ARt Teacher resource Page

Ref #	Title and Description
1	http://education.crayola.com/ (Crayola Art Education)
2	http://www.kinderart.com/lessons.htm (KinderArt)
3	http://www.dhc.net/~artgeek/index.html" (Art Curriculum)
4	http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org. (ARTSEDGE)
5	http://www.crizmac.com/ (CRIZMAC)
6	ARTS AND CRAFTS STARTERS: http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~sarah/rdr010.html Recipes for playdough, peanut-butter playdough, silly putty, play slime, salt clay, bubbles, paper airplanes.....the basic ingredients of good, clean fun!
7	http://members.aol.com/TWard64340/Africa.htm
8	LEONARDO'S WORKSHOP--AN ART EDVENTURE: http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/leonardo/ At this site you can have your students create art, study art, or play art games. Even more, there's a special section for teaching art!
9	LOTS OF LINES--AN ART LESSON PLAN: http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/teach/lp_lots_of_lines.html An excellent lesson plan to teach K-2 students all about lines and their use in art. Starting with flashcards, students will identify different types of lines, see lines in art, and create their own drawings with lines.
10	A Lifetime of Color - Great site Create Art, Study Art, Teach Art, Play Arat Games.http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/
11	TRASH MATCH http//users.hsonline.net/kidatart/htdoc/matchtmp.htm This site is a very cool resource for art activities. Providing a considerable database of creative lessons, you click on a solid trash product (e.g. calendar illustrations, rubber bands, junk mail envelopes) and find corresponding art lessons which use these materials. I was really impressed with both the extent of the database and the creativity and quality of the art lessons offered with recycled objects.
12	TASTY COLOR MIXING http//www.kinderart.com/across/tasty.htm Who knew that teaching primary colors could be so yummy? Kindergarten to grade one students will have a blast doing these color mixes, which they also get to eat!
13	ART CAPADES--MONITOR MUSEUM http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/capades/museum.html Students choose a master's painting from a thumb-nail, then enlarge and print it out. They will study this painting, and then write about how it makes them feel, why they chose that particular painting, and write a story about it. Have them put themselves right into the painting as a character for another twist on the writing activity.
14	PRINTQUICK http//www.printquick.com/jsp/apps/Forwarder.jsp?aid=gre Print Quick.com prints out greeting cards--you can either use their graphics or import your own. It offers a few good suggestions for embellishing your greetings as well.
15	ARTS WORKSHOP -- LIGHTS, PUPPETS, ACTION http//www.childrensmuseum.org/artsworkshop/puppetshow.html Very cool site -- students will create their own characters, story, set, music, and choreography. They will create their own multimedia puppet show, and if they wish, can submit it to the collection of student puppet show projects on the web. Click on Teacher Tips to get great suggestions for creating the story, with protagonist, antagonist, creating sets, a three act story, etc. Altogether, you will have taught, step-by-step, all the elements of a dramatic production -- and all done for an online presentation.
16	ART SPARKERS http//www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/sparkers.html Choose amongst fifteen art sparkers to get your students jumping into an art project. Each activity includes links for further exploration; for example, Make an Artist Book will take you to Japanese Bookbinding Techniques, or Concertina, or making a book from a paper bag --hence you can make your art sparker project as limited or as extended as you wish.
17	A LEAF CONCERT http//nmaa-ryder.si.edu/education/kids/cappy/cappyframe.html Using color theory and leaf prints, students will also realize that their paintings can feel musical as well -- this project will have their leaf prints dancing.
18	3-D DRAWING LESSONS http//www.markkistler.com/lessons.htm PBS's Mark Kistler offers these 3-D drawing lessons online. His cartoon-type style appeals to children and instructions are fairly easy to follow. Students will truly be thrilled with their ability to turn their flat drawings into contours and shapes with shading and perspective.
19	THE IDEA BOX ACTIVITIES http//www.theideabox.com/ideas.nsf/activity Pages of Pre-K activities here, from Bean Pictures to Alphabet Rubbings, to Eggshell Mosaics, and tons more.
20	HOW TO READ A PAINTING http//www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/~projects/critic/index.html Describe, analyze, interpret, and judge -- these are the four artistic elements your students will learn in this lesson plan on How to Read a Painting. Using these techniques will enable your students to approach art with a critical eye, understanding both the principles of design and the elements of art at work.
21	THE VALUES OF COLOR--CREATING TINTS AND SHADES: http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/create/tech_value.html For a primer on tints and shading try the suggestions at this site. Students will learn to blend colors to create secondary colors and create muted or heightened effects with color and pressure.
22	COLOR WHEEL AND PIGMENTATION http://www.mauigateway.com/~donjusko/colorwheel.htm Find an excellent color wheel to use with your art class, emphasizing variations in pigmentation and with more spokes than most.
23	COLOR WHEEL DYNAMICS http://www.artdsign.com/color_wheel.htm Find a graphic representation of color interaction and a glossary of basic color terms at this site.
24	COLOR WHEELS AND COLOR THEORY: http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/hm/Sep97/0004.html Find some suggestions in this posting for teaching color theory... primary and secondary colors, and complimentary colors--for primary grades.
25	DRAW A PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND: http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/sparkers/friend_portrait/portrait_friend.html Working with the premise that artists can often create better portraits by using subjects they are familiar with, this lesson plan gives a few guiding points to elementary artists to help them draw their own friends
26	SELF-PORTRAITS: http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/sparkers/self_portrait/self_portrait.html Mirror, mirror, on the wall... or in the hand, whatever's handy, for this art lesson in drawing a self-portrait.
27	THE ARTS--MAKING FACES, SILHOUETTES, & SELF-PORTRAITS: http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/TheArts.html Find several lessons for creative portraiture, as well as many other art activities at this teacher-contributed site.
28	HERO PORTRAITS: http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/sparkers/heros/hero.html Students will consider who their hero is and why--what are the components of a hero? Several examples with online references are given. They will then create their hero's portrait, giving bold color to their characteristics, and writing something about their hero on a partner index card.
29	ART SAFARI http//artsafari.moma.org/ Students will choose a painting or sculpture to respond to in an interactive question/answer session, which guides students to viewing the art carefully and then composing a story about the art. They may submit their story online.
30	LOTS OF LINES http//www.sanford-artedventures.com/teach/lp_lots_of_lines_contents.html Teach your K-2 students how artists use line in creating art, and then have them experiment with lines of their own. (Visual Art)
31	ART SUPPLY RECIPES http//www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/artrecipes.html From making papier mache paste, to clay recipes, bubble recipes, and paint recipes--have your students help create the materials from scratch for classroom art and science activities.
32	COMPLEMENTARY COLOR PORTRAITS: http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/complimentportrait.htm Students will get an effective art lesson on pairing complementary colors with this art lesson on self-portraiture and complementary colors.
33	Lots of Art lesson plans already done - (from Educators Network) 3/1/02) http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/lessonfeature.htm
34	CARMINE'S LANDSCAPE ADVENTURE http//www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/landscape1/index.html You can either tour this adventure online, or download it to your computer. For primary students, landscape art is defined and explored, and then students will get a chance to create their own landscapes while exploring mood and tone of paintings. 3/4/02
35	INTERACTIVE TIMELINE OF ART http//www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/timeline.html From the Cave Paintings of Lascaux, to Pompeii Wall Art, to Byzantine sculpture, or surrealism--students can click on an interactive timeline to learn about the art, the medium, and the artists. 3/4/02
36	HOW TO READ A PAINTING http//www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/~projects/critic/process.html Students are presented with a viable structure for understanding and viewing museum quality artwork. In this lesson plan, they will proceed through the art appreci-ation stages and then create a guided critique. 3/4/02
37	INSIDE ART http//www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html Take an interactive journey through a painting, and see it from the inside out. Students will learn how to approach paintings with this online art adventure. 3/4/02
38	COLOR CUBES http//www.theideabox.com/ideas.nsf/7c642809039a3f9986256616000ea970/9025137243bb0 548862566a7000b116d?OpenDocument Introduce primary and secondary colors to early elementary students with this little activity. Students will watch colored ice cubes melt together to create a new color.
39	ART EDVENTURES -- COLOR THEORY http//www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/color2/a1.html Take a wonderful art adventure online with these interactive color exercises. Students will follow along a story line and make choices about paintings, artists, complementary colors, primary and secondary colors, tints and shades, moods, and more. Very well done--this adventure should appeal to a wide age group.
40	CREATE MOOD WITH COLOR http//www.sanford-artedventures.com/create/try_this_moody.html After examining a Van Gogh painting and discussing how color can be used to create a mood in art, students will experiment with colored pencils to draw and convey eight different moods.
41	COLOR VALUE -- TINTS AND SHADES http//artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teaching_materials/curricula/curriculum.cfm?curriculum_id =28&mode=full Students will demonstrate an understanding of color values by mixing colors, using tints and shades, and viewing examples from online art galleries.
42	COLOR MATTERS http//www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html For advanced students, there is much to explore here in every aspect of color. For starters, take a look at color theory, how it affects our perception, and how we use it in advertising products. How does our brain interpret colors? Or how does color affect our vision? If a student thinks mathematically in color, is there a connection to creativity? All Explore topics are found in the left-hand frame of this web site
43	AskART http://www.askart.com An impressive online art encyclopedia with alphabetically arranged information about more than 28,000 American artisits 8/12/04
44	TEACHING ART ON A CART: http://www.artteacherconnection.com/pages/artcart.html If you are an art teacher and you don't have your own resource classroom, then you will appreciate the organizational ideas and tips suggested here. (All) 4/20/07

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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle