Maps of Mexico
Virtual Picture Travel Map of New York
Click on New York and take a virtual tour of Manhattan. Visit places of interest such as Ellis Island, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, Times Square, Rockefeller Center and the Central Park Zoo. Uses popups.
Read Works
Read Works: The Shortest Path
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the bridge built to connect Staten Island and Brooklyn, New York. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Native American Settlements
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different types of homes lived in by Native Americans throughout America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Library of Congress
Loc: Built in America
This collection documents achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories. Highlights of the collection include windmills, bridges, and buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Balsa Towers
Students will build their own towers using some of the techniques they have learned. The materials will consist of balsa wood and glue. General guidelines are provided, but the students will have a lot of freedom with their design to...
Read Works
Read Works: Native Americans Who Discovered America?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the discovery of America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Smile!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ruby Bridges, the first African American to attend a Southern, all-white elementary school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Walking Tall
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ruby Bridges, the first African American to attend a Southern, all-white elementary school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Walking Tall
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ruby Bridges and her experience as the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Structures Around the World
How does that bridge stay up? What are the forces acting on that column? This site helps students understand how structures can be built by having them build their own. Also provides images of real structures for kids to compare with...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Strong as the Weakest Link
To introduce the two types of stress that materials undergo - compression and tension - students examine compressive and tensile forces and learn about bridges and skyscrapers. They construct their own building structure using...
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Building of Westminster Bridge
An image of "The Building of Westminster Bridge", created by Samuel Scott in 1750 (Oil on canvas, 79 x 151 cm).
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Real Scientists: Earthquake Scientist
Learn how engineers use science to prevent buildings and bridges from collapsing during an earthquake.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Early America: The First Americans
Gives an overview of the timeline of humans establishing themselves in the Americas, starting with the crossing of the Bering Sea land bridge some time before 12,000 B.C. Archaeological evidence shows humans moving south and eventually...
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Building the Devil's Bridge
An image of "Building the Devil's Bridge", created by Karl Blechen in 1833 (Oil on canvas, 78 x 105 cm).
Curated OER
Capriccio: The Grand Canal, With an Imaginary Rialto Bridge and Other Buildings
An image of "Capriccio: The Grand Canal, with an Imaginary Rialto Bridge and Other Buildings", created by Canaletto during the 1740's (Oil on canvas, 60 x 82 cm).
Curated OER
Capriccio: A Palladian Design for the Rialto Bridge, With Buildings at Vicenza
An image of "Capriccio: a Palladian Design for the Rialto Bridge, with Buildings at Vicenza", created by Canaletto during the 1740's (Oil on canvas, 60,5 x 82 cm).
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: London Covent Garden and Eastward to London Bridge, 1720
A detailed map of London Circa1720 showing major roads, the River Thames, parks, government buildings and locations pertaining to the times of Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) east of Covent Gardens to London Bridge.
Curated OER
Mc Cord Museum: Building a Vancouver Icon: The Lions Gate Bridge
Follow the history and construction of the Lion's Gate Bridge in the city of Vancouver through archival video clips and photographs.
Boston College
Digital Archive of Architecture: Roman Architecture
7 pictures of famous Roman architecture in France. No supporting information is included.
Other
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream in the Classroom
This is a passage for those who wish to learn through A Midsummer Night's Dream to build bridges between real life concerns and this play, as it was in Shakespeare's time. Gives character profiles and outlines their problems in the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Breaking Barriers: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
Through a series of picture book read-alouds and journal entries, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Aqueduct
The Pont du Gard near Nimes (ancient Nemausus) in southern France. Built by the emperor Antoninus Pius. The bridge spans two hilltops nearly a thousand feet apart. It carries an aqueduct with three tiers of massive stone arches at a...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arch of Constantine
The Arch of Constantine was erected to celebrate Constantine's victory of Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge. It is situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill.
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