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Project Integrate Webpage Creating Color

Project Integrate Webpage Impressionists

Art Connected
Online art lessons for your classroom from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Art Gallery has samples from different periods. Click on Playground for interactive fun.

ArtsEdNet Lesson Plans and Curriculum Ideas
Find a variety of teaching and learning materials, including many art images, listed by grade level and alphabetically. Also included is the Getty Scope and Sequence for teaching art.

Elementary Art Lesson Plans
Learn some lessons from an art teacher who taught in Indianapolis, Indiana, at Riverside Elementary School #44 for 29 years. Introduce Computer Graphics to young students (these lessons can also be used for middle school and high school).

Web Gallery of Art

British Museum

Tissue Paper Art Ideas

ArtsWork: Arts Resources for Teachers and Students
Set of resources, links, lesson plans, and much more for educational materials in the area of visual arts, dance, music, and drama/theater

Art Lessons Collection:
A collection of art lessons 18, suitable for upper elementary grades, divided into 5 categories:  Pencil/ Black Pen Drawing, Adding Colored Marker, Collage, Mixing Paint, and Art History.

Art Sparkers:
Make an art book, or learn the art of camouflage, draw like a cat, or make an expressive mask... There are fifteen "art sparkers" here to jump start your artistic imagination with creative projects.

Explore Art:
Lesson collection site with twelve lessons so far, with ideas  for contour drawing with Remington, collage with Picasso, clay sculpture with Rodin, and more.

Art Workshop:
Students have the opportunity to create their own interactive multimedia puppet show at this online production experience. Teacher tips offer curricular connections, as well as story and music suggestions. Java required.

Explore and Learn at the Met:
The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art site, where students learn about art through an art timeline of history, information about famous artists, or explore various masterpieces.

NGA Kids:
Nine online explorations for students to investigate an artist's use of color, line, texture, subject, or statement.

Westward Movement:
Ideas for Art lessons to go along with a 5th grade Westward Movement Study.

Making Connections Between Art and Music
In addition to the integration of music and visual arts concepts, this curriculum unit also presents and introduction to the scientifie concepts of wavelengths. This unit is divided into three lessons.

Art and Science: Pasta Skeleton, Paper Mache Dinosaur Bone, and more

From Cave Art to Your Art: 30,000 years of new media from Sanford
Cave painters first put charcoal to rock thirty thousand years ago. Ever since, artists have created new media to help them express themselves.  Explore the ways that artists use art media and make a video showing what they¬íve inspired you to create. Watch video clips showing artists at work, then make your own art and upload it to the web site. Add text and music, and you¬íre ready to watch your video. You can even download it to your computer to share with friends and family!
Note: This site has many large video files, so a fast internet connection is highly recommended!