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Websites for Studentswww.whitneydoceo.org/servlet/gatewayAn educational website created by the Whitney Museum, “Doceo” is an extremely engaging online resource for students. Visitors establish a free account—no personal information or surveys responses are required—in order to gain access to a variety of games and activities, including their own personalized online journal in which they can write entries and insert accompanying images from the museum’s collection. Additionally, a number of works from the museum are available for students to use in creating their own comics; students simply “point and click” in order to insert speech bubbles and text of their own creation.
www.eduweb.com/pintura/index.html “A. Pintura Art Detective” is a free online game designed for students in grades four through twelve. Students will enjoy directing A. Pintura’s search for the true identity of a stolen painting; as he questions witnesses, information about visual arts concepts and several well-known western artists is revealed. Teacher’s resources, including a worksheet based on the game, are also available.
http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/davin2.shtml? Created through collaboration by American and Swedish high school students, “Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?” is a fun website that will encourage student enthusiasm for the arts. While some aspects of the site are only sparsely developed, it does boast resources that might be hard to find elsewhere, such as downloadable files of music composed by Leonardo Da Vinci himself.
Websites for Teacherswww.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/index.html “Eyes On Art: A Learning to Look Curriculum” provides in-depth help to teachers who wish to incorporate arts learning into their classrooms. Based on the arts education standards of the state of California, the site offers a variety of features, including detailed glossaries and sample images with which students can create their own “monitor” museums online. Visit the “Teacher’s Guide” link on the first page of the website for a more detailed description of the wealth of resources available here.
www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html Created by a professor at the University of Florida, “Art Room” is a visually appealing and easily navigable website with a variety of resources for making and viewing art with children. Though some aspects of “Art Room” are underdeveloped, the site’s spare style becomes an asset in its judiciously chosen listing of online and print resources. Only links to high quality websites are offered; additionally, an “especially recommended” list of art-related children’s books accompanies the site’s more comprehensive listing of over 60 selections.
Maintained by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, “ArtsEdNet” provides a number of valuable resources for teachers. Unlike many arts-related websites for educators and younger students, “ArtsEdNet” offers teaching materials based on artworks from a variety of cultures. Search the lesson plan listing by grade level or subject matter; alternatively, involve your class in an art discussion based on collections of museum images and accompanying study questions posted online.
http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/art-to-zoo/landscape/cover.html The Smithsonian offers two free, detailed lesson plans for teaching students about landscape painting. Vocabulary lists, study questions and recommended print and online resources are included.
www.moma.org/docs/education/momalearning/ www.moma.org/docs/education/makingchoices/ www.moma.org/docs/education/openends/ These study resources from MoMA provide a series of images and related questions for teachers to pose to their students. Though each set of study materials is based on a specific art historical period, all of them seek to teach students how to look at any work of art from any period. Though the suggested study questions may initially seem too simplistic for older students, they may yield deeper answers if they are considered at length.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ Search the Kennedy Center’s website for a detailed listing of arts lesson plans available online. Though the site offers a large quantity of lesson plans, they are not categorized by specific subject area, and visitors may have to sift through pages of unrelated materials in order to locate those that are of interest to them.
“EdHelper” offers arts lesson plans organized by category. Over 125 art history lessons and over 250 visual arts lessons are available through “EdHelper.”
http://www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/matchtmp.html “Trash Matcher” is a useful page for educators who wish to acquire inexpensive art materials for their students and engage in the environmentally healthy act of recycling. The page pairs a number of “throwaway” materials with art projects in which students can incorporate them. Click on the title of the desired project in order to locate more detailed information about how to create it.
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