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Curated OER

Briefing Book

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students prepare a briefing book highlighting important twentieth century events in Europe. The book lists and explains the major events of the twentieth century that caused separation and unification in Europe.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Presenting Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a business card to market them.  In this developing a business card to market them lesson, students design a business card to represent them.  Students create a logo or graphic design that is professional and...
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Graphic
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fashion Illustrations

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore more fashion illustrations of the early 20th century in this online art gallery of lithographs. Includes the work of noted French illustrator George Barbier.
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Website
Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: Dating Old Photographs From Clothes Worn: 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs and fashion illustrations of clothing typically worn in 1920's America and Europe.
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Handout
Victorian Web

Brown University: The Victorian Web: The Arts in Victorian Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
University provides a comprehensive collection of Victorian art topics that are hyperlinked to further information and images. Topics include Victorian painting, sculpture, design, illustration, fashion, and dress.
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Activity
Other

Bata Shoe Museum: All About Shoes: Suffragettes, Sports, and Smoky Nightclubs

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated entry in a history-of-shoes exhibit underscores the link between the style of women's footwear and their growing emancipation in 1920s America.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Paris Fashion

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Paris Fashion."
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Art Deco

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the art deco movement, with a chronological list of artists and links to famous works and biographies.
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Website
Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Art Jobs & Careers

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource for exploring a wide range of careers in the arts, from advertising and animation to video games and web design.
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Handout
Other

Ecp: Overview of an Elizabethan Outfit

For Students 9th - 10th
Fascinating outline of the multiple steps it took for a Elizabethan woman to dress for court. Details the time and pain required to be in fashion. Includes illustrative pictures.
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Website
Ibis Communications

Eye Witness to History: The Gibson Girl

For Students 9th - 10th
The Gibson Girl, an illustration done by Charles Gibson, became a fashion icon in the early 1900s. See some of Gibsons drawings and learn more about this social model for women in the early 20th century.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Flapper Fashion

For Students 9th - 10th
Site discusses and illustrates the fashions of the 1920s, the silhouette, hair, skirt length, shoes, hats, make up, and more.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: The First Ladies at the Smithsonian

For Students 9th - 10th
Fashion to politics, this popular exhibit of the National Museum of American History illustrates the history of the First Ladies.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Ataturk

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video segment illustrates Islamic and secular elements of life in Turkey, and introduces Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey, and his reforms. Focuses on fashion, specifically Islamic dress in response to...
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App
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Normal Probabilities Applet #3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Applet illustrates how to use the old-fashioned tables of normal probabilities and areas under the normal distribution cureve to arrive at corresponding graphs of the areas. A good resource for the topic.

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