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A. Pintura's Art Mysteries - An enticing way to get students to think about specific works of art: present them with a mystery to solve. They will stretch themselves to identify the artists of the mystery paintings, who range from Gaugin to Van Gogh.
Armadillo - links to fine art sites for educators.
Art ala Carte - This site welcomes art submissions from students under 16.
Art Educational resources for elementary and secondary students from about.com.
Art for Kids - links to all sorts of information and activities
The Art Room - Hello and welcome to the @rt room! Its mission is to provide a virtual learning environment for exploring the world of art. While the @rt room has been designed with kids in mind (ages 8 and up), teachers may find the activities and information presented useful in their curriculum planning.
Art Safari - Art Safari invites you and your child to explore the painting and sculpture collection of The Museum of Modern Art. This site encourages learning about art by looking and sharing interpretations.
Art Resources from About.com - find a gallery or information on the history of photography. All sorts of great links.
Art Search Links - many sites to help you find information. From Chris Sherman at About.com
Arts Edge - ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts.
Arts Journal - Here's a daily listing of the latest arts news and stories from more than 100 newspapers, magazines, and Web publications. Look for articles about business, politics, theater, music, dance, and publishing.
ArtNet - The North Carolina Museum of Art presents work from talented young artists in their Student Gallery. Try Puzzles and Games for jigsaw masterpieces or Class Projects for ideas.
The Canons and Fugues of Bach - Learn the definition of canon and fugue with examples from Bach. Students can also create music on this site.
Classical Composer's Archive - This site offers biographical information on all major music makers from the fourteenth century to the present.
Classical Music Resources - from NHPTV knowledge network - a very good list of resources.
Composers in Electronic Residence - Are you a music student or teacher? Do you use MIDI technology in your classroom? If so, stop surfing and start exploring CIER's WWW site! CIER can link you with professional composers and other music students and teachers. The expertise and enthusiasm of professional composers is now available to music classrooms around the world.
Crayons and Computers - You can look at some great lessons from a good book - "Crayons and Computers". In Chapter 1, Colorful Fun, young artists learn the basics of color theory. Chapter 2, Colorful Characters, looks at how nine famous artists used color in their work. Chapter 3, Mother Nature's Paintbrush, looks at the beautiful colors in nature, exploring how animals and plants use color. Chapter 4, Colorful Discoveries, takes kids on Internet and CD-ROM field trips, visiting art museums, aquariums, and zoos. It also provides ideas on how to explore these color-filled places if you don't have an Internet connection. This book is a good companion to any art, nature, or computer technology learning program. Use it at home or at school.
DancePartners - DANCEPARTNERS is developing a collection of interactive resources that illustrate the interactive dance studio experience and support the use of this new medium for teaching. IDEAS includes video clips, audio clips, still photos and accompanying thoughts drawn from the interactive sessions. LESSONS include information for students and teachers to use in preparation for a planned interactive dance session or series of classes
DoodleOpolis: Adventures in Urban Architecture is an interactive Internet class that explores the nature of the space your students walk through every day - a school hallway, a park, a street, and introduces them to basic design practices, concepts and skills. Part of the Online Class Project Seroes (6-10 week INTERACTIVE learning units in which schools work in collaborative groups.)
Education at the Met - EDUCATION AT THE MET, a department of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, offers an innovative network of programs designed to help further music and arts education in schools and communities across the nation. By working directly with teachers, parents and young people we have created programs that make opera accessible and exciting to people of all ages and backgrounds
General Music 101 - Welcome to General Music 101. Here you can find information on some of your favorite composers and pieces of "serious" music. As well as some basic music theory. I hope you enjoy your stay, and please feel free to take advantage of our topical message boards.
George Eastman House - This site is rich in information about the place of photography in our lives.
Interactive Art - These Internet-based artworks by Mark Napier and John F. Simon, Jr. explore communal interactivity in a virtual space. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum commissioned them especially for acquisition into its permanent collection, thus extending the museum's longstanding commitment to supporting new media art.
Joesph Wu's Origami Page - Trace the history of origami (paper folding) from China to Japan to the entire world, and learn to fold your own paper creatures.
K-12 Programs from ASU Research - ASU Research Review - In 1992, funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs. Some of the lesson topics include:
- Planting Artistic Seeds - The Children's Art Workshop offers quality art instruction using materials and techniques not available in tightly budgeted school districts.
- Eating, Drinking and Breathing Mathematics - Joaquin Bustoz is commanding officer and drill sergeant at a mathematics boot camp.
- Real World Biology - Jeff Langland shows high school students exactly how biology coursework relates to life outside the school with through the BioREACH program.
Ken Fansler's Online Music Page - This site was created to show how the Internet can be used as part of a complete music education program.
Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop - Dr. N. Ventor, scientist and inventor of a time machine, is also a big fan of Leonardo da Vinci. To thank you and your friend Carmine Chameleon for testing her time machine, she is showing you her collection of Leonardo's works.
Mandalas - How can you combine geometry, social studies, and art into a single cross-disciplinary topic? Try teaching a lesson on mandalas! Mandalas: Geometric Link between Medicine and History
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Mandalas - Students will construct and illustrate a mandala that reflects
their personalities and ideas about the world.
More, More, More Mandalas - Click on the Lesson Links on the left side for great lessons and information.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History - Follow the evolution of mankind's artistic style courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and its online Timeline of Art History. View by geographic area, time period, or artistic themes. Hundreds of enlargeable photos bring this collection alive.
MozartQuest - an online scavenger hunt that takes you through pre-screened web pages in your quest to find information about Mozart.
Mrs. Rose Shows You - Has art projects, lessons and ideas.
The Mudcat Cafe - Try this searchable database of over 8000 folksongs. This magazine is dedicated to blues and folk music.
MUSÉE - this site provides Web visitors with four different ways to search for museums. Click on any one of the four search features in the banner above to access that particular type of search. Below is a brief description of each one.
Museographs - These monographs are three-hole punched for easy organization and access. The 81/2 x 11 inch full-color, reproductions are also three-hole punched and provide masterful visual examples of the featured topic. The reproductions are also DOUBLE laminated for heavy duty service. On the back of each reproduction is a description of the work of art and additional explanatory text. With MUSEOGRAPHS you build a treasury of unique art topics and reproductions that are an immediate and continuing resource. You can order online or through the company.
Museum Images - links to many museum image collections including images from the Vatican Museum and National Gallery
Music History 102 - A brief history of music from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century with audio files.
Music Resources Online - from about.com. From jazz to country-western, classical to techno, these Web directories will help you find musicians, recordings, instruments--everything musical.
My Sheet Music - print out free sheet music for many songs.
Mythos - Zeus Speaks - Welcome to this interactive online study of Greek mythology (grades 4 - 8). This is an interdisciplinary curriculum that encourages history research and reinforcement of concepts through drama and creative writing. It is highly interactive and lots of fun. Part of the Online Class Project Seroes (6-10 week INTERACTIVE learning units in which schools work in collaborative groups.)
Native American Art - This beautiful site is rich with images of Native American art, pottery, beadwork, sculptures, textiles, legend paintings, baskets, and photographs. Each is exhibited along with information about the artist and the techniques and history of the craft.
The Piano Page - This site is the be-all and end-all of sites for piano-related materials.
Poetry - a list of great sites K-12 for teaching poetry.
The Potter's Page - Visit this site for a wealth of information related to potters and pottery worldwide.
Teacher's First Music Resources - A nice list of music resources
The Virtual Study Tour - This architectural site lets students walk through computer reproductions of ancient buildings and modern structures. Click on direction buttons to move through the buildings.
World of Escher - Explore the intriguing world of the artist M.C. Escher. This site features Escher’s biography and stories about his life and work. The Art Museum pages contain many of Escher’s mind-boggling works and spatial illusions.
World Music - from about.com, information on music from all over the world.
World of Music - On this site you can identify different instruments, hear what they sound like, and learn about the music of different countries.
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