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ARTS EDUCATION

Arts Education Links

Arts: On-Site and On-Line
This web site contains a list of the "promising practices" for using the Internet to foster improved education and collaboration between arts organizations and schools. The information and recommendations contained here may be useful for: K-12 teachers when looking for educational resources on the Internet; museums and arts organizations when creating educational electronic resources; performing arts institutions, museums, and K-12 schools when planning collaborative educational projects that will make use of technology and the Internet; and the larger community of individuals and organizations wishing to make effective use of electronic educational materials.

ArtsEdNet
ArtsEdNet, an online service developed by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, supports the needs of the K-12 arts education community. It focuses on helping arts educators, general classroom teachers using the arts in their curriculum, museum educators, and university faculty involved in the arts.

ArtsZone
Use this site to help enrich your students' experience with arts documentaries from OVATION: The Arts Network. Build lesson plans, find resources, connect the films with other parts of your curriculum. Students can post their art, writing, and compositions in the Gallery, join the conversation in the Discussion Group, or enter their work in one of the Contests. OVATION also has a lending library for teachers who aren't yet within the reach of its cable signal.

AskERIC
A federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.

Barrett Kendall Internet Schoolhouse
Offers a variety of links to educational resources on the WWW along with an online catalog of interactive educational publications offered by Barrett Kendall Publishing.

Blue Web'n Applications Library
Attempts to identify good educational resources on the Internet.

Commentary on Art
An introduction to writing about art. Assignments, readings, and other information. By Jerrold Maddox, Penn State University.

Curriculum Design - ARTSEDGE
Includes standards, frameworks, and guidelines for designing curriculum, materials, and programs for the arts.

Dancing in Streets
Dancing in the Streets is a not-for-profit performing arts organization. It presents dance and interdisciplinary performances on the unexpected stages of parks, architectural landmarks, and neighborhood spaces. Dancing in the Streets brings the work of innovative artists to new audiences, promotes the performing arts as an integral part of public life, and captures the imagination of a diverse public with performance events that draw attention to unusual architecture or natural settings.

Documents International: Identity - Seattle Art Museum
The exhibition, opening at the Seattle Art Museum on April 1998, has been designed and curated by Seattle middle school students. The students selected the art from museum storage, wrote the text panels, and helped install the exhibit. This unique exhibition explores the theme of identity in many cultures across the globe.

Exit Studio
A source for educational and multicultural tools for the creative child. They have books and videos to inspire learning, lesson plans for teachers, activities to do at home, and always something new.

FLIX Productions Animated Educational Software
Offers a collection of educational software games - many related to the arts.

Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership
Over 100 national organizations committed to promoting arts education in elementary and secondary schools throughout the country have joined the Partnership to help states and local school districts tap the resources available through the Goals 2000 legislation.

Golden Gate University CyberCampus
Golden Gate University offers online courses that allow students to earn professional certificates, update their skills, or accelerate the completion of degree programs without the inconvenience and expense of commuting to class. Students can apply, attend class, and interact with their professors and fellow students without ever setting foot on campus.

Kids and Television
In a country where children watch an average of 3 to 4 hours of television programming each day, the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics in early August demand more examination than has been offered in the press so far. The child who watches 3-4 hrs/day of noneducational TV will have seen 8,000 murders by the time they finish grade school and sees more than 20,000 commercials each year. The fundamental questions are: What's good for kids? How do parents get the tools they need to do right by their kids concerning media. This Benton Foundation Digital Beat provides a closer look at the AAP's recommendations, outlines the arguments for media literacy training, looks at additional guidelines for parents, and highlights the opportunities for you to get involved in the policy arena.

MarcoPolo
A partnership that brings together six discipline-specific web sites to offer educators no-cost, high quality, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 classroom-brings together the WorldCom Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council of the Great City Schools, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Council on Economic Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Geographic Society. The partnership offers K-12 teachers the very best lesson plans and interactive learning tools, engaging content, panel-reviewed links, and professional development resources, including training on integrating Internet content into the classroom-all at no cost.

National Arts and Education Organizations
A directory organized by state.

National PTA Arts in Education Resource Libraries
A varied collection of resources to assist parents and other advocates in their efforts to support arts education programs in the schools.

Ovation, The Arts Network
OVATION is the only television network devoted exclusively to the arts, featuring performance and documentary style programming on the visual arts, theater, opera, classical music and jazz, architecture, literature and dance.

Play Music
PlayMusic, developed by the American Symphony Orchestra League, allows kids and adults to "play" and learn about different orchestral instruments online.

Teacher/Pathfinder Educational Village
Offers easy access to quality educational materials. Teacher Pathfinder was formed with the goal that a teacher could go to the site and with little training, very easily arrive at their end point.

Teacher's Edition Online
Lesson plans and ideas, classroom management tips, and more.

The Curriculum Studio
Designed to guide teachers seeking innovative instructional strategies and resources to enhance or expand existing curricula and/or to create curricula that address new standards for the arts and other subject areas.

The Exploratorium: the museum of science, art, and human perception
The Exploritorium offers a number of interactive online exhibits and a large library of lessons and teaching tools that are downloadable.

The Tech Museum of Innovation
The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA is a hands-on technology museum devoted to inspiring the innovator in everyone. The Web site includes a number of online exhibits including Build a Satellite and Climb Mount Everest.

University Galleries - Illinois State U.
Devoted to presenting a wide survey of contemporary art. Focus is generating and traveling exhibitions featuring locally, regionally, and nationally known artists working in a variety of media, styles and conceptual approaches, as well as exhibitions of ISU faculty, student and alumni work.

Virtual Curriculum: Art Education for Elementary Students
This site is designed to aid teachers in the art education of elementary aged children. Many lessons have been written and gathered on various topics, historical time periods, and cultures throughout the world.

Zeum
Zeum is San Francisco's innovative new art and technology center for youth. This Web site lets the visitor step behind-the-scenes and become the director. Produce your own digital video, animate your favorite character with claymation, explore the performing arts and more.

Arts Education Partners

ArtsEdge
An online resource center funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the United States Department of Education and administered by the Kennedy Center Education Department. Its mission is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and share informaiton, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject in the K-12 curriculum. The ArtsEdge website includes:

arts education news
an annotated catalog of websites
K-12 curriculum materials, programs, and strategies
interactive sections for students and the online community
a searchable and browseable database of arts education information directories and resources.
The Arts Education Partnership is a private, nonprofit coalition of education, arts, business, philanthropic, and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in life, school, and work. Formed in 1995 by a partnership between the Arts Endowment, the United States Department of Education, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Partnership now includes over 100 national organizations committeed to promoting arts education in elementary and secondary schools throughout the country. The Partnership's website includes:
a directory of participating organizations and links
a list of state arts education contacts
tips on securing Goals 2000 funds for arts education
project summaries of Goals 2000 subgrants awarded for arts education
Partnership Task Force initiatives and reports
an archive of quarterly Partnership meeting reports
arts education advocacy resources
instructions for subscribing to the Partnership listserv
U.S. Department of Education

Arts Educaiton Assessment Links

Alternative Assessment
Recommendations for designing new assessment strategies and systems based on a new approach to learning and teaching.

DBE:K-12 Assessment
This model accommodates all forms of assessment and can be applied formally or informally to evaluate any learning experience or program. Using the model as a framework for assessment - and communication about it- reinforces understanding of its dimensions while assuring their effective application.

The ERIC®Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
An Educational Resources Information Center that seeks to provide 1) balanced information concerning educational assessment and 2) resources to encourage responsible test use.

Arts Education Pedagogy

American Educational Research Association
Concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.

Lincoln Center Institute
The purpose of the Lincoln Center Institute is to foster the development of aesthetic education as an important part of learning through educational partnerships with school districts. The focus is on developing skills of perception through greater understanding of art forms, of how artists make choices and how these understandings relate to other aspects of life.

National Art Education Association
To promote art education through Professional Development, Service, Advancement of Knowledge, and Leadership. NAEA is a non-profit, educational organization.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
The representative association for a diverse constituency of non-profit, non-degree-granting community schools of the arts in the United States and Canada. The mission of the Guild is to foster, nurture and encourage high quality arts education designed to meet community needs and to provide services and programs for the benefit of its member schools.

New Horizons for Learning
Since 1980, New Horizons for Learning has served as a leading-edge resource for educational change. Their role has been to explore and to help implement ideas that have not yet reached the mainstream, and to work in coordination with other networks and learning communities.

PedagoNet
Facilitates the exchange of learning resources. Search and post learning resources, curriculum, lessons, books, software and other pedagogical information.

String Education Resources
This resource will bring together resources in multiple formats for practicing string educators and those preparing to enter the field of string education. It is hoped that it will lead to increased interaction, especially for those teaching away from urban areas.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
A resource for writers, educators, and students in the greater New York City area and a link to teachers and writers across the country.

Teaching European Literature & Culture
A potentially very useful collection of essays published electronically by Oxford University's "Computers in Teaching Initiative" (CTI)-- Textual Studies on using computer technology in the teaching of analytical and critical skills in literary and cultural studies. The essays "document and reflect on the successes or otherwise of a diverse group of projects and teaching situations."

Young Audiences/New York
Is one of New York City's largest arts-in-education organizations, serving primarily the New York City public schools. They offer educational residencies and auditorium programs in music, dance, theater, creative writing, and the visual arts to students from grades Pre-K through 12.

Arts Education Service Organizations

National Art Education Association
To promote art education through Professional Development, Service, Advancement of Knowledge, and Leadership. NAEA is a non-profit, educational organization.

National Association for Music Education (MENC)
MENC's membership has grown to nearly 90,000 including active music teachers, university faculty and researchers, college students preparing to be teachers, high school honor society members and MusicFriends. This site also includes job info, publications, and much more resources in music education.

Young Audiences
Creating community collaborations for arts and education

Dance Education

A History of Pointe Shoes and Pointe Technique
They evolved together; they created each other. But the pointe shoe itself is seldom given recognition for its role in steering the development of technique.

Brad Appleton's Stretching and Flexibility FAQ
Techniques, ideas and suggestions.

Contact Improvisation
This page is intended to inform people interested in Contact Improvisation about jams, workshops, classes and teachers. Contact Improvisation can be described as a post-modern folk dance or a process for finding new choreographic ideas. It's usually done as a duet (but sometimes solo or in larger groups), it's usually in silence; and it's improvised. Dancers are as likely to be on the floor as standing, and sometimes they're flying on someone else's shoulders

Del's Dance Book
Documents renaissance dance and includes a bibliography.

Macarena Lessons
Online dance lessons with music.

Pow Wow Dance Styles
Pow Wow Dance styles and other information on Southern Native American Pow Wows. These pages offer basic information about the different dances.

The Dance & Technology Zone (D&TZ)
Is a resource for artists and others who are particularly interested in using new media and information technologies in the creation and performance of dance, dance theater and related live performance works.

The Electric Ballerina
Learn more about ballet (or just have fun!) by downloading these computer-generated simulations of steps and positions.

Literature Education

Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
Contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States. Archives are created and maintained by the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) at Georgetown University's American Studies Program.

Craft Of Writing
A huge collection of resources related to the craft of writing. Includes links to Online Courses and workshops.

Electro Magnetic Poetry Kit
A fun page that allows you to drag words around and form lines of poetry. Well worth the visit.

John Hewitt's Writer's Resource Center
Thousands of links, along with articles, job opportunities and book reviews for beginning and professional writers.

KidNews
Is a free news and writing service for students and teachers around the world. Anyone may use stories from the service for educational purposes, and anyone may submit stories. They also invite comments about the news gathering, teaching, and computer-related issues in the Discussion sections for students and teachers.

Life of St Edward the Confessor
Cambridge University Library contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s, and preserved in this manuscript, executed c. 1250-60. A masterpiece of mid thirteenth-century English illumination, the present manuscript preserves vital evidence for the study of the hagiographical writings about St Edward sponsored by Henry III (1216-72), and also for the complexity and sophistication of English pen and wash narrative art in this period.

Literary Leaps
A collection of essential online resources for the emerging to mid-career working writer, developed by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). The goal here is to provide just thirty some reviews and direct connections to solid, useful online resources that you'll find yourself returning to regularly.

Literary Links
Numerous literary links organized into categories or genres.

LitLine
LitLine is a project of the Unit for Contemporary Literature at Illinois State University, created for the purpose of offering free web presence to small presses and journals and to establish a central space for independent literature on the web. Among the offerings are home pages for alternative fiction presses, avant-garde poetry magazines, literary organizations, and the like.

Screenwriters/Playwrights Page
Contains information on screenwriters, playwrights, film, theatre, screenplays, stage plays, writing tips, writing resources, writing classes.

Shakespeare Web
An interactive, hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays and other works.

The Language Construction Kit
The Language Construction Kit is intended for anyone who wants to create artificial languages-- for a fantasy or an alien world, as a hobby, as an interlanguage. It presents linguistically sound methods for creating naturalistic languages-- which can be reversed to create non-naturalistic languages.

The Read In!
The Read In! is a one-day-a-year Internet event that helps hundreds of thousands of children around the world talk to famous authors and with each other.

The Write Place
Offers you tools, inspiration, and resources for writing of all kinds, from writing for work and school, to journal writing for personal growth and creativity. There's also a collaborative writing project and areas for you to read and share interesting writing.

Media Education

Defining Documentary Film
This hypertext essay on documentary film takes on as its mission a daunting task: defining criteria for the identification of "documentary film" and subsequently applying them to Michael Moore's Roger and Me.

EDSITEment Lesson Plans
The purpose of EDSITEment is to offer a gateway for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. This section of the site offers lesson plans for all grade levels covering a wide range of topics.

EDSITEment Web Sites
The purpose of EDSITEment is to offer a gateway for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. This page provides numerous web sites for use in the classroom.

Kodak Education Solutions
Use images to enhance the teaching and learning process: higher education partners and imaging projects, K-12 solutions including lesson plans.

Learning Link 2.0
Focus is mostly on video instruction.

VidKids Media Literacy Program
VidKids is an outreach program that was initiated by the UCR/California Museum of Photography in 1992. The project gives elementary-age students an opportunity to learn the technical and creative aspects of video and related media.

Technology Education

Art Appreciation course on the web
A self-paced, entirely on-line, independent but interactive Art Appreciation course made available through Southern Utah University.

Barriers to Learning in Distance Education
Loss of student motivation due to the lack of face-to-face contact with teachers and peers, potentially prohibitive startup costs, and lack of faculty support are all barriers to successful distance learning. This literature review explores distance learning and its barriers.

Consortium for Interactive Instruction (C.I.I.)
Is a user-directed, user-funded activity that leads the transformation of education by advocating the most appropriate uses of technology (i.e. computers, videodiscs, modems, etc.) in the classroom.

Electronic Pathways
Is a national nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to ensure that underrepresented and underserved individuals, schools and communities have equal access and opportunity to fully participate in this current technological a information age.

Global SchoolNet Foundation
A major contributor to the philosophy, design, culture, and content of educational networking on the Internet and in the classroom. GSN has had an incredible impact on networking in the K12 community. This site is note exclusively focused on the Arts, but is well worth the visit.

Instructional Technology Connections
A collection of resources managed by the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) School of Education.

Kids' Space
The site has rapidly developed into many sections including creative activities, communication pages, and sections for learning basic computer skills.

New Media Centers
A non-profit, 501(c)3 organization empowering educators to change the way people learn.

Open Studio
The Arts Online is a national initiative of the Benton Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. They provide Internet access and training to artists and nonprofit arts organizations to ensure that the communications environment of the 21st century thrives as a source of creative excellence and diversity.

SyllabusWeb
Is a free service from Syllabus Press, publishers of Syllabus magazine and producers of the annual Syllabus conference. This site contains useful information on technologies used to enhance education.

Teaching and Learning on the Web
This searchable collection includes sites that are using the World Wide Web for more than just surfing - places that are using the technology for learning.

Technological Horizons in Education
News on the world of computers & related technologies, focusing on applications that improve teaching & learning for all ages.

Technology & Learning Magazine Online
The Online Meeting Place for Educators and Parents Interested in Educational Technology. The complete collection of Educational Software Reviews published by Technology & Learning Magazine in a fully searchable online database.

Technology Success Stories
Working hand in hand with schools, IBM has pioneered the evolution and implementation of classroom technology. It's a partnership that matches IBM's expertise and resources with the experience of educators. The results are impressive.

The Fort Hayes Philosophy
This innovative approach has received national recognition: Redbook selected the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center as one of the 50 best high schools in the country in 1991-92 and 1993-94.

The World Right Now
The World Right Now is an extensive geographically indexed list of live outdoor images from around the world.

Theatre Education

America's Finest Educational Consultants
AFEC was founded by successful educators who want to share their outstanding literacy techniques, practices, and materials and is dedicated to helping middle schools and high schools develop college prep programs for all students.

Classes and Workshops for Playwrights
This site offers links to scriptwriting classes on the Internet, playwriting seminars, and related workshops and resources.

Educational Theatre Association/International Thespian Society
A non-profit arts education service organization, devoted to promoting and supporting educational theatre programs, primarily but not exclusively at the middle and high school levels.

Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing
Essays that offer step by step instruction on the craft of creating dramatic stories.

High School Theatre Programs
This is a collection of other high school theatre sites on the web. They also offer a collection of theater related links.

Improv Games
The Living Playbook to pick a game, then examine Hugh's list for a more detailed description and playing hints.

Improv Page
A clearinghouse for information about improvisational theatre.

Kids for Broadway
Formerly known as the Way-Off Broadway Theatre Network, this children's theatre organization offers schools age appropriate original plays for students 7-17 and warm-up activity ideas; no royalty fees required!

Missoula Children's Theatre
For twenty-five years Missoula Children's Theatre has provided quality education, entertainment and enrichment for all ages through the performing arts. This season alone more than 40,000 youngsters, from Tokyo to El Paso, will participate as performers in our productions, making MCT America's largest touring children's theatre.

National Standards for Arts Education
Developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations (under the guidance of the National Committee for Standards in the Arts), the National Standards for Arts Education is a document which outlines basic arts learning outcomes integral to the comprehensive K-12 education of every American student, Including Standards for Theatre Education according to the different maturation levels.

Playbill On-Line
Offers a wide range of theatre-related listings and features, and functions as a seven-day-a-week theatre news service. Includes Theatre Central - recognized throughout the theatre and online industries as "the hub of theatre on the Internet" owing to its links to more than 1500 theatre-related websites throughout the world.

Scotts Theatre Links
Your complete guide to all aspects of theatre on the net. This site is an attempt to help you find what you are looking for regarding theatre and is organized to help you efficiently find theatre related information.

Screenwriters & Playwrights Home Page
Designed to meet the special needs of screenwriters and playwrights.

Sources for Plays
Published by the American Association of Community Theatre.

Stage Craft
The reviews on this site are designed to offer playwrights insights into how well-written plays are constructed.

The Dramatic Exchange
A World Wide Web site dedicated to archiving and distributing scripts. They provide a place for playwrights to "publish" and distribute their plays, a place for producers to find new plays they might want to produce, and a place for anyone who is interested in drama to browse.

Visual Arts Education

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
African artifacts have generally been exhibited with reference only to cultural context and use. In view of recent studies of African aesthetic principles and related moral and religious values, there is good reason to emphasize the formal aesthetic aspects of the objects and the moral and religious ideas they express.

Alphabet of Art
Where you can learn about elements of art.

Art & Ecology
Art & Ecology is both a set of resources for teachers and an online exhibition of contemporary ecological art. Selected readings cover a range of books for students and teachers on a variety of environmental, social, and cultural issues and from different subject areas.

Art 211
A large collection of art studio lessons.

Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Two good documents: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin, "Art & Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction" by Julian H. Scaff

Art Studio Chalkboard
These pages are a resource for artists and art students that focus on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting.

ARTnet Nebraska Lessons Plan Index
A collection of illustrated lesson plans.

Aunt Annie's Craft Page
The emphasis of this page is on learning, creativity, and problem-solving while doing craft projects. Each project includes a variety of designs to choose from, patterns to print, and easy to follow instructions. Every project provides hours of enjoyment for both children and adults.

Beginnings of Photographic Composition
One of the main reasons why some pictures are more outstanding than others is because of their strong composition. That's what this program is all about - consider how composition can improve your photographs.

Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE)
Empowering kids to take responsible action in their communities. CUBE carries out this goal by bringing together educators with community partners to effect change which will lead to a quality built and natural environment, one and interdependent.

coloring.com
Allows kids to color pictures online and save them.

Crayola Art Education
Crayola has put together a great site for art education. Lots of fun activities here.

DotPaint
Create your own dot painting on the Internet.

Early Childhood Arts and Crafts
Looking for fresh ideas? The beginning of every month will bring new projects from popular arts and crafts books.

Elements of Art through Photography by Kodak
A class of 28 fifth graders used photography during an art project designed to increase their awareness of five elements of art: line, shape, color, pattern, and composition. Students photographed examples of these elements at school and in their community, and then used the photos as the basis for original art.

Emmett Scott's Cartoon Corner
What does a cartoonist do? How does he draw his cartoons? Well, here is a great place to find out. Welcome to the Art Studio, where a variety of activities can help keep you busy for hours. Learn to draw here, or simply have fun with your imagination.

Eyes on Art
This activity starts by introducing beginning students of art, art history, humanities, and critical thinking (K-14) to the developed skill of "learning to look" artistically. Subsequent activities build upon this skill until learners can insightfully analyze and critique any painting they choose.

Facemaker
This site lets a web surfer experiment with facial animation by controlling a number of parameters that affect the expressions of either a dragon, a dog, a Haida mask, or a human face.

Free Art Lesson on line in Classical Realism technique
By Russian-born artist A. Antonov. Learn how to paint an apple!

Garfield the Cat Coloring Book
Color me hungry! Here's your chance to be a bona fide artiste! Check out these pics of the world-famous fat cat, print out your favorites, add color and voila -- instant masterpiece!

Getty Multicultural Art Print Series
This new set of laminated posters from the Getty encourages your students to understand and appreciate the architectural, artistic, and cultural contexts of five significant cultural heritage sites: Trajan's Forum, Pueblo Bonito, Katsura Villa, the Great Mosque, and the Sydney Opera House.

Global Show-n-Tell
A virtual exhibition that lets children show off their favorite projects, possessions, accomplishments and collections to kids (and adults) around the world.

Graphics Den
Will teach you how to use a computer graphics program to create unique digital art. Each lesson takes you from start to finish of a digital project. You can follow our step-by-step instructions to complete a similar project. Or, you can apply what you learn here to your own computer illustrations.

Hands On Children's Museum
The fun place to be for kids 10 years old and under.

Introduction to Imaging
Issues in Constructing an Image Database

KidsCom
A fun and educational playground for kids 4 to 15.

KODAK: The Language of Light
As photographers, we use the language of light to record and interpret the world around us. How well we understand and use light affects the clarity and expressive power of our pictures.

Learn About Art History Online
An article about art history resources on the Internet. Includes links to some good examples.

Notebook
A reference that provides a foundation in approaches to visual art and suggestions for further reading and directions of exploration in visual art and art history.

On-Line Picasso Project
The On-Line Picasso Project, the first Virtual Picasso Museum on the Internet, has been developed by Texas A&M as a digital archive of scanned images of Picasso's work suitable for teaching and research purposes and to enhance the knowledge of Picasso, the man, through biographical references to events in his lifetime.

Printmaking: NASCO's Free Art Lesson Plan
The lesson plan includes a history of printmaking, description of the materials and tools, and instructions for making block-cut prints.

Spaces and Places
Spaces and Places is the title for an elementary level unit on architecture. The unit leads from a study of spaces and places in buildings, starting with the school building, to a study of what architects do and how they go about their discipline, then on to an introduction of a famous American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Symmetry and Tessellations
Contains links to over 50 sites dealing with symmetry and tessellations (tilings). Includes many Escher related sites.

Teachers Helping Teachers
A collection of art lessons for grades K-12.

The Dark Room
The Art of the Cyanotype, How to Care for Your Photographs, Plus links to technical sites.

The Digital Learning Center
A digital imaging education site by Kodak.

The Impressionist
A Java paint program that lets you create a painted representation of a photograph. It does this by sampling colors from the source image and then drawing brush strokes onto the canvas.

The Incredible Art Department
A major resource for students, teachers, and parents of the visual arts.

The Native American Adventure
Enter the live 3D virtual museum. Well worth the visit.

The Serpent's Eye
The Serpent's Eye is a gallery of art and nature on the web. The artists featured use nature as both medium and theme.

The Web of Life: The Art of John Biggers
The Web of Life is an ArtsEdNet Talk online exhibition and discussion that focuses on using discipline-based art education (DBAE) in the classroom. This program concentrates on the life and work of the African American artist and art educator John Biggers. It features information about Biggers, teaching materials, activities for students, a conversation with the artist, examples of his work, a list of resources, and an opportunity to talk to the artist and project coordinator via e-mail.

Trajan's Rome: The Man, The City, The Empire
A six-lesson interdisciplinary middle school curriculum unit brought to you by the Getty Education Institute and the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA. By emphasizing primary sources--artworks and texts--this unit removes the distance students feel from history and connects them intimately with the past. Take your students on a trip to the Roman empire of the 2nd century A.D. by using the activities and resources available here.

What is Art? What is an Artist?
The intention behind the seminar and this exhibition from Sweet Briar College is to examine the notion of "art" together with the identity, nature, role, and myths of the "artist" from the earliest times to the present. Historical concepts of art (in theory and practice) are analyzed, together with accounts of the lives and activities of artists.

Wyland Kid's Web
Kids News, Planet Ocean, Games, Wyland's Fun Art, and Coloring Book. A Kids Interactive web devoted to the Art of Wyland and the environment.