AEContent - Web Links

sources for lesson plans, curricula, materials, processes. This section also includes links to royalty-free clip-art, historic photos, line art and photography; useful for collaging, illustration or new media projects.

	Web Link	Hits
	In View Intended for fun, inspiration, and a perspective 'In View' features a historic or contemporary work of art each week along with music, notes, quotes, and a short list of resources for art educators and the general public.	227
	Creativity Portal Inspiration and Support for Artists of All Kinds	319
	Rubric Builder from the site: "As teachers increasingly design online learning experiences for their students, evaluation of those activities remains a challenge. The Rubric Builder enables teachers to build effective assessment rubrics and to make them available o	282
	Art - Math - Science From the site "Links to help integrate Math, Science and Art in the Middle School Art Program. Many links for High School and Elementary too.". This links list is part of the Incredible Art Department (also linked here at AEC). Direct links to webs	373
	Gateway to Educational Materials From the site: "The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites."	206
	Finding Images Online This is a links page to many sites that feature images, arranged by category. Complied by Paula Berinstein.	289
	Magazine Art A visual database of historic (late 19th-early 20th century) magazine cover art.	150
	Civilizations I just was exploring this site and it seems to have a fairly informative link for Egyption studies. The Web paage has a multitude of links for social studies and art curriculum use.	258
	SmartArt Kids Flash-enabled interactive site for kids. Introduction to art and artists. An offshoot of the Smart Museum from the University of Chicago	219
	Website of Snaith Primary School This site has many exciting links about many ancient cultures for students' and teachers' use. I have used the Aztec site alot. It offers students and teachers great information, visual representation and background on Aztec culture. The Aztec cal	192
	Flying Pig USA Paper automata models (commercial site). Great projects for interdisciplinary art, mechanics or technology classes. Most of the paper animations (which are really cute) cost around US$8. There is also a set of free kits (PDFs) and an education sectio	154
	Teaching with Historic Places National park service site. Contains lesson plans for national park service sites	218
	The Kennedy Center Arts Edge One of the most cited and linked-to arts curriculum resource sites, ArtsEdge features lessons, theme units, teacher resources and publishing opportunities for educators	442
	MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom. Excellent site!	140
	Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. Ms. Schrock has been maintaining this list since 1995. She is currently the Administrator for Technology for the Nauset Public Schools in Orleans, MA.	172
	Davis Publications Homepage for Davis Publications. You can use the site to search their database of more than 40,000 slides.	160
	The Web Gallery of Art The Web Gallery of Art contains over 11,600 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are commented the site also includes biographies of the significant	132
	Exploring Leonardo A resource for teachers and students developed by the Museum of Science, Boston for the Science Learning Network. While the lesons and projects on these pages were designed primarily for grades 4-8, they can be adapted for older or younger students	148
	The @rt room The @rt room features "activity" centers, webquests, lessons, rated links, and fun projects that encourage self directed exploration and new ideas. Maintained by Dr. Craig Roland, Associate Professor of Art Education, at the University of Florida.	217
	KinderArt Online since 1996. Huge collection of more than 800 free lessons and art classroom resources	254
	Crayola Art Educators Index Mainpage for the Crayola educator resources.	327
	Art Studio Chalkboard Resource for artists and art students. Tutorials, Lessons that focus on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting. Site compiled and designed by Ralph Larmann	189
	Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall Collection of grafitti art from around the world.	137
	Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids The site includes a huge collection of holiday and subject theme craft projects. An ok resource, if you're looking for easy to read craft recipes to incorporate into lessons. Projects generally suitable for k-6	142
	Color Matters Extensive site, all about color	251
	The New The Way Things Work Web site for the book by David Macaulay. Features a few examples. New edition out now.	174
	Smithsonian Office of Imaging, Printing and Photo Services The Office of Imaging and Photographic Services is the Smithsonian's central source for the creation, processing, distribution and archival storage of photographs and digital images.	162
	Portrait Artist features lessons and tutorials for drawing portraits	202
	The Roland Collection The Roland Collection contains the work of 230 film directors from 25 countries. Over 600 films on art from prehistoric times to the present day. Access (stream) many of the titles for free at the site.	121
	Prints and Photographs Reading Room From the Library of Congress. Search for prints from the more than 13.7 million images in the Library's collection. These include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings.	142
	Blue Web'n A Library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web. Links to outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).	165
	FirstGov Graphics and Posters Links to public domain graphic files from the FirstGov (the US government web portal). Links to files and pages that feature everything from pictures of bald eagles and the earth to historical personalities, activists, national archive collections an	202
	100 Art Ideas You can do Yourself By Rob Pruitt. This site is simply a slide show of hundred suggestions for art and creativity projects. Some of these could be worked into a lesson, or a free period. Some of these might inspre YOU. (Not all of these are suitable for schools, but som	227
	CGFA Virtual Art Museum Decent quality scans of art from 1300-1900s. Limited text, but this could be a useful site to get content for art history lectures. You may copy any of the scans for non-commercial purposes.	125
	Ceramics and Pottery (6 unit course) Online course materials. From the site: "the purpose of this site is to make the job easier if you teach an Introduction to Ceramics and Pottery Class."	177
	Community-Indexed Photo Archive Copyright-free images collected from a variety of sources. Includes images of: Wildlife, Animals, Plants, Environments, Earth from Space, Space Shuttle, Planets, Moons, Historical NASA Photos, etc., Oceans, Animals, Underwater Life, Weather,	165
	Images in the Public Domain Large image resource maintained by David Dailey, an associate professor of Computer Science at Slippery Rock University. Good collage resource.	200
	ArtsEdNet: The Getty's Art Education Web Site (formerly ArtsEdnet) This site is an indispensable tool for the art educator. Not only does it contain comprehensive lesson plans and curriculum ideas, but it also offers image galleries with exhibitions, talk forum,as well as an index and internal	185
	North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts A handy and useful site for art educators. It provides lesson ideas as well as links for research.	141
	Asian Art This is a great site for educators. It offers a link to museums with Asian Art as well as displays maps, timelines, philosophies and lesson plans of Asian Art.	162
	Old Fashioned Clip Art Victorian and 19th century clip art. Copyright-free.	164
	How to Make and use a Pinhole Camera Instructions from Kodak's website.	168
	History of Illustration There is not much original content here, but this site tried to organize the history of illustration and includes many links to artist's sites and resources. A good jumping off site.	142
	Art Renewal Center Website dedicated to promoting the merits of 19th century Academy painting and refuting much 20th century aesthetic critisism. The site features many beautiful reproductions of figurative painting (spanning 17th-20th century)	396
	UpClose: focus on contemporary sculpture Curriculum developed by The International Sculpture Center, Grounds for Sculpture and Nottingham High School in Hamilton, New Jersey	127
	Eyes on Art "a learning to look" curriculum. Varios quizes, idea starters, thought generators. Eyes on Art has been on the web since 1995. Completely redesigned and re-thought in 2001.	194
	Drawing in One-Point Perspective Step-by-step instructions for basic one-point perspective.	157
	A lifetime of color Sponsored by Sanford (the sharpie people), this site features color activities, lessons and teacher resources.	151
	Impressionism "Download or browse eight teacher lessons introducing the major themes of Impressionism; plans are geared towards grades 1-8."	124
	The Artist's Toolkit Interactive presentation of the visual elements and principles, explained in simple terms. Seems geared for elementary-age. Found at the excellent artsconnected website.	196
	Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection Medium resolution line art from various sources. Could be used in collages or as examples of woodcut art.	184
	Intro Lessons online activities for talking about art. From the Eyes on Art Curriculum.	168
	Art Theory Guide Concise overview of art theory, contexts, postmodernism, the art market and more. Useful for sorting out a variety of art semiotics and POV.	161
	The Private Eye From the site: The Private Eye is a program about the drama and wonder of looking closely at the world, thinking by analogy, changing scale and theorizing. Designed to develop higher order thinking skills, creativity and scientific literacy - across	187
	ArtsWork ARTS Education Resource Center Lessons and resources for art educators from Herberger College of Fine Arts (ASU)	155
	Las Mujeres Las Mujeres (The Women) provides various resources on notable Latin women. Artists, writers, performers, politicians. Including information about Frida Kahlo, Christina Garcia, Celia Cruz, Eva Peron and others.	194
	Art, Design and Visual Thinking An Interactive Textbook by Charlotte Jirousek (Cornell University). This is a great site for learing the basic elements and principles of design. Her definitions are accompanied by good images, and are presented in a clear, easy to understand manner.	152
	NGA Kids Home to the ArtZone with online projects, interactive games and art-making utilities, special education pages, resources. Great supplemental site to the National Gallery of Art.	143
	Timeline of Art History From the Metropolitian Museum of Art. Visually rich timelines of art history from various regions. Features art from the Met collection.	141
	Making Sense of Modern Art From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This flash site provides a look into the purpose and meaning of modern art featuring items from their collection. Divided into three main sections: Art in Context, Themes and Comparisons over Time.	142
	The Painting Lesson "A great big illustrated glossary of words used by painting teachers." A website of terms, technique and humorus advice from Linda Carson of big black pig studio.	146
	Art Images for College Teaching A free-use Educational Image Resource. From the Site: "Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl . AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images	144
	Chinese Mandala Sand Painting Chinese Mandala Sand Painting Lesson Plan (with many links!) from the website: China: Dim Sum: A Connection to Chinese-American Culture	164
	Map Fold-outs (polyhedra) from the site: "Print, cut, fold and glue paper polyhedra to create your own pseudoglobe." The site containe PDFs of different polyhedra globes that can be cut and folded together.	196
	Origami - Folding Instructions This is a marvelous master list of origami resources and links to complex folding instructions. Origami can be a great way to introduce three dimensional thinking and sculptural concepts into a classroom. Especially if you have few resources to work	193
	The Gateway to Educational Material Searchable links provide easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. Looks like a promising portal.	112
	The National Gallery of Art The NGA's website features many reproductions from the Gallery and teaching resources and online curriculum for a variety of age-groups	129
	Getty Museum Explore Art site entrance.	169

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