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The aim of the Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF) Red Tail Project is “to carry the lessons and legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen into every classroom in America.” CAF’s traveling mobile exhibition, RISE ABOVE, tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to young people all across America in an experiential way. The exhibition uses the Airmen’s story as an inspirational example of how students might reach beyond their grasp to attain new levels of achievement, just like the Tuskegee Airmen did in WWII, and “rise above” the challenging circumstances in their lives. On the RISE ABOVE Web site, you’ll find links to Tuskegee History, Tuskegee Facts, Airmen Bios, Classroom Activities, free, downloadable photos as well as other resources.
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Google recently launched Google Art Project with indoor “street views” of galleries and gigapixel photos of works at 17 museums from around the world, including the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Once inside the site, you can travel through a museum’s interior through the same technology used to navigate city streets on Google Maps and Google Earth. You can move from room to room within the virtual space and view more than 1,000 artworks painted by 400 artists. And you can even create and share your own collection of masterpieces online. Check out videos on the Art Project’s YouTube Channel.
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| Students can explore the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s America By Air online exhibition and experience flying from New York to San Francisco in different aviation eras. They simply choose a time period to begin: Early 1920s, 1930s, 1940s to 1950s, 1960s to 1970s, 1980s to present. After their journey, students can continue their exploration of aviation through 13 interactives, such as Travel Agent, in which students choose a destination (California and Bermuda) and decide how they’ll get there; Baggage Claim, in which they match baggage with passengers; and Around the World in 18 Days, in which they track a reporter’s journey around the world in 1936 and make a newsreel video of his journey.
Click Here to Visit Web Site | AwesomeStories features a collection of multimedia primary source materials—photos, video, audio and historical documents—held together in a series of digital stories about films, famous trials, disaster and historical events. When you become a member of Awesome Stories—membership is free—you can see everything on the site (including an extensive image database), explore all its features (including narrated stories), dig deeper (with lesson plans and text documents) and stay up to date with a free newsletter profiling current events and hot topics.
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