Places, Pictures and Experiences with Primary Sources

Google Arts and Culture meets the HABS collection with an emphasis on STEAM

Imagine using the power of the HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey) housed digitally through the Library of Congress with your students!  The collection brings together architecture, engineering, landscape design, drawings, photographs, written histories and documentation dating from pre-Colombian times.  Google Arts and Culture is a treasure of digitally curated artwork, experiments, museums, featuring content from over 2000 leading museums and archives.  Teachers can use this amazing website to take their students on virtual field trips, museums, close up on art work and artifacts.  Explore the lives of people who changed history and important historical places and beautiful locations all over the world.  Allow your students to use Google Arts and Culture then explore ways to curate their own collection by brainstorming their own Arts and culture virtually or on paper with this guide. They can mark their favorite images and collections and then create their own gallery!

Encourage your students to reflect on their findings. Here is a reflection and analyzation tool. Click here for a link.

Allow your students to use Google Arts and Culture then explore ways to curate their own collection by brainstorming their own Arts and culture virtually or on paper with this guide.

Bring the power of STEAM to your classroom with these tools.