Links for Students and Elementary Art Teachers  

Student Resources for Teachers by Mrs. Polly Halim

Living Color
an Australian Museum Website about color
Art Detective Web Site
An engaging art activity, where students become art detectives to figure out who painted granpa's painting.
Visit the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Visit the Children's Museum of Indianapolis to learn about art and science and much more.
The Getty Museum Site for Kids
A very comprehensive site for students, parents and art educators. Includes activities, lessons, image galleries, and much more.
A Lifetime of Color (from Sanford)
Study art, create art, play art games and more.

Crayola Lesson Plans
Loads of lessons from the crayon giant, searchable by materials, grade level, time frame, and curriculum.

Educational Web Adventure
The National Museum of Wildlife Art provides a place for students to learn about pests, aquatic science, dentistry and more!

Inside Art: An Adventure in Art History
An online journey where students learn about artists and styles of art, while being engaged in an adventure.

Art Resources in Teaching
A not-for-profit organization which brings visual arts education into Chicago’s elementary school classrooms. The A.R.T. method of teaching emphasizes observation, discussion, writing and hands-on art making experiences.

Americans for the Arts

A not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the arts in America.

 

 
The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge
This site provides art educators with teaching materials, news, information and resources. Its mission centers around using technology to contribute to the field of arts education.
Drawing in One-Point Perspective
A great hands-on tutorial for students, interactive and instructive. Students are asked to demonstrate understanding of perspective and get immediate feedback to their answers.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
This site has a searchable index of over 82,000 images. The rationale for making the images available to the public via the Internet is because the Museum is unable to show less than 5% of it collection at any time and it wishes to make its art available to the public.

Destination: Modern Art
Destination: Modern Art, designed especially for children ages five to eight, features a visitor from outer space who is sent to Earth on a mission to explore modern art. At MoMA, the friendly alien investigates Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889) and other works and then looks for "art in unusual places" at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.
© copyright 2005 the Museum of Modern Art


Adventures with Art
From the National Gallery of Art, these online activities and projects for children are rich with animation, sound, visuals and interactivity.

Color Matters
A comprehensive site dedicated to color. Read about color as it relates to the brain, the body, our vision, our world, science, computers, design, and much more. Interact by taking a color survey.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
Links for teachers and students will help you to tour the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
How Does Art Tell Stories?
This site, from the Seattle Art Museum, asks children to explore pictures and earn candy on their way. Be sure to explore other kids' topics here: Explore Korea (Visiting Grandfather's House), Impressionism Painting, Egyptian Wigs, and Porcelain Hunt.
The Art Teacher's Connection
This site, created by an elementary art teacher in Arizona, helps art teachers and art students find resources, images, internet art lessons and provides helpful tips on how to integrate computer technology into a visual arts curriculum.
Making a Case for the Fourth "R" (ART!)
"Reading and ’riting and ’rithmetic and ’rt (art)? Many school districts are strengthening the art components of their curricula in light of new research on the benefits of arts education." Read this article about how how the arts can engage students who may lack interest in other classes, and how many states are subscribing to this belief with a firm committment to arts education. Many hyperlinks to more research on this timely topic.
Web Museum

Student Resources for Art by Ms. Halim

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