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Romey Stuckart is an artist who creates large-scale paintings of the forest and her surroundings, skillfully balancing abstraction and representation. Her heavily textured paintings are filled with inspiration and intuition. Using Stuckart's painting The Cedar as a focal point, students will create paintings while learning about the role that forests play in our environment and our imagination. From the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge program.

In this lesson, students will examine the ways in which art has the power to influence government policy. Students will learn that photography has had a social impact at various intersections with other historical events and movements. This lesson addresses the impact the photographs of the western frontier had on eastern U.S., especially by ensuring that the national parks system would be created. From the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge program.

Students will learn about the ecology of the bison of the plains and how art was used to save them through a series of activities. Student will discuss specific artists whose worked revolved around the bison and how this artwork was instrumental in the conservation of the animal. The student will discuss the role of the bison in the lifestyle of the Plains Indian. Lastly, the student will create a story about bison and a corresponding piece of artwork.  From the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

In the early 19th century, the Lewis and Clark's Expedition was charged by President Jefferson to map the Louisiana Purchase. During their exploration, they also collected and recorded plant and animal species, kept detailed records of the diversity of life, drew and painted examples of the plant and animals, and named these newly identified species. Students will focus on a two- week period in 1804, and select one plant and one animal species to research. They will draw each plant and animal species and create a journal entry for each item. From the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge.

Welcome to the Ocean Portal – a unique, interactive online experience that inspires awareness, understanding, and stewardship of the world’s Ocean, developed by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and more than 20 collaborating organizations.

In the Web-based game Predator Protector, students take on the role of an Ocean Adventures expedition volunteer member. In this role, students are charged with protecting three species of sharks from danger in order to defend the balance of nature in the ecosystem that these top predators help to maintain.

In this lesson, students will examine two maps that illustrate the tendency for people in the United States to settle near the coasts. They will research some

This lesson will introduce students to the geographic features of the Indian Ocean and the critical role of the monsoon in determining maritime trading patterns before the 16th century. Students will research various historic ports along the borders of the Indian Ocean and determine possible ways that local rulers attracted merchants.

Students use a digital camera to document local landscapes, identify the various ways in which land is used in their local community/environment and identify and discuss the environmental and social impacts of the different land uses.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) published an atlas outlining population-environment linkages. The atlas contains maps and graphics that quantify and illustrate many of the issues and text that lay out the broader links between population dynamics and the environment, placing them within historical perspective.