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Make Your Own Money
An extremely intricate and well organized WebQuest that involves economics and visual arts. Students complete an online exploration of monetary systems and then create one of their own for their school.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Civil War@smithsonian
Access to the Smithsonian's extensive collections that document the American Civil War.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Decades Mural Project
Lesson for social studies teachers whose students are studying various decades.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Lets Net: Global Connection: Art Across the Planet
Art unit in which students draw their homes and share these drawings with students in a foreign country Includes unit description, list of materials, and links to lesson plans.
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Asian Arts
Here you will find Images, Associations, Articles, and links concerning Asian Arts.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Felix Nussbaum the Fate of a Jewish Artist
Felix Nussbaum was an artist who perished in Auschwitz after being in hiding for four years. View his artwork and learn more about his life on this site.
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
The Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
If you are researching the Central Pacific Railroad or the importance of photography in the recording of our social and technological history, this site is for you. You will find plenty of topic photos and good information about the...
Other
National Museum of Australia: Voyaging With a Needle: Embroidered Maps
Hand-embroidered map samplers, the work of women needle workers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, convey what was known of the world at the time and traces the routes of explorers, such as James Cook, who were then active....
Crayola
Crayola: Houses of Power
Study the architecture of government buildings then create a suspended bas relief sculpture.
Crayola
Crayola: Mexican Moments
Investigate the Aztec calendar then create a fictional scroll calendar with details of an imaginary trip to Mexico.
Crayola
Crayola: Airplane View
Show off your knowledge of geography. Draw your state, its neighbors and indicate notable landforms as if you were viewing them from the window of an airplane.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Africa
A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Heroines & Social Media
Students will learn about Queen Zenobia of Palmyra who led her soldiers to challenge the Roman Empire. Then, they will select another famous heroine from history and create a fictional Facebook profile for her as a form of biography....
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Coming to Terms With the Past
Young scholars will examine the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer and discuss how art might be a means of understanding and coming to terms with history. Students will follow in Kiefer's practice by creating their own works of art that...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Text and Art
Students will examine the work of artist Barbara Kruger and consider how visual media, such as in print and advertising, can be constructed to influence viewers' perceptions and behaviors. Students will create their own works of art...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Cazin in the Quarry
Using Cazin's painting The Quarry of Monsieur Pascal near Nanterre, students will hypothesize about the workings, setting, and size of this French quarry. Then, applying his working method of "memory painting," they will draw or paint a...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Inness in the Countryside
Discussion of a landscape painting by George Inness will introduce students to the impact of the railroad on the countryside in mid-nineteenth-century America. They will depict this same scenery as they envision it in the past and in the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Homer: Veteran in a New Field [Pdf]
Examination of a painting by Homer made shortly after the end of the Civil War communicates the deep, emotional attitudes of the artist about war's affect on the country and its future.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Dress Up a Horse
For this activity, students dress a horse and rider in gear from six cultures. They then answer questions about their features and about similarities and differences between styles from different cultures. The horse, rider, and gear...
US National Archives
National Archives: Designs for Democracy
A collection of government approved drawings and designs for hundreds of objects including ships, bridges, flags and more.
Other
Sweet Briar College: Art History Resources on the Web
Find a collection of links related to art history, compiled by university professor Christopher Witcombe.
Other
National Gallery, London: Take One Picture History
Looking for creative ways to incorporate art into other school subjects? Here are some unique for teaching history through art and vice versa.