Curated OER
Black & White Drama
Students explore Ansel Adams's dramatic black and white mountain landscape photographs. They identify common geographic elements and animals indigenous to the Sierra Nevada and create original art in black and white to depict light and...
INTERNET Red 2000
All About Spain: Andalucia
3000 hours of sun per year - well, that's what you get when you visit the beautiful region of Andalusia. It has varied landscapes and a beautiful climate. It's capital is Seville. This site is available in English, Spanish or German.
University of Chicago
American Environmental Photographs 1891 1936
An interesting site that shows early photographs by Henry Chandler Cowles and George Damon Fuller and others. The images range from ecological settings to the consequences of human changes to the environment.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: John Muir 1838 1914
Easy to understand biography of John Muir (1838-1914 CE), featuring a timeline and pictures of National Parks he helped to create.
CNN
Cnn: Virus Carried by Mice Is a Mysterious Killer
This 1995 article details the case of a 55-year-old man who died of a hantavirus infection after an outing in the Sierra Nevada. Discusses mortality rate, carriers, ways to decrease risk.
PBS
New Perspectives on the West: The Sierra Nevadas
A brief description and map of Sierra Nevada Mountains. Describes the struggle of Charles Crocker to build the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevadas.
Other
Nevada Museum of Art
The collection of the Nevada Museum of Art emphasizes the themes of the environment and the West, in categories of historical survey, work ethic, the Great Basin, contemporary art, and the altered landscape photographs. Each category is...
Other
Bobskiing.com: Bob's Free Heel Skiing in the Sierra
Describes tours available in the Sierra Nevada, weather, and avalanche information. See webcam pictures. Discusses skiing in Sierra Nevada.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nevada History Quiz
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is a follow up quiz to the Nevada History Flipchart. It is geared towards intermediate grades (3-5) and quizzes students on their comprehension of basic Nevada History. There are also some...
University of Minnesota
Catalog Raisonne of the American Landscape Painter Gilbert Munger
View a painting of the Truckee River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains