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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Building Up, Breaking Down

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents Building Up, Breaking Down. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students investigate how buildings weather. See what happens to a building once it has been erected....
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Unesco: Russian Federation: Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl

For Students 9th - 10th
Situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl Rivers some 250 km north-east of Moscow, the historic city of Yaroslavl developed into a major commercial centre from the 11th century. It is renowned for its numerous 17th-century...
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Unesco: Israel: White City of Tel Aviv the Modern Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arizona: Grand Canyon Village

For Students 9th - 10th
Planned town significant for its urban planning and ecological sensitivity.
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Unesco: United Kingdom: Saltaire

For Students 9th - 10th
Saltaire, West Yorkshire, is a complete and well-preserved industrial village of the second half of the 19th century. Its textile mills, public buildings and workers' housing are built in a harmonious style of high architectural...
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Unesco: Mexico: Historic Centre of Morelia

For Students 9th - 10th
Built in the 16th century, Morelia is an outstanding example of urban planning which combines the ideas of the Spanish Renaissance with the Mesoamerican experience. Well-adapted to the slopes of the hill site, its streets still follow...
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The Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Centennial Museum is an academic support and outreach unit of the University of Texas at El Paso focusing on the natural history and the indigenous, colonial, pre-urban, and folk cultures of the border regions of the southwestern...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wild Tv: City Horses Part Ii

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Wild TV short video in which riders discuss the benefits of coming to the Cedar Lane Stables in New York City. [2:59]
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Hands on Civics: An Approach to Increase Community Intelligence

For Students 9th - 10th
This article outlines a program that the author has used with academically at-risk ninth grade students to enhance their understanding of how communities work and how they can change through individual and group efforts.
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Hands on Civics: An Approach to Increase Community Intelligence

For Students 9th - 10th
This article outlines a program that the author has used with academically at-risk ninth grade students to enhance their understanding of how communities work and how they can change through individual and group efforts.
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Unesco: Netherlands: Seventeenth Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam

For Students 9th - 10th
The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new 'port city’ built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canals to the west and south of the historic...
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Unesco: Germany: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

For Students 9th - 10th
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive...

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