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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan: A Guided Tour

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Albert Bierstadt's painting Wind River Country shows viewers how a reader progresses through a story. Your class studies the light and dark areas, how the eye moves across the painting, and what attracts the audience to the work, and...
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Website
University of California

Uc Berkeley Art Museum's Online Guide for Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
This student-friendly tour of the UC Berkeley Art Museum features fun online activities and a tutorial on how to read a museum label.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo: Landscape Painting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan uncovers the "tricks" artists use when creating a landscape painting. Students will explore the work of American artists George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Winslow Homer. One of the activities is in spanish.
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Unit Plan
Other

Fine Arts Museum: Teachers' Guide to American Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This guide focuses on twenty-four paintings from the impressive collection of American art housed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The earliest work, a portrait of the children of a Puritan family, dates from 1670. The last piece...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America, 1870 1912: Visions of the West

For Students 9th - 10th
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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards, historical documents, literary texts, and works of art, thematically organized with notes and discussion questions....
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Hudson River School

For Students 9th - 10th
Survey the career and paintings of the Hudson River School in American painting (1835-1870).
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Handout
CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Albert Bierstadt

For Students 9th - 10th
This museum article provides fifteen thumbnail images of Albert Bierstadt's paintings are available for enlarging, with biographical information on a separate page.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Artist in American Society

For Students 9th - 10th
See how the creation of visual art in its many forms developed over the first half of the 19th century. In addition of the painters in the Hudson River School of Art, read about the beautification of natural spaces such as parks, and...
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Website
Other

Kids Art's Art History Albert Bierstadt

For Students 6th - 8th
This is an article about Bierstadt's painting of the western frontier. Also includes a copy of his painting "Yosemite Valley".
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Handout
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Albert Bierstadt

For Students 9th - 10th
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Albert Bierstadt.
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Activity
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Picturing America: Bierstadt: Looking Down Yosemite Valley [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and analysis of a characteristic western landscape by Bierstadt communicates the essential qualities of his work.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Yosemite Valley at Sunset

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Yosemite Valley at Sunset", created by Albert Bierstadt in 1864 (Oil on cardboard, 30 x 49 cm).