Teaching Resources

Large mural covering a brick building. Painted mostly with shades of blue. Includes a group of whales swimming in a blue ocean. Small yet bright fish are swimming nearer the ocean floor and dolphins are jumping out of the top surface of the water. A strip of blue sky and white clouds make up the top part of the composition.

One large color photograph of a bridge and five Smaller photographs of details on the bridge. The entire bridge is painted to appear as if it is made up of three-dimensional stone blocks and carvings.

One large color photograph of the entire wall mural and four Smaller photographs of detailed areas of the mural.

Men and women farmers working in the sunny countryside. Wheat field in background . Women picking flowers. Men biking and boxing California oranges.

Flat red brick building in downtown Fort Worth, TX painted to look three-dimensional with windows and marble work. In the center of the wall is painted a black-and-white scene of two cowboys on horseback pushing a group of longhorn cattle towards the viewer.

Explores the lives and works of twelve American architects, such as Thomas Jefferson, H. H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Philip Johnson (b.1906- ), and I.M. Pei. Guide includes biographies, photographs, and follow-up activities.

Describes subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city.

Explains how tents, houses, stadiums, and bridges are built, and how to build models of such structures using materials found around the home.

Examines the works of Philip Johnson (b.1906) and their effect on architecture in Texas and the world.

Describes the imaginary mills of Wicksbridge, Rhode Island, including their planning, construction, and operation.