World History
Another item I found on the Open Culture blog (mentioned below) is this set of Renaissance era paintings which have been placed online using high resolution and you can get very close for your students. They include paintings da Vinci, Botticelli and others.
- Understating Creoles Through Casta Paintings
Studying Spanish America and the social hierarchy they developed? Spanish born Peninsulares were on top and just below them were Creoles, the sons and daughters of their European parents. But a series of paintings in the mid 19th century...
- Tropical Cave Art: Older Than European Art
Here's a short documentary form Nature Video about the discovery of cave paintings in Indonesia that "may change what we know about art." That's because these paintings date back more than 39,000 years ago, which could make then older than the...
- If Pangea Never Broke Up
Here's where you might live if Pangea never broke up.If you go to Open Culture, you click can on the map and blow it up for better resolution....
- Lascaux Cave
Here is another example of a virtual tour, this one to Lascaux, France where you can look at their infamous cave paintings - which are no longer open to the public (thankfully my parents dragged me there in high school). ...
- Quick Video Of All Points Needed In World History I
In VA our students take two years of world history in high school (pre-history through the Renaissance and the Renaissance through 21st century). The main points we are slated to teach our kids is called the Essentials of Knowledge (a little background...
World History
High Resolution Images from the Renaissance
- Understating Creoles Through Casta Paintings
Studying Spanish America and the social hierarchy they developed? Spanish born Peninsulares were on top and just below them were Creoles, the sons and daughters of their European parents. But a series of paintings in the mid 19th century...
- Tropical Cave Art: Older Than European Art
Here's a short documentary form Nature Video about the discovery of cave paintings in Indonesia that "may change what we know about art." That's because these paintings date back more than 39,000 years ago, which could make then older than the...
- If Pangea Never Broke Up
Here's where you might live if Pangea never broke up.If you go to Open Culture, you click can on the map and blow it up for better resolution....
- Lascaux Cave
Here is another example of a virtual tour, this one to Lascaux, France where you can look at their infamous cave paintings - which are no longer open to the public (thankfully my parents dragged me there in high school). ...
- Quick Video Of All Points Needed In World History I
In VA our students take two years of world history in high school (pre-history through the Renaissance and the Renaissance through 21st century). The main points we are slated to teach our kids is called the Essentials of Knowledge (a little background...