- American Orff-Schulwerk Association: This site contains information in music and movement instruction and has links for art teachers too!
- Art Education and ArtEdventures: create art, study art, play art games, lesson plans, newsletter
- Art History Resources on the Web: provides a truly comprehensive look at art, including Asian Art, African Art, and even art of Mesoamerica and Oceania. Clicking on any of the dozens of homepage categories brings up innumerable links to text and images. The site also contains a country-by-country list of museums plus image banks, and artist directories.
- Artcyclopedia: This fine arts search engine allows you to search by artist name, artwork title, museum; or browse 7500+ artists by movement, medium, subject, or nationality.
- ArtPad: free, online drawing program
- ArtsConnectEd Classroom: The result of a partnership between The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, and MCI, ArtsConnectEd's goal "is to make arts education timely, engaging, interactive, and pertinent for both teachers and students of all ages." The educational database is searchable by selecting any or all of several parameters or by clicking on "Search Wizard." It is also browseable, and there's even a downloadable Teachers' Guide in PDF format.
- Artsonia Kids Art Museum — The Largest Student Art Gallery on the Web!
- Arts Connect Ed created by teachers, is linked to our two major art museums. The site has an art gallery, library and archives, curriculum to use, and a "playground" site for your students to access.
- ArtsEdge: news, lessons, on-line resources, K-12
- ArtLex is an art dictionary with definitions of more than 3,300 terms plus thousands of images, pronunciation notes, and links.
- Avalon Arts Studio features ideas for teachers: 3D art, construction, printmaking, painting, water colors, paper art, non messy art art, teacher resources, etc.
- Children's Music Web
- Conservator's Studio (Seattle Art Museum) interactively explore four paintings from the Mexican Modernism exhibition through the eyes of a conservator. You'll have a new perspective on the paintings as well as how they are handled and prepared for display. Includes information about conservator's tools and a glossary.
- Creating Music: K-8, As easy as they can finger-paint, children can "draw" musical compositions and listen to their creations, manipulate the tempo of classical music, solve musical puzzles by rearranging the melodies, and experiment with performing music by movement gesture.
- DSO Kids site introduces students to symphonic music amd the orchestra and its instruments. "The Music Room" is a kids only page that is filled with information about composers and the instrument families, sheet music, color sheets, various games and activities, an animated seating chart for different musical periods, and a radio for listening to the audio selections. The Instrument Encyclopedia discuss es each of the instruments with a link to the sound that it makes. Additionally there are instructions for making your own instruments, list of twenty-three general music activities, and twenty-two activities students can do at home. K-12
- Draw and Color with Uncle Fred: step by step directions for drawing various cartoon figures. The method used to teach children to draw cartoons was adapted from the famous Uncle Fred videos.
- Drawing in One-Point Perspective - This site has over one hundred pages of animations and illustrations that introduce the principles of one-point perspective and provide step-by-step instructions for drawing objects in one-point perspective.
- Eyes on Art: provides specific strategies and activities that are designed to lead in a progression.
- Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Art Interactive will show you a few different types of sculpture in the museum and encourage you to explore your own artistic expression by making a piece of art online.
- Kaleidoscope Painter Draw the red dot around the black box to create a kaleidoscope.
- Kinderart: articles on art education; ideas, links and lessons for K-12; artists and art history; contests, and more.
- Lyrics.com: search for lyrics by artist or category
- SFS Kids Fun with Music: Hosted by the San Francisco Orchestra this web site introduces the language of music, the instruments of the orchestra, and visit the music lab to experiment with the sites and sounds of music.
- Smithsonian Jazz: a series of interactive Flash modules that will teach students the fundamentals of jazz with plenty of auditory and visual reinforcement.
- WebMuseum: Glossary of Painting Styles; Although at first glance the homepage seems unimpressive - just a clickable list of 12 major styles from Baroque to Surrealism - the deeper pages will take your breath away. Following the Renaissance link brings up a page explaining that period, and clicking on its embedded links for Botticelli, Titian, or da Vinci brings up first thumbnails and then full-screen photos of some priceless paintings that would ordinarily require a visit to Florence's Uffizi Gallery or St. Petersburg's Hermitage.
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