picturing the thirties
http://americanart.si.edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/index.html
From the Smithsonian. Eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People." Features artwork, photos, and newsreels.
"Picturing the 1930s," a new educational web site created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the University of Virginia, allows teachers and students to explore the 1930s through paintings, artist memorabilia, historical documents, newsreels, period photographs, music, and video. Using PrimaryAccess, a web-based teaching tool developed at the university's Curry Center for Technology and Teacher Education, visitors can select images, write text, and record narration in the style of a documentary filmmaker.
1930's in picturesCollections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution
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A site full of information about the ocean. Timely--items about the current oil spill are there; just lots to see. Educator section.
The recent catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico compels all of us to turn our attention to the sea. A new website, the Smithsonian Ocean Portal offers teachers, parents and kids best-in-class educational, scientific and intellectual assets from the Smithsonian and more than 20 environmental organizations.