| 4Kids.org Art and Music activities |
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| The Art of Education Blog for art educators |
| Artist Card for Kids: Create your own artist trading cards and submit to this blog |
| Artists and Their Art: Sharing Visual Stories, a tool to promote visual literacy through artwork, for Grades 1-5. From Concordia College, Chicago |
| Art & Learning to Think & Feel: "Dedicated to Leaving No Mind Behind" Marvin Bartels' Art Education Page |
| Aaron's Awesome Adventure: a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Art Education 2.0: A website for networking--Using New Technology in Art Classrooms. |
| ARTiculation: Looking at Art |
| ArtLinksList A directory of Art Sites. You'll find artedia there! |
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| Art Sparkers: an idea that excites the synaptic nerves in your brain and stirs your imagination. |
| ArtPoints.net Essays about art and art education, events, and art links sponsored by Camlin Artists' Materials. Features student art and art societies across the country. Sign up for their eNewsletter. |
| ArtsConnectEd is a joint project of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center. Many images and presentation "software." |
| Artist's Statement: Molly Gordon's "How to write your Artist's Statement" |
| Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Program |
| ArtEdventures For creative individuals, beginner to advanced. Newly designed site. |
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| Braingle is a site that will boggle your mind with more than 12,000 brain teasers. |
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| Bloom's Taxonomy including digital language |
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| Create an Imaginary Landscape. Interactive Art Site Based on the work of Rousseau. From the National Gallery of Art. |
| Cardboard Sculptures by Chris Gilmour Amazing realism |
| CREO is a visual culture magazine with activities that you and your students can do. |
| Crayola Activities for classes or individuals, calendar, new products. |
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| Design a Still Life An interactive site from National Gallery. Fun! |
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| The Essential Lessons in Art Education List to get you and your students going... |
| "Essential" Art: Top 50 Must Teach Artworks PK-12 and Beyond... |
| edutopia The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) was founded in 1991 as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. They publish the stories of innovative teaching and learning through a variety of media -- a magazine, e-newsletters, DVDs, books, and this Web site. |
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| Frida Kahlo Interactive from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Games for the Brain features games with a visual emphasis. |
| Online Art Games Just what you need for those students who are finished with a project and need a productive self-guided art activity on the computer!
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| Halloween Pumpkin Carving: Caution! Other parts of this site are not appropriate for school. |
| Hotchalk's Lesson Plans Page: all grade levels |
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| Incredible Art Lessons Lesson plans, sharing, lessons for individuals. |
| Iowa Woodcarving Clubs Some artists like to chisel in wood. You can join them! |
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| Jackson Pollock It will look like absolutely nothing, but just start to move your cursor over the screen (left click to change colors) – reload to start over. |
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| Knowledge Loom: A place for teachers to share information. This resource is developed and maintained by The Education Alliance at Brown University. This link is specifically about Teaching Artistic Behavior. |
| Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Art and Architecture on Discovery Education. |
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| Letter Perspectives: A commercial site, but wonderful photos of letters. Perhaps the beginning of a photo project! |
| Light Painting with Kindergarteners Mr. Jones, Iowa City art teacher's YouTube video |
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| Morphing Presidents: from Washington to Obama |
| Missoula Children's Theatre The Little Red Truck brings two actor/directors and everything you need to produce a full musical production in one week. You supply the 50-60 kids to play the parts, a place to rehearse and perform, and an audience. A wonderful experience for the whole K-12 community! Ask me. |
| Mr. Picasso Head Use Picasso-style parts to create a portrait and email it to someone. |
| Museum of Bad Art Art too bad to be ignored. |
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| The World's resource for Native American Indian Cultural Performances |
| New Face of Art Thanks to a soft drink company, you and your students can see world famous new artists and their work. You can also use fun type-face to create a message. |
| Neighborhood Bridges Program of the Chidren's Theatre Company of Minneapolis to teach storytelling and creative drama. |
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| Podsafeaudio Music that you can use in your digital projects without breaking copyright laws. It's a site where the musicians have given permission to use their music. On the right side, find the button that says Music by Genre. Click on that to get started. When you get to songs, you can stream it clicking on the right arrow button next to the song, or you can download it to iTunes with the down arrow button (located next to the song, not on the keyboard.) |
| Public Television: PBS Teacher Lesson plans, media education, book/website lists |
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| River Weaving A beautiful project in Northeast Iowa with students and nature.
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| River of Words Each year, in affiliation with The Library of Congress Center for the Book, River of Words® conducts a free international poetry and art contest for youth on the theme of watersheds. The contest is designed to help youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live, and to express what they discover through poetry and art. |
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| Sand Sculpture How To plus Beautiful Examples. A Kid's Corner, too. |
| Snow Days We all look forward to these! |
| Snowflake Cutting online. Easy enough for the youngest computer users. |
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| Teaching for Artistic Behavior is a way of life in the art room! Try it! |
| TAB: Choice Based Art Education fosters "Thinking like an Artist!" |
| Through the Flowers Judy Chicago's (The Dinner Party) website whose mission is to educate a broad public about the importance of art and its power in countering the erasure of women's achievements. |
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| Van Gogh's Family Tree A little fun with Van Gogh. |
| Van Gogh Game and Quiz Rebuild the Langlois Bridge at Arles and relight the Starry Night |
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| Web 2.0 Weekly Challenge Activities to challenge artists of all ages |
| Why Cats Paint Documentary evidence and examples of feline art |
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