General
- A user recommends watching “Fly me to the Moon”, an animated feature about three young flies that catch a ride on Apollo 13. Can be rented or found on Netflix.
- Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks.
- A vast resource on 20th-Century Art. Click on General, Early, or Later 20th-Century Art.
- This art history project book can be used in all four year-plans, as it goes through the 1980’s. There are 80 projects in this book entitled Great Studio Projects in Art History, and is written by William Reid. ISBN 0825138523
- Here’s real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
- Lowe’s and Home Depot stores have kid’s workshops on selected Saturdays each month! They give the child a complete kit with all the materials needed to build a project. They set up worktables with hammers, wood glue, screw drivers, etc. They also give aprons and pins for completing the project. Call your local store for details!
- Puzzlemaker: input a list of words and this site will generate crosswords, word searches, codes, etc.
- Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps
- 2 c. smooth peanut butter
- 2 1/2 c. powdered milk
- 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
- 2 c. white corn syrup
- Blue icing – lakes and oceans
- Green sprinkles – plains
- Clear sprinkles – deserts
- Chocolate chips – mountains
- Red candy strips – rivers
- M&Ms – capitals
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
General Resources for this Unit
- This site lists online biographies to all the “greats” of Jazz!
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Pictures of Teddy Roosevelt (photographs, cartoons, and more from Wikimedia Commons).
- The Model T
- A site on fashions from 1900-1910.
- More fashions
- Favorite toys of 1900-1910
- This website has instructions and templates for building the Wright brothers’ planes.
- Wright Brothers Model
- Make paper airplanes
- How to make a mobile.
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- Red Cross
- Panama Canal
- Outline maps of the different states
- Cut away of the Titanic
- San Francisco Earthquake
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- This site contains photographs of eight different real submarines, six model submarines and a large number of plans of old and modern boats. Submarine video clips and two virtual submarine tours are also presented.
- Nova online: submarines
- Submarine Warfare in WWI
- Paper airplanes: Scroll through to find easy, medium difficulty, and hard to make varieties.
- Periscope project: extended directions to supplement those given in the Student Activity Pages.
- World War I cartoons
- Frederick Delius and his music
- Architecture in early 1900
- Cubism Art
- Pablo Picasso
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Zeppelins
- Using a compass. Scroll to the bottom to get to the lessons.
- Planes from WWI
- Lusitania
- Scott Joplin
- George Braque
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Actual pictures of a U-boat sinking a merchant marine vessel.
- French Army in the War
- American Recruiting Posters from WWI
- Igor Stravinsky
- Schools of Art before and after Russian Revolution
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- Political Cartoons from 1900-1920
- Political Cartoons from WWI
- Richard Strauss
- Enrique Granados- listen to his music
- Expressionism
Week 7: Postwar America
- How to make your own paper dolls – generic site for all paper dolls
- Paperdoll Heaven: play paper dolls online
- George Gershwin site
- Radio in the 1920’s
- Click here for your “newscaster” project.
- Vintage radio script library.
- Watch them dance the Charleston from the 1920’s
- Jean Sibelius
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- The Harlem Renaissance: video
- This site lists online biographies to all the “greats” of Jazz!
- Joplin tunes and Ragtime pieces that can be downloaded.
- Jazz for kids
- Ken Burns Jazz on PBS
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- Think you know baseball? Take this baseball quiz.
- Charlie Chaplin movies to watch!
- Baseball field positions
- Charles Ives
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- How to create a flip book- video
- Creating a flip book
- Steamboat Willie information
- Steamboat Willie video on YouTube
- Stock Market Information from Nasdaq
- Al Capone
- Development of the Polio Vaccine
- Polio Vaccine today
- George Gershwin
- Bauhaus School: 1919-1933
- Dadaism
- Edward Hopper: Cape Cod Evening
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Stock Market Information from Nasdaq
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Great site on the 1930’s. It covers prices of things during this time period for the LG activity.
- Another good site on prices in the 1930’s.
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Basic Musical Terms
- Regionalism
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Amelia Earhart Museum: biography, childhood, virtual tour, etc.
- You Tube video- Bing Crosby singing “Old Man River”
- Winston Churchill
- World War II Overview
- Adolf Hitler
- Francisco Franco
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Fascist Architecture
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- Pictures of battleships
- History of air craft carriers. All U.S. ships ever built listed by name with personal histories from those who sailed them linked. Fascinating REAL history!
- Modern British aircraft carriers.
- From Anna in LA: We recently stumbled on a wonderful book suitable for mature D-level on up through adults. If your D or R-level student is studying or will be studying WWII history and loves fashion, design and dolls this is a “must read”. This book retails for $30 but you can purchase it at Amazon for about $21. Théâtre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture (Revised second edition)
- Printable Battleship Game
- Papier Mache Piggy Bank
- How to Blow an Egg
- Victory Gardens
- For Your WWII assignment: Underground Resistance, Women on the Front Line, Rationing, Bombs and Bombers
- Aircraft Carrier to help with the making of your model
- Bela Bartok
- Norman Rockwell
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Making a Toy Parachute: Click here.
- Bob Hope during WWII
- YouTube: Bob Hope “Thanks for the Memories”
- Maurice Ravel
- Giorgio Morandi
- Alberto Giacometti
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Rosie the Riveter
- Famous Women of WWII
- Jigsaw Puzzle Maker
- Make a periscope.
- How to darn a sock
- Ammunition from WWII
- WWII Uniforms
- The Anderson Shelter and a picture of the shelter.
- D-Day video
- Manhattan Project
- V-E Day
- Military Insignias – This site has all the different branches of service.
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Surrealism
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Dewey Vs Truman: Election of 1948
- Information for the Dialectic United Nations Project: Flags for all the countries
- Manuel de Falla
- Abstract Expressionism
- William de Kooning
- Jackson Pollock
- Mark Rothko
- Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Making salt
- Making salt – a YouTube video
- Making salt sculptures
- Coloring pages about India
- Recipes from India – for kids
- A History of Indian clothing
- Frances Poulenc’s music and biography
- Make a distaff to spin wool into yarn
- Franz Kline
- Hans Hoffman
- Richard Diebenkorn
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- Chinese propaganda posters. Fascinating jump-off discussion starters, especially after our in-depth study of propaganda in World War II. Compare/contrast, enjoy!
- Coloring pages about China
- The Great Leap Forward: video and text.
- Anton Webern
- Chinese Art
- Chinese Tea Ceremony
- Pictures of Mao Zedong for your art project
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- General Douglas MacArthur
- Unforgettable: The Korean War. A PBS film.
- Coloring pages about Korea
- Jean Dubuffet – French avant-garde painter.
- M.C. Escher
- Encyclopedia Britannica Pagoda
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- Fashion of the 1950s
- 1950s Fashion
- Frank Stella artwork: Earlier paintings Harran II, and an example of his later relief sculpture
- Josef Albers artwork: from the Hirshhorn Museum (scroll down and also go to page 2 for more images), from the National Gallery, Washington, DC, and more artwork.
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Living conditions of Black and White Americans in the 1950s
- Vietnam: climate and natural resources
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- View many of the works of Robert Rauschenburg, especially Canyon that is referenced in the Teacher’s Notes.
- Selected Works from a Jasper Johns Retrospective at MoMA, 1996
- Rock Music
- Sputnik: Images for your project
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- Pop Art on Artlex, or Archive
- Interesting Warhol article in Christianity Today’s Periodical Books and Culture
- Coloring pages of Andy Warhol’s artwork
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Cuban Recipes
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Claes Oldenburg
- Musical Terms – some with good audio examples
- Coloring pages about Vietnam
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Solar System Model
- Make your own astronaut suit!
- Make a solar system mobile
- Check out this website with lots of solar system activities!
- Meeting Basic Needs in Space
- Instructions for making a papel picado.
- Information for your clay models for a baby’s size at each month after conception.
- Make a booklet about the seven continents.
- Crafts for your overview of North America: Canada, United States, Mexico
- Conceptual Art site with artists’ biographies and works (scroll through the page to see the links)
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- For your picture of a computer: 1970s computer displays.
- Play Pong online.
- For your mini-poster: Nadia Comaneci and Muhammad Ali.
- Continue your booklet about the seven continents
- Crafts for your overview of South America
- Performance Art
- Make a Rain Stick craft.
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Parts of a Peanut Plant
- How to Grow Peanuts
- Peanut Recipes
- Health benefits of peanuts
- Interview with Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
- Diagram of a nuclear plant
- Lessons about Nuclear Reactors (scroll to some very helpful pdf files)
- Earth Art
- Installation Art
- Read about Andy Goldsworth here.
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- The Earth from Space
- Continue your booklet about the seven continents
- For your mini-poster: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Steve Wozniak
- For your visual about the Strategic Defense Initiative, otherwise known as Star Wars
- Strategic Defense Initiative
- Architecture Review of 80s Design
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- For your mini poster: Nelson Mandela
- For your Upper Grammar web project: service provider, web browser, search engine, hypertext.
- For your Dialectic web project: http and https, html (click on links in left toolbar), web browsers
- For your mini-poster: Norman Schwarzkopf
- Green movement
- Sandra Bowden
- Dan Callis
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- For your mini-poster: Bill Gates
- For your mobile: Nelson Mandela
- Image showing progression of cell phones
- Time line of cell phones
- For your digital collage: Tiger Woods, Cal Ripken, Mark McGwire, John Elway
- For your mini-poster: Ron Brown, Henry Cisneros, Janet Reno, Donna Shalala, Jocelyn Elders, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Madeleine Albright
- Continue your booklet about the seven continents
- Princess Diana’s charity work
- Mary McCleary
- John Silvis
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- For your mini-poster: George W. Bush
- Crafts for your overview of Asia: Japan
- Read about Edward Knippers here or here. (Beware of nudity in some artwork.)
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Crafts for your overview of Africa
- Architecture and urban degradation
- Albert Pedulla
- Tim Rollins
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- Have fun playing games in which you put the Presidents in order: here or here.
- Joel Sheesley
- Makoto Fujimura
- CIVA – Christians in the Visual Arts. Check out the kinds of exhibitions that this group sponsors, the artist directory for perspective art collectors