Curated OER
What's in a Name
High schoolers compare two products and determine which is a better choice in terms of certain parameters. In this forestry lesson, students calculate the price of two different toothpick products. They decide which of the two is a...
Curated OER
Wood A Natural Renewable Resource
Students discuss the harvest of trees as a renewable resource. In this renewable resource lesson, students evaluate the importance of how man harvest trees and uses wood as a renewable resource.
Curated OER
Wood Products
Students examine wood samples and find and identify various items at school and at home that are made from wood products.
Curated OER
Wood Types/Porosity
Students examine hardwoods and their pores. They discover that some pores allow for air movement while others do not. They also examine and identify the different types of hardwoods.
University of Florida
Fmnh: University of Florida Herbarium
This excellent site contains information on the University of Florida Herbarium located in Gainsville, Florida. The Herbarium offers five different collections of plants as well as an electronic library of plants.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Grant Wood
This site provides biographical information about Grant Wood. Include links to some of his works.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Baseball Bat Debate: What's Better, Wood or Aluminum?
Science and math abound in baseball. In this project, you can produce some interesting baseball statistics of your own and perhaps settle a long-standing debate. You'll set up experiments at your local playing field to find out which...
Museum Network (UK)
Wallace Collection: Material World: Wood
Learn where wood comes from and about the properties of wood that make it useful to artists.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Listing of Wood Carvers
ArtCyclopedia's list of woodcarvers from the 19th and 20th centuries includes Isaac Fowle (1806-1843), Richard Hunt (b. 1951), and Calvin Hunt (b. 1956).
American University
American University: Austria Timber Import Ban
Cites an Austrian law that tried to limit tropical rainforest product imports through taxation and eco-labeling in order to slow the effects of deforestation due to export trade. The effort was met with so much economic opposition that...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Headspace 20: Architecture: Raw Materials
Resource about the raw materials used for building: stone, wood, metal, and glass. Historic and modern uses are described. Includes interviews with architects and excerpts from literature relevant to the raw materials.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Energy and the Poor Black Carbon in Developing Nations
In this activity, students explore impacts of the use of wood, dung, and charcoal in developing countries for fuel. Class discussion will generate a list of impacts from the use of black carbon generating fuels.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Xylophone
The xylophone is a percussion instrument that is tuned and has a keyboard shape. Use this resource to learn more about it and the other instruments in the percussion family. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to hear the xylophone by...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Piccolo, Woodwind Instrument
Read about the woodwind family and how it is divided. Learn about the piccolo and how it is played. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to listen to the piccolo on its own and with the orchestra.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Oboe
Learn about the oboe and how it is played. Read more about the woodwind family. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to hear the oboe on its own or with the orchestra.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Bass Clarinet
Use this resource to learn about the bass clarinet, and read about the woodwind family. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to hear the bass clarinet on its own and with the orchestra.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Wharton Esherick
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Wharton Esherick is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture (using wood) and furniture design.
American University
Deforestation in Madagascar
Gives history of Madagascar's cultural and economic development in relation to its land clearing practices. Cites biological species indigenous to the island, and their imminent destruction. Includes links to several case studies.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Grant Wood
View "American Gothic," with brief contextual notes and analysis.
Andre Dollinger
Reshafim: Building in Ancient Egypt
What was involved in building the towns, pyramids, and temples in ancient Egypt? Read about the planning that needed to be done, including building plans, material acquisition, and labor force.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Child's Dream
For this lesson, each student will use gouache and wood to create an original piece of art based on a childhood story book.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Listing of Woodturner Artists
ArtCyclopedia's profiles the work of woodturners Melvin Lindquist (1911-2000) and Mark Lindquist (b. 1949).
Other
Hognosesam: Materials Metal, Wood and Plastic
This site describes building materials, their strengths and weaknesses, and how to choose the correct material for a project.
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.