In this interactive activity from ChemThink, students will take a closer look at atomic structure, properties, and behaviors. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. [This resource is available on PBS Learning Media. Free registration is required.]
Augusta Savage is profiled at this site in a format that begins with a brief biographical sketch of her life. Her works are then listed by appearance in the museum's database. Each work is presented in thumbnail format with brief information including title of work and date of creation.
The British Broadcasting Corporation provides an incredibly detailed description and outline of Hinduism. Content includes a look at the religion's history, as well as its beliefs, customs, holy days, and forms of worship.
Follow this link to the British Film Institute's glossary of film and television terms.
Visit an example-rich exploration of poster art and learn how famous faces have been used to convey meanings and messages across the decades. An excellent resource for discovering how art can be a window into a particular time, Ballyhoo! looks at images from a range of periods in U.S. history, including turn-of-the century America (ca. 1890), World War I, World War II, and the 1960s. An effective device, also, for learning about celebrity culture and the tried-and-true advertising ruse of celebrity endorsement.
A very thorough biography on German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Discusses his upbringing, his career as a playwright, and his overall controversial life.
An exhibition that uses African art to explain the concepts of bigness and smallness. In the world of art, big and small can refer not only to physical size but to relative size, to the impression an object makes, or to the largeness of feeling it evokes. An interesting lesson about how to look closely at art, with lots of cultural information about how native peoples of Africa value artistic and cultural artifacts.
This lesson plan incorporates many subjects! Students create a flow chart after studying the "Evolution," of computers. Also provides adaptations and references to use. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com. Registration is free and takes only a few moments to complete.)
This site is a lesson plan that incorporates language arts, social studies, science, and art. After studying islands, and how they're formed, students create their own models using clay. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com. Registration is free and takes only a few moments to complete.)
Article describes the importance of bison to the Metis, bison hunting culture, foods made from bison, and what the loss of the herds meant to the Metis way of life.
This lesson plan incorporates art into a social studies or language arts class. Students create their own pictures, using the work of Harlem Renaissance artists as inspiration. Also provides resources and adaptations to try with this activity. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com. Registration is free and takes only a few moments to complete.)
This Bibliomania site provides a brief biography of the author Bram Stoker that highlights his works. The site also contains a link to the full text of his most famous work, Dracula.
At the online home of the British Museum, one of the most influential cultural institutions in the world with holdings representing British and world cultures across the full span of history, find information about all the latest happenings at the museum, along with access to its collections, exhibitions, online tours, resources for learning, research projects, and more. Offers translation into Chinese and Arabic from the main page.
Read Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre." It is fictionalised autobiography of its author that follows the fortunes of the heroine who comes to work for the mysterious Mr. Rochester.
Read the full text of Anne Bronte's 1848 novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. An introductory note discusses the book and author.
"Basquiat" was a 2005 exhibition of over 100 works by the American master painter Jean Michel Basquiat at the Brooklyn Museum. This page shows selected works from the exhibit and includes an interactive segment on the exhibit.
Take a visual tour of "American Identities; A New Look," an exhibit of American fine and decorative art from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
"An Art of Our Own: Women Ceramicists from the Permanent Collection" is a long-term exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition overview shows a few selected works from the exhibition plus a nice description of each piece.
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit, a description of the show and sections with audio clips, exhibition comments, a behind the scenes tour of the exhibit design and more.
"Graffiti" a 2006 exhibition of 20 large-scale graffiti paintings at the Brooklyn Museum is presented with images of the exhibit.