US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Forestry, Conservation, and Logging Occupations
Complete description of careers in logging, including loggers, fallers, buckers, equipment operators, choke setters and riggers, sorters, log graders and scalers, and others who work in the wood harvesting occupations. Page contains...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Patrocino Barela
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Patrocino Barela. Barela works as a sculptor using wood carving. The site, in addition to the biographical information, provides...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Garry Knox Bennett
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Garry Knox Bennett is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculptures combing wood with various materials (metals, aluminum, and glass).
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Al Stirt
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Al Stirt is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work as a woodturner.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Poetry of George Meredith
This site from the University of Toronto provides the full texts for 16 of George Meredith's poems.
Other
Nbmaa/ Grant Wood/ Sentimental Ballad
Grant Wood's artwork "Sentimental Ballad" is shown and a brief overview of highlights of the artist's work with the film industry.
Other
Robert Frost: America's Poet
This site provides many full text poems by Robert Frost. There are also multiple links for more information on Frost and his works.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Religion: Henry David Thoreau
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: George Meredith Poetry
Full text of selected poems by George Meredith (1828-1909). Includes "From 'Love in the Valley,'" "Phaebus with Admetus," "Love's Grave," "Lucifer in Starlight," and "Dirge in Woods."
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: T. S. Eliot
This site offers a brief biography, but more importantly provides online texts of four of Eliot's works: "Prufrock and Other Observations", "Poems", "The Waste Land", and "Sacred Wood" (Eliot's collection of essays on poetry and criticism).
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Japanese Artist Katsushika Hokusai
A site created by Enchanted Learning about the life and works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849 CE). Contains a short biography, links to more information, an art activity, and a printable coloring page that can also be...
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: t.s. Eliot
Resource provides a brief biography of Eliot with a bibliography of his works. Of particular interest is an audio clip of Eliot reading "La Figlia Che Piange." The site also provides a basic explanation of Modernism and hyperlinks to...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Tim O'brien Lesson Plans
For teaching the work of Tim O'Brien, this site features lesson plans, overviews, notes, and other resources to help students reading The Things They Carried, Ambush, Going After Cacciato, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and so on.
Emory University
Emory University: Ousmane Sembene
A brief biography of Sembene, along with two essays which focus on his writing and a list of works.
Other
Cal Earth the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture
Founded and directed by the internationally renowned architect and author Nader Khalili, this institute works to create homes from the earth using such materials as sand, clay, and dirt. Its mission is to create tree-less places for...
Maine Historical Society
Maine Memory Network: Longfellow's Ripple Effect: Journaling With the Poet
This is a series of six lessons, designed to help students become familiar with Longfellow's work, as well as to strengthen their writing and reflection skills.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Thomas Eakins
A full gallery of Eakin's work, as well as a brief biography. The links at the bottom provide more information.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Durer was born in Nuremberg; he was apprenticed to the painter Michel Wolgemut. He traveled widely from 1492 to 1494, visiting Schongauer's workshop in Colmar, the leading German painter and engraver at the time. From 1494-5 he...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Felipe Archuleta
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Felipe Archuleta. Archuleta worked carving sculptures primarily out of wood. The site, in addition to the biographical...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Louis Simon
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Louis Simon is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with wood carving. Simon is known for carving signs for his motorcycle shop.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Instrument Encyclopedia: Bassoon
This essay provides general and historical information on the woodwind instrument, the bassoon, which is a "larger and lower-voiced version of the oboe." Included are references to famous musicians who worked with the bassoon and several...
EL Education
El Education: Alternative Energy Report
This report was created by 7th and 8th grade students in Vergennes, Vermont, as part of a Learning expedition called "Reducing the Carbon Footprint." The building manager met with a team of approximately 40 students as they investigated...
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Work Table
An image of "Work table", created by Adam Weisweiler from 1786-89 (Oak veneered with various woods, with gilt-bronze mounts, height 74 cm).
Careers New Zealand
Career Nz: Pattern Maker
A thorough examination of the work of a Model Maker. While specific to New Zealand's market, the site provides job description information that applies industry-wide.
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