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ART
SITES - Lessons and Sources
ART
ACCESS
- http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/
ART LINKS
- http://www.bibliocat.org/
Art History, Lesson Plans, Museums, crafts, this site has links to
everywhere.
ART TEACHER CONNECTION - http://www.artteacherconnection.com/
Includes links to art teacher on line. Some links require a fee.
A.
PINTURA:
ART DETECTIVE
- http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
This site combines art history and a detective mystery to present art
as a body of knowledge. The Case of Grandpa's Painting is like a 1940's
movie, and it entirely depends on the choices you make as the story
unfolds.
You'll learn lots and be surprised at how much you already know. A must
see.
ART JUNCTION
- http://www.artjunction.org/
This is a collaborative art space for teachers and students, includes
artist trading cards, tech resources, and neat activities.
ART OF TIBET - http://www.tibetart.com/
This website is a database of Himalayan paintings and Buddhist
Iconography. There is a low-tech version, although the Flash version
allows
you to examine the different pieces up close.
ART SAFARI -
http://moma.org/momalearning/artsafari/index.html
On-line projects from MoMA.
ARTS AND
CRAFTS - http://familycrafts.about.com/mbody.htm
Click on this site for links to everywhere -- for teachers
searching
for ideas to complement their lessons and for anyone needing arts and
crafts
help. Bookmark this one!!
ARTS INDEX - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artp.html
Links by Kathy Schrock on the Discovery Channel pages for the
performing
arts, dance, music, drama.
ART
TAKES TIME -
http://members.aol.com/TWard64340/Index.htm
National Standards for the Visual Arts Education organized in a
chronological or timeline
approach
to art history. The students will see how Art has changed through the
years
and learn about the artists of that period and culture. The sequential
curriculum help students link art with the time and place in which it
was
created. The lesson plans include the concept, objective, vocabulary,
materials,
procedures and evaluation. Links to cultural and historical art
activities,
including Cave Art, Egyptian Art, Ancient Greece, African Art, Italian
Renaissance, French Impressionist and Modern Art. Also links to
art
museums. Just click on a time period and get an art lesson.
BULLETIN
BOARD LIBRARY
- http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/decor/bboards/index.html
Another great page from teachnet.com, smart tools for busy teachers.
Join Teacher2Teacher listserv.
CARLOS'
COLORING
BOOK - http://www.coloring.com/
Activity: Choose a picture, color it, and then show your finished ART
to the instructor. This is an example of an interactive coloring page.
It redraws the picture with the new color added. You can save your
finished
picture to a disk or the hard drive as an image file. Import the image
into your favorite paint program and print it on a color printer.
Another
use would be to include it in a project report.
CARTOONSTER - http://kidzdom.com/flash5.html
Cartoonster's free online tutorials provide step by step instructions
for drawing and animating. Techniques are simple and can be done with
no special materials. The site is totally flash-driven and full of
examples that make sense.
COLORING
PAGES
- http://coloringbookfun.com/
Downloadable, printable pages to color, organized by theme. The
downloadable
pages are below all the ads at the top.
COLOR THEORY
-
http://members.cox.net/mrsparker2/
(There are loud sounds when this site opens).This site offers a look
at color and how it can be used in art. Wheels, schemes, activities,
examples
and lessons are child-centered with lots of student art work, online
activities
and games and puzzles. Check out COLOR
MATTERS at http://www.colormatters.com
and see how easy it is to bring art and science together in a tangible
way.
THE COMTEMPORARY ART EXPERIENCE - http://library.thinkquest.org/26183/home.html
The Contemporary Art Experience features the work of 10 female artists.
You can view more than 70 art works in a diverse range of media. There
is information about the artists, interviews and analysis. Meet the
artists
in the café and view the studios where they work. You can share
this experience with a friend and send them an e-card and invite them
to
visit the gallery. The site aims to be fun as well as an educational
visual
art experience. From Australia.
CRAFTBITS.COM - hhttp://www.craftbits.com/home.do
This is an online craft store but there are free craft projects and
expert craft advice included on this page for preschool on up.
CRAYOLA SITE - http://www.crayola.com
Binny & Smith have produced an excellent resource for art
teachers.
Directions for creating art media, history of crayons and contents.
CRAYONS AND COMPUTERS - http://members.aol.com/Sabbeth/CrayonsandComputers.html
Online art lessons for elementary school children. See past lessons
at http://Members.aol.com/Art1234567/Art.html
DLTK'S
CRAFTS FOR
KIDS - http://www.dltk-kids.com
This features a variety of fun children's crafts and coloring pages
including projects for holidays, educational themes and some children's
favorite cartoon characters. There are lots of printable
templates
suitable for ages 2 and up, including holiday crafts, and greeting
cards.
ELEMENTARY
ART LESSON
PLANS - http://syrylynrainbowdragon.tripod.com/home.html
Just what the title says, "or what to do on Monday morning with 25
students starring at you. A great resource!
ENCHANTED LEARNING: ITALY - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/europe/italy/
Click here for a great introduction to Italy for elementary and
middle-schoolers, which has an overview of important country stats, and
lots of maps and flags to print and color like the coloring pictures of
Italian art masterpieces by Michelangelo, da Vinci and Raphael, and an
overview of Italian inventions such as the battery, eyeglasses,
parachute and radio. Be sure to look at the printable story books with
Italian vocab.
EYES
ON
ART
-
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/
A site from PacBell, there are six branches of Eyes on Art. The
activities
are designed to lead in a progression. Beginning students of art should
start with "You Choose" while more advanced students might touch base
with
"Double Visions". You can go directly to the activities. Instructions
for
students are found on the Web site for each activity. There is
even
a quiz and teacher guide.
FIRST SCHOOL
- http://www.first-school.ws/
First-School features a fun activity calendar, educational themes,
crafts, printable activities, and links to other Internet resources in
English and Spanish for children of preschool age.
FROM WINDMILLS TO WHIRLIGIGS - http://www.smm.org/sln/vollis/
A 'unique science and art connection to wind'; presented by the Science
Museum of Minnesota, this site is 'an in-depth exploration of science
and
art, concentrating on whirligigs, windmills and kinetic sculpture.'
Great
for elementary kids.
GETTY
- http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/
A wonderful site -- start with the lesson plans, then use the
connections
to many museums, Los Angeles art galleries and artists, teacher to
teacher
talk with digest and index of discussions by topic. Do not miss
this!
Receive a monthly newsletter from ArtsEdNet. Just send your
name and email address to
offline@getty.edu.
HANDS ON
CRAFTS -
http://www.handsoncrafts.org
This interactive website which starts with music, is designed to
offer kids the virtual
experience of working with clay and fiber crafts. Kids can build
a virtual face jug, coil a pot, create a crazy quilt, weave a wacky
wardrobe
and much more. The site also includes brief video clips of actual
kids doing the crafts for real. This site is tons of fun and a
great
introduction to traditional clay and fiber crafts (pottery, quilting,
basketry
& weaving).
HOTLIST: MUSEUMS - http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/museums.html
A listing of all museums with websites by type from science centers,
natural history museums to other cultural institutions including Zoonet
and the Getty. This site also links to other hotlists.
INSIDE ART
-
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/
This is GREAT! Participants get sucked into a Van Gogh painting
and then must learn all about art in order to get out; terrific online
simulation with tie-ins across the curriculum. Links to other
interactive
art lessons.
INSTITUTE OF EGYPTIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY - http://academic.memphis.edu/egypt/index.html
Online exhibit of ancient artifacts plus a virtual tour of a dozen
sites along the Nile; brings together Science, Social Studies, Language
Arts, Math and Health.
INVESTIGATING THE RENAISSANCE - http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/
From the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, This interactive
program
demonstrates the ways in which computer technology can be harnessed to
add to our knowledge about Renaissance paintings and how they were
made.
JOSEPH PALMER'S PAPER AIRPLANES - http://www.josephpalmer.com/planes/Airplane.shtml
These planes are designed to fly! They are not meant to be models of
real planes, and they are not meant to be pretty display models. (In
fact
they really fly much better if you don't decorate them!) Unlike
the
common schoolyard 'dart' designs, these planes are designed to have
have
lift; if you throw at a point on the ground about 10 feet away — they
will
fly up.
KALEIDOSCOPE
PAINTER
- http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
I love this site which creates colorful spiraling fractal designs based
on the movement of my (your) mouse. Change the effects by moving the
mouse or resizing the brush. You can even put it on Auto and watch as
the
mesmerizing lacy designs create themselves.
KIDSART -
http://www.kidsart.com
Click on art lesson plans for free ideas and information. From KidsArt
art teaching supplies, the site is free for elementary
teachers of all kinds. KidsArt is a great site for creative art ideas
(note
the current wallpaper activity). The Quick Art ideas and the Top Ten
Lists
of links are enough to make this site worth bookmarking,. And, the
ArtMap
USA is a great way to bring in geography to your art instruction.
KID'S DOMAIN HOLIDAYS - http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/
Games and fun and each holiday is updated one to two months before
the holiday. Visit this site year round.
KINDERART - http://www.kinderart.com/index.html
Over 225 art lesson plans for kindergarten and early primary grades.
LEONARDO DA VINCI - http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
From the Boston Museum of Science; this site begins with a letter to
teachers, followed by an Inventor's Workshop, a look at Leonardo's
Perspective,
and other resources. Curriculum connections to History, Science, Math,
Health, and Language Arts
MAKE A RAIN STICK - http://www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/lesson44.html
This is from Marilyn Brackney's Imagination Factory
website. The rain stick is a percussion instrument made from a
dried cactus branch. It originated in Chile, South America where
tribesmen have used the sticks for centuries to serenade the gods in
hopes of bringing rain. You can make one too. See Marilyn's Imagination Factory for
other activities.
MAKING
FRIENDS AND
OTHER CRAFTS FOR KIDS - http://makingfriends.com
Directions for making paper doll "friends" and other crafts.
The site changes with the seasons, but choose a craft and the
directions
are printable, with pictures. Scroll for free things. You can't
miss.
MARILYN'S IMAGINATION FACTORY -
http://www.kid-at-art.com/
There is no machinery at The Imagination Factory, and smokestacks don't
pollute the air. Instead, they teach children and their caregivers
creative
ways to recycle by making art. Recycling is one way to minimize or
lessen
the amount of trash we have to throw away. When we recycle, we make a
new
product out of waste materials. This process helps save natural
resources
like trees as well as landfill space and the money needed to get rid of
trash. For elementary children, this site emphasizes art and
recycling.
Gives students an ecologically sound message while promoting creative
thinking
- different and fun!
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART - http://www.metmuseum.org/
See section for educators.
MICHAEL'S ARTS AND CRAFTS STORE - http://www.michaels.com/art/online/static?page=kids
Click on projects and find lots of ideas and how-tos. You don't
have to buy anything.
MUSEUM OF
WEB ART
-
http://www.mowa.org/
Students in both art classes and computer or web-design classes
will
love this gallery devoted to the finest artistic elements of webdesign,
counters, buttons, etc. For graphic art students, this is an incredible
resource with many galleries and exhibits. Check out the Kids Gallery
for
students who are learning to create patterns. There are even stories
for
elementary students. You need Shockwave plug-in.
NOGGIN
GAMES AND MORE - http://www.noggin.com/games/index.php
Simple, colorful games for the very young. Involves matching,
recognition, and coloring games. NOGGIN is a commercial-free
educational channel dedicated to preschoolers. Requires Flash and
Shockwave.
PAPER AIRPLANES BY JIM CORNISH -
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/paper.htm
Links to paper airplane sites.
PICASSO - http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6085/5baj.html
A webquest about Picasso. It's fun.
PIECES 'N
CREASES: A FUN GUIDE TO ORIGAMI - http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5402/
Origami is the Japanese art of paperfolding. However, origami did not
start in Japan. It began in China in the first or second century and
then
spread to Japan sometime during the sixth century. Pieces ‘n Creases is
a Thinkquest. Enjoy the activities, the history, and the poems. After
you've
visited theWeb site, you won't be able to pass up a square piece of
paper
without a little folding.
PUZZLE
FACTORY: COLORING
- http://www.puzzlefactory.com/2007/index.cfm
Neat puzzles - but scroll down to coloring pages. Just when you think
you know how to color online, Puzzle Factory comes
along with new rules. Instead of clicking on a color, select it
with
a keyboard letter ("r" for red or "b" for blue) and hold that key down
while you drag your mouse over the picture. What a fun way to
learn
letters! To change the size of your paintbrush (they call it a
pencil),
simply tap a number from 0 to 9. Want to share the fun?
Pick
any of the coloring pages, and send it to a friend as a postcard.
RECIPES 4
LEARNING
- http://www.recipes4learning.com
This site is loaded with recipes for crafts, holidays, learning, and
songs. Try make your own fossils for example.
SANFORD & A LIFETIME OF COLOR: CREATE ART - http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/create/create.html
Do you want to create art? This is the place for activities,
techniques and inspiration! Try hands-on activities and techniques, or
browse online galleries of student and professional artwork.
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TEACHINGARTS
- http://www.teachingarts.org
Welcome to TeachingArts.org California's new arts education resource
center for dance, music theater and visual arts. A team of 20
Arts
TechMentors have evaluated sites to include here for your use. Check
this
out. It's a fabulous resource!
TOYMAKER
- http://www.thetoymaker.com
Free paper toys, holiday cards, valentines, sun boxs, baskets and bags,
origami and ephemera .. all free for you to make. From Marilyn Scott
Waters.
1200 YEARS OF ITALIAN SCULPTURE - http://www.thais.it/scultura/scultura.htm
Alphabetized exhaustive grouping of all kinds of Italian statues.
Includes
a map of Italy to help locate origins. Connects well to Social Studies,
Science and Math You will need to click on English
THE USE OF VISUAL INFORMATION IN ART - http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/art/
Online tutorial that brings together Art, Language Arts, Math and
Science
to examine how human perception interacts with and plays a role in the
visual arts
VAN GOGH
AT
ETTEN
- http://library.thinkquest.org/C001734/
A Thinkquest collaboration between students in The Netherlands,
Singapore
and Nigeria, this site has Van Gogh's biography with sketches and
billboards.
A neat new way to view biography.
VERY BEST
KIDS
- http://www.verybestkids.com/
Brought to you by Nestles, a great site with activities for all grades
and a teacher's corner. Check it out.
WEBMUSEUM OF HOLOGRAPHY - http://www.holoworld.com/
Make your own hologram!! This is an online museum which examines
the science behind holograms and then invites learners to try making
their
own. Integrates Science, Math, and Health.
WHAT IS A PRINT? - http://www.moma.org/whatisaprint/flash.html
Learn the basics of wood block, etching, lithography, and screen
printing
with mini-tutorials (requires Flash plugin). The New York Museum
of
Modern Art, combines these tutorials with examples of each type of
printing
and a glossary of print terminology.
WHY IS THE
MONA LISA SMILING? - http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/davin2.shtml
ThinkQuest site that investigates the mystery behind the
celebrated
portrait as well as original Da Vinci musical compositions. Science,
Math,
Social Studies and Language Arts all come into play here.
THE WILSTAR HOLIDAY PAGE - HISTORY, TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS -
http://wilstar.com/holidays/index.html
Just click on a holiday or visit the featured holiday for activities
and information.
WINSOR AND NEWTON - http://www.winsornewton.com/index.html
Attention all art teachers...this site has some great areas . See
factory
tour for the history of Windsor and Newton and how to make the paints.
"How did you do that?" has basic information on how to paint picture
frames,
paint on fabric, tint photos, etc.
WWW COLLECTION OF FAVORITE STRING FIGURES - http://alysion.org/string.htm
String figures are lots of fun and on this site there is a special
page for kids called Kid's Guide to 12 Easy String Figures. There are
actually videos to help too.
ZOOM Send It - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/zoom/sendit/
ZOOM, a PBS television series and awesome Web site, goes beyond
stories
and poems and also wants your art work, recipes, science
experiments,
media reviews, home movies, plays, brainteasers, jokes and craft ideas.
Although just a portion of the work submitted gets published on the
Web site, some of makes it to the television show. "ZOOM is
powered
by
the 1,025,697 kids who sent in stuff so far." That's a lot of
creative
kids!
Last Updated August, 2007