Online Resources for Students and Educators
Student Resources
Destination Modern Art: Explore the MOMA
Use this online program to make art like Picasso!
Visit the smART Kids virtual museum and sketch and record in the virtual sketchbook!
Use this virtual program to make art like the painting Cakes by artist Wayne Thiebaud!
Google's own art museum virtual database!
Use this fancy virtual drawing canvas to draw a picture and replay your drawing with music!
Use Psykopaint to turn your own picture into a canvas to paint in the style of famous artists!
Use Artopia to explore famous art and artists. Use your critical thinking skills with the "compare & contrast" option.Take a closer look at art processes that interests you.
Additional Internet Resources
- Investigate famous art: WikiPaintings An archive of high quality images of paintings (non-censored) thoughout history with easy to navigate categories such as "by artsist" and with portraits or photographs of each artist. Great to show what an artist looked like and the range of their work.
- Look at other kid's art: Artisonia Student Museum archive of teacher submitted student work ranging from k-12. Easily navigable for students, with a keyword search and thousands of student art pieces.
- Play a video: Brainpop Art Concepts This educational site includes many subjects, including the arts! Brainpop allows students to play games and watch movies about particular educational topics. "BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students - in school, at home, and on mobile devices. Our resources include movies, quizzes, games, mobile apps, experiments, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All content is aligned to and searchable by state standards including Common Core. "
- Look up art: Artcycopedia This site is a little hard to navigate and very text heavy.
- Flockdraw is a free online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool with no registration that you can use to draw on the same picture with other people!
- draw online with fun colors on MugTug
- Paint on a computer canvas: raw on a blank canvas with realistic brushed and replay the processs on art.com's ArtPad
- Draw with your sound: Voice Draw helps you make pictures by speaking in different tones. Microphone required.
- Search Google's exciting Arts and Culture database by artist, medium, time period or art movement. (Some fine art examples may contain nudity.)
- PBS Art Learning Media Resource
- Andy Goldsworthy: Visual Arts (Earthworks)
- Movable Books: Pop Ups
Educator Resources
Teacher Resources
1. The Art of Ed: http://www.theartofed.com practical and relevant articles on subjects ranging from how to use technology in the artroom to ways to store art smocks.
2.The Art Education Agency's site offering examples of sucessful teaching strategies http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/index.php?page=teaching_strategies
3. Art online: Cool Tools for Schools An incredible resource for Web 2.0 Drawing sites
4. free screen capture programs that folks seem to like are Jing and ScreenCast-O-Matic
5. Turn of the century style educational clip art 66,902 pieces of free clipart and growing every week.
Art Teaching Blogs:
ArtisBasic art teacher links
ArtLady blog
A Faithful Attempt art blog
TeachKidsArt site links
Paintedpaper big leaves
itsartday clay leavesElementaryArtisfun pumpkins and dripping paint
Art Teaching Instagram accounts
The Painted Paper has awesome projects!
Integrating Technology:
1. What is technology integration?
http://www.edutopia.org/teachingmodules/TI/What.php
2. Why do we need technology integration?
http://www.edutopia.org/teachingmodules/TI/Why.php
3. How To Integrate Technology
http://www.edutopia.org/teachingmodules/TI/how.php
4. Core Arts Standards http://nccas.wikispaces.com/Conceptual+Framework A Review of Connections between the Common Core State Standards and the Core Arts Standards. This narrative document outlines the grounding philosophy, primary goals, dynamic processes, structures, and outcomes that shape student learning and achievement in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts, as articulated in the 2013 National Core Arts Standards.
5. Matrix for Visual Arts and their aligning standards.
http://nccas.wikispaces.com/National+Core+Arts+Standards+Framework+Matrix
Graphic mapping rtistic literacy by expressing the overarching common values and expectations for learning in arts education across the five arts disciplines.
1. The Art of Ed: http://www.theartofed.com practical and relevant articles on subjects ranging from how to use technology in the artroom to ways to store art smocks.
2.The Art Education Agency's site offering examples of sucessful teaching strategies http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/index.php?page=teaching_strategies
3. Art online: Cool Tools for Schools An incredible resource for Web 2.0 Drawing sites
4. free screen capture programs that folks seem to like are Jing and ScreenCast-O-Matic
5. Turn of the century style educational clip art 66,902 pieces of free clipart and growing every week.
Art Teaching Blogs:
ArtisBasic art teacher links
ArtLady blog
A Faithful Attempt art blog
TeachKidsArt site links
Paintedpaper big leaves
itsartday clay leavesElementaryArtisfun pumpkins and dripping paint
Art Teaching Instagram accounts
The Painted Paper has awesome projects!
Integrating Technology:
1. What is technology integration?
http://www.edutopia.org/teachingmodules/TI/What.php
2. Why do we need technology integration?
http://www.edutopia.org/teachingmodules/TI/Why.php
3. How To Integrate Technology
http://www.edutopia.org/teachingmodules/TI/how.php
4. Core Arts Standards http://nccas.wikispaces.com/Conceptual+Framework A Review of Connections between the Common Core State Standards and the Core Arts Standards. This narrative document outlines the grounding philosophy, primary goals, dynamic processes, structures, and outcomes that shape student learning and achievement in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts, as articulated in the 2013 National Core Arts Standards.
5. Matrix for Visual Arts and their aligning standards.
http://nccas.wikispaces.com/National+Core+Arts+Standards+Framework+Matrix
Graphic mapping rtistic literacy by expressing the overarching common values and expectations for learning in arts education across the five arts disciplines.