Sondra Dilks-Avelar
Useful Art Education Websites
www.kids.gov/k_arts.htm
This is a great site offering links to many different art /art ed. Websites. Many of which are interactive.
Some of my favorites include:
www.hirshhorn.si.edu/education/interactive.html
The Hirshhorn museum offers this really cool sculpture interactive site. The site also provides plenty of
information on sculpture. Also, under the education button there is all sorts of cool stuff.
www.nga.gov/home.htm
The national gallery of art ahs excellent art ed. on line information and tours of their collections.
Especially great is their NGA Kids section. In it are great kid’s guides to Egyptian Art, Mayan Art &
the art of Romare Bearden (2nd grade Pa. artists, 5th grade American artists)
There is a great interactive called collage. This is a wonderful follow up for Bearden. Also you’ll find
great stuff on Saint George and the Dragon (5th –Medieval Art), Wassily Kandinsky 2nd European art),
and Frank Stella (5th –Modern Art or famous American Artists, 3rd grade elements and principles study,
1st grade American artists). There is a musical children’s tour of the sculpture garden.
www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html
African Art online exhibit with great images and descriptions (5th grade African Art)
www.smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/smartkids/index.html
I would say K-6. 4 sections:
1. Art Studio—Meet an artist, tour her studio, & develop a photo.
2. Look and Share—Teaches different ways to look at art (Standards 9.3—Criticism)
3. Art detective—Follow clues to match artworks with their history. (Standard 9.2—Historical &
Cultural Context)
4. Art Speak—provides definitions for words used to describe art. (Standards 9.1.c, & 9.3-Criticism)
www.seattleartmuseum.org/default.asp
This is the Seattle Art Museum. Go under schools & teachers. You’ll find great interactive links such
as:
1. Conservator’s studio—in depth look at 2 of Frida’s paintings and 2 of Diego’s paintings. (Standards
9.2—Historical & Cultural context, 9.3 Critical response, & 9.4 Aesthetic response)
2. African Art (Standards 9.2—Historical & Cultural context, 3rd & 5th grade African Art)
3. Egypt Gift of the Nile (Standards 9.2—Historical & Cultural context, 3rd & 5th grade African Art)
4. How does art tell stories? Art & Literacy program
5. Impressionism (Standards 9.2—Historical & Cultural context, 9.3 Critical response, 2nd grade
Impressionism,)
6. My art. Kids learn how museums put together collections. They then create their own on line
museum collection. (Standards 9.3 Critical response, & 9.4 Aesthetic response)
www.metmuseum.org/explore/justforfun.asp
Metropolitan Museum’s online “just for fun” page. This page provides information/sites on
Romare Bearden (9.2, 2nd grade Pa. artists, 5th grade-Am. Artists), Knights in Central Park—Armor
collection (9.2, 3rd & 5th Medieval Art) Carpet Hunt—closely explores an intricate Indian carpet(9.2,
4th grade Asian Art), Korean dragons (9.2, 4th grade Asian Art) What is it? Shows details of works.
Kids guess what the whole is.
www.haringkids.com
Keith Haring information and interactive website (9.2, 2nd grade Pa. Artists, 5th art & health combo.--art with a
health message)
www.artlex.com/ArtLex/t/tesselation.html
Tessellations (Math standards 2.8 & 2.9, 9.1, 5th grade tessellations)
www.artcyclopedia.com
Great research website—artists, art movements, techniques and styles—(4th & 5th research projects)
www.renaissanceconnection.org
Allentown Museums Renaissance page (3rd & 5th Renaissance art, 9.2)
www.mathcats.com
Simple interactive tessellation site under math cats explore. (Math standards 2.8 & 2.9, 9.1, 5th grade
tessellations)
www.coolmath.com
Another tessellation site, found under “ages 13-100”. (Math standards 2.8 & 2.9, 9.1, 5th grade tessellations)
www.whytownps.sa.edu.au
Art styles, artists, teacher/student information, good information on art elements. (9.2, 9.1.c, 9.3, elements
study in 3rd grade)
www.kn.pacbell.com
A learning to look at art curriculum (9.3 & 9.4)
www.michelangelo.com
A website devoted to Michelangelo and his artwork. (9.2, 5th grade renaissance study)
www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu
Egyptian site form the United Kingdom Museum. Great interactive games and lots of information.
(9.2, 3rd and 5th grade Egyptian art unit)
www.guardians.net
This site contains information and links for all you want to know or teach about ancient Egypt and its art.
(9.2, 3rd and 5th grade Egyptian art unit)
www.warhol.org
The Warhol museum site(2nd Pa. artists, 5th American artists, 9.2)
www.artcyclopedia.com
art museums, art images, art styles, and over 8,000 art images
(9.2, 9.3, 9.4)
www.artlex.com
art dictionary (9.1.C)
www.cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Ancient_Civilizations/index.htm
ancient civilizations links. (Aztec, Egyptian, Greek, India, Rome, etc…) (9.2, 9.3)
www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/ARTiculationFinal/MainPages/index.htm
A learning to look interactive website for older elementary-secondary kids (9.1a, b, c, 9.2, 9.3)
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/gmuvava/index.html
Egyptian art website, kid friendly
http://members.aol.com/sabbeth/monet.html
Interactive Monet website (9.1, 9.2,9.3 and 9.4)
http://www.artbma.org/education/matisse_kids_frame.html
Interactive Matisse website
http://www.rainforestjewel.com/index.asp?cat=51291
Information on South American art/Rainforest art
http://www.panart.com/index.html
A website offering a lot of information about the art of Panama. (S. American Art--9.2)
Also provides great links to other websites offering information on ethnic art.
this is one of the ones I checked out. http://www.crossroadstrade.com/ it sells samples. it also provides great-concise--background information.
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/orangerie/stylesa.html
Rousseau interactive reading website
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/le_douanier_rousseau/dream.htm
Another good Rousseau site
Teacher/Planning sites
www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/arteducation.htm (http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/arteducation.htm)
See attached for description of all link
www.davis-art.com/artimages/index.asp
Davis art catalog of slide images
www.everythingesl.net/
Everything you need for ESL instruction.
www.ed.gov/free/index.html
Educational resources from the government- Art link
www.gamequarium.com/
A portal to 100’s of educational games and interactive sites for education pre k-6.
www.3-wishes.com/arttech/tutorials.html
Portal to great art lesson ideas, tips and links
www.historylink101.com/history_of_art.htm
art history ideas and lessons for secondary classes. (could modify most for elementary)
www.interventioncentral.org/
website providing information on positive classroom behaviors and interventions
www.davis-art.com/schoolarts/
School arts magazine information and articles online
www.smithsonian.org/
Smithsonian lesson plans, teaching art information, online tours and information for kids as well.
www.pafa.org/splashFlash.jsp
Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts web site
www.disciplinehelp.com
Discipline and behavior management
www.pde.state.pa.us
Pennsylvania department of education page
www.edweek.org
Education Week research center
www.princetonol.com/groups/iad
Art lessons and other information
http://www.sctboces.org/toolbox/template.cfm?ID=1394&P=B
Interactive sites “Ms. Pint’s classroom” for teachers of art-planning and art students studies
http://www.moma.org/education/multimedia.html
MOMA”s teacher information center—includes info. on planning and resources for purchase.
Reader’s Theatre Sites
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/ Scripts and tips on readers theatre. Very informative and helpful site
http://loiswalker.com/catalog/teach.html
Descriptive site offering advice, tips and free scripts
http://www.literacyconnections.com/ReadersTheater.html
The literacy connections site offers links to many informative and useful sites on readers theatre
http://www.proteacher.com/070173.shtml
Provide lots of links, many with information on scrip format and writing
http://hometown.aol.com/rcswallow/WhereWildThings.html
Script for Where the Wild Things Are-6 characters