the occupation and colonization of the lands of central Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries. The urban layout is an example of the organic development of a mining town, adapted to the conditions of the site. Although...
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Unesco: Israel: White City of Tel Aviv the Modern Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting...

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