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Education and Visual Literacy
* indicates a metasite of links to imagebases.
ARTSEDGE: Weblinks, National Arts and Education Network, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts *
ArtsEdNet, Getty Education Institute for the Arts, lesson plans
Best of History Web Sites, Center for Teaching History with Technology
Bugscope, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CERES (Center for Educational Resources) Project, NASA, Montana State University
CLN: Community Learning Network Theme Pages
EdSITEment, National Endowment for the Humanities, lesson plans, image links *
ExInEd: Exploration in Education, Space Telescope Science Institute, NASA
Exploratorium, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
GEM: Gateway to 21 st Century Skills, National Education Association, kw search or browse "image sets" *
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, CUNY and George Mason University, Search "images" or Advanced Search check Topic(s) and Types of Resources Images
Learning Page, Library of Congress, Lessons--by Themes,Topics, Disciplines or Eras
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) Classroom for Teachers and Students
Online Art Collection, Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University
Online Meteorology Guide, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teaching with Documents Lesson Plans, US National Archives, United States history
U.S. Geological Survey and Science Education
"Visual literacy resources on the Web," Alessia Zanin-Yost, College & Research Libraries News, vol. 68 no. 8, September 2007.
Visual Literacy Toolbox: Learning to Read Images, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland.
"Visual resources online; digital images of primary materials on public Web sites," Annie Blecksmith, College & Research Libraries News, vol. 69 no. 5, May 2008.
Go To References
Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer
rthomas@bu.edu (617) 353-3770