Websites to Support the New Curriculum
Grade 8: Cluster 1
Understanding Societies Past and Present
Learning Experience
8.1.1
What is a World View?
8.1.1 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
York University, Reversible Image:
http://www.yorku.ca/eye/vase.htm
Detroit Institute of Arts, Ancient Art :
http://www.dia.org/collections/ancient/ancientindex.html
Louvre Museum Virtual Tour :
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Aegean Art:
http://www.ou.edu/finearts/art/ahi4913/aegeanhtml/aegean2.html
Berger Foundation, World Art Treasures:
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/index.html
(select Periods slide library for slides of artwork from various historical periods)
Ancient Art and Architecture:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html
Art History, Medieval Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval.html
Art History, Ancient Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html
Art History, Islamic Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval/islamart.html
Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html
Asian Art, Exhibitions:
http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions.html
Early Japanese Visual Arts:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/ART.HTM
Etruscan Art:
http://www.ou.edu/class/ahi4163/files/main.html
8.1.1 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Detroit Institute of Arts, Ancient Art:
http://www.dia.org/collections/ancient/ancientindex.html
Louvre Museum Virtual Tour:
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Aegean Art:
http://www.ou.edu/finearts/art/ahi4913/aegeanhtml/aegean2.html
Berger Foundation, World Art Treasures:
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/index.html
(select Periods slide library for slides of artwork from various historical periods)
Ancient Art and Architecture:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html
Art History, Medieval Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval.html
Art History, Ancient Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html
Art History, Islamic Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval/islamart.html
Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html
Asian Art, Exhibitions:
http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions.html
Early Japanese Visual Arts:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/ART.HTM
Etruscan Art:
http://www.ou.edu/class/ahi4163/files/main.html
8.1.1 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
Learning Experience
8.1.2
Origins of Human Societies
8.1.2 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
Images of the cave art of Lascaux in France (about 13,000): http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
8.1.2 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Creation Myths from around the World
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths.html
Links to creation myths:
http://www.magictails.com/creationlinks.html
The Gods of Ancient Egypt, the Creation:
http://touregypt.net/godsofegypt/thecreation.htm
Encyclopedia Mythica:
http://www.pantheon.org/
Saskatchewan Education, Native Studies, Precontact, Teachers’ Resource Guide:
http://www.saskschools.ca/~ischool/natstudies/pdf/Precontact.pdf
(This pdf Teachers’ Resource Guide contains some examples of Aboriginal creation stories)
CBC News: Ontario Museum drops Christian year system http://www.cbc.ca/artsCanada/stories/museum041202.print
Flints and Stones; Real Life in Prehistory
http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/flint/menu.html
Students’ Friend, Geography and History, Unit 1, Prehistory, Origins of the Earth and Humans:
http://www.studentsfriend.com/sf/part1see/unit1-1.html
Museum of Civilization, Mothers of Time, Paleolithic:
http://www.civilization.ca/archeo/paleofig/pal00eng.html
Human Pre-History: An Exhibition:
http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/prehis/prerm3.htm
Electronic Passport to Prehistory:
http://www.mrdowling.com/602prehistory.html
PreHistory educational reference site:
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/PreHistory.html
8.1.2 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
Learning Experience
8.1.3
Societies and Civilizations
8.1.3 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.1.3 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.1.3 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
Learning Experience
8.1.4
Knowing the Past
8.1.4 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
8.1.4 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.1.4 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended