BBC
Bbc: Landscapes: Map Skills: Symbols and Keys
A guide for young learners to understand reading maps and their keys.
BBC
Bbc: Landscapes: Map Skills: Grid References
Young map readers will learn the idea of referring to the grid numbers to help find locations or to describe locations on a map.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Landscape
A very nice website with a definition of landscape and several examples of landscape paintings and photographs. Provides links to landscape art from specific historical eras.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Examples of Landscapes by Artists Born Before 1700
This website has great examples of landscapes done by artists born before 1700 by artists of a variety of nationalities and art movements. Includes art ranging in date from as early as the 3rd millenium B.C. to 1701. Each image has a...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Landscapes by Artists Born Between 1701 and 1800
A nice website with examples of landscapes by artists born during the 18th century. Each example is annotated with general information and a link is provided for more information on the individual piece of art.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Landscapes by Artists Born Between 1801 and 1820
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.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Pastoral Art
This website describes a specific type of landscape, the pastoral. Includes several examples of pastoral scenes and links to further information on the individual pieces of artwork.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Alfred Thompson Bricher
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Alfred Thompson Bricher is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings. For the last seventeen years of his life, Bricher...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: John F. Carlson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, John F. Carlson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Max Weyl
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Max Weyl is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Martin Johnson Heade
"Cattelya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds," by Martin Johnson Heade is shown and analyzed on this site. Also, a short exercise on the five senses, and a word puzzle at the end for students to try.