Curriculum Integration
Integrating art into all areas of the curriculum brings learning to life. Many suggestions are listed in the resource pages of the Art in Action curriculum books. In addition, the following websites offer ideas and projects that integrate art into your program.
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Mathematics and Art from Science News
This site provides a list of Web articles, books, and other resources that bring together mathematics and art.
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/teacherzone/mathart.asp
A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s are represented in this collection from the Library of Congress. Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Jacob Lawrence.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html#External
A Japanese Picture Scroll
See a 13th century scroll and see and hear a story of human deceit, vengeful demons, and the founding of a famous Japanese shrine. Use this with the 2nd grade lesson on Li T’ang.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/kitanomaki/kitano_splash.htm
African Masks
Use this with the Program Level 1 lesson on African Masks. This site is rich with images of African masks and mask design, plus information on African tribal artists.
http://www.artyfactory.com/africanmasks/index.htm
Albert Bierstadt Gallery
Use this with the Program level 2 lesson on Bierstadt. This website provides a great show of works by Bierstadt.
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/glenda/bierstadt/bierstadt.html
Amazing Spiro
Use this with the Program Level 4 lesson on Vasarely. Make really cool pictures with geometry.
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/coolthings/amazingspiro/spiro/index.html
Ancient Arcade
Use this with the Program Level 6 and 7 lessons on mythology. Test your knowledge of mythological figures with this game of gods and symbols.
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/interactive/arcade.htm
Ancient Egyptian Art
Use this with the Program Level 1 or 6 lessons on Egyptian Art. Learn about the Ancient Egyptians and discover more about Egyptian art, gods, crowns, hieroglyphs and cartouches.
http://www.artyfactory.com/egyptian_art/egyptian_art_lessons.htm
Art About Sports
This website provides examples of artists and their artwork who were inspired by and portrayed professional sports activities
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/sportsart.htm
Art Appreciation Songs
A list of songs you can integrate with your art instruction. Sound clips are provided.
http://www.songsforteaching.com/artappreciationsongs/index.htm
Art Junction
WHAT IF...? Imagine you had a dragon for a next-door neighbor and other unusual situations.
THAT'S ARTRAGEOUS! Make the familiar strange and the ordinary extraordinary. Use with the 4th grade lesson on Dali.
http://www.artjunction.org/
Art Tales
Discover the world of wildlife art. Create a story, write a wildlife field guide, or curate a museum exhibit with our artwork. Add excitement with music and sound effects. Publish creations on the National Museum of wildlife Art website. Use this with the 3rd grade lesson on Bierstadt or the 5th grade lesson on Audubon.
http://www.wildlifeart.org/Learn/Games/ArtTales/
Asian Games
This site highlights the importance of Asia as a source of many games such as chess, backgammon, Parcheesi, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, and playing cards. It features almost 200 objects, including spectacular examples of game sets dating from the 12th to 19th centuries. Use this with 6th grade lessons on Chinese Art.
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/AsianGames/asianGamesFlash.htm
Cake Math
This site features math challenges of many varieties. Students practice fractions, word problems, addition, subtraction, sorting, and classifying. Older students will find volume and surface area in Thiebaud's cakes. Use with the 4th grade lesson on Thiebaud.
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/counting_on_art/
Carmine’s Portraits
Use this interactive website with any K-3 lesson on portraits. Artists make portraits about people and sometimes, animals. Look at portraits and learn about the people in them.
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/portrait1/portrait1.html
Cats for Kids
Use this website with the Program Level 4 lesson on Marc. Learn great facts about the great cats, send e-cards, and solve puzzles.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GreatCats/catskids.cfm
Cézanne's Astonishing Apples
Paul Cézanne said, "I will astonish Paris with an apple!" Have some fun while you play with shapes, listen to a story, and learn all about Cézanne's "Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses." Use this with the 2nd grade lesson on Cezanne.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/cezannes_apples/splash.html
Childe Hassam, American Impressionist
Games, a movie, and more—have some fun while you learn about paintings by Childe Hassam, American Impressionist. Use this with any lesson on Impressionists.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/childe_hassam/index.html
Classic Orders of Architecture
Use this with the 6th grade lessons on Greek architecture. See photographs of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian architecture. The site also highlights the differences of architectural features such as the capital, frieze, and cornice on each of the types of architecture.
http://www.cmhpf.org/kids/dictionary/ClassicalOrders.html
Color Matters
See how color affects our mind and body, its use in design and art. Explains additive and subtractive color systems, how the eye sees colors, and how other cultures view and use colors. Use this with the 7th grade lessons on Boticelli and van Eyke.
http://www.colormatters.com/
Color Vision and Art
The Impressionists were artists who changed the accepted concepts on color and light, and challenged later artists to provide even bolder solution through their work. Learn about how the Impressionists used color and how our eyes see and perceive color. Use this with lessons on Impressionists like Monet and Seurat.
http://webexhibits.org/colorart/page18.html
Diego Rivera Web Museum
Use this with the 4th grade lesson on Diego Rivera. Discover a web art gallery featuring Rivera’s art, life and works.
http://diegorivera.com/index.php
Dragons in Ancient China
Chinese mythology places special importance on the role of dragons. This website highlights dragons in the arts, literature, poetry, architecture and music of the Chinese conscience. Use this with the 6th grade lesson on the Five Clawed Dragon.
http://www.chinapage.com/dragon1.html
Drawing Drawer
"I'm finished! Now what do I do?" Art teacher Marty Reid has a long list of things students can do when they get done early.
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/drawing_drawer.html
Drawing in One-Point Perspective
How do artists draw in 3-D? This site explains the principles of one-point perspective, and provides hands-on activities to help you learn! Use this with the 3rd grade lesson on Utrillo.
http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/
Exploring Leonardo
Learn about Leonardo da Vinci, his futuristic inventions, and unique way of looking at the world at this site. Use this with the 7th grade lesson on da Vinci.
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
Exploring Linear Perspective
Learn about linear perspective at The Boston Museum of Science’s interactive website. Use this with the 6th grade lesson on David or the 7th grade lesson on Boticelli.
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/ExploringLinearPerspective.html
Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings
Use this with lessons on portraits for grades 3-8. The National Portrait Gallery brings you this look at how portrait art has changed in modern times.
http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/eye/index.html
Eyetricks: Optical Illusions
A site devoted to optical illusions and other mind teasing oddities! Use this with the 4th grade lesson on Vassarely.
http://www.eyetricks.com/
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Use this with Program Level 8 lesson on immigration, Flo Oy Wong. What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/category/for-educators/
Faith Ringgold
(Official site) Contains biography, frequently asked questions, works in progress, a link to a blog to communicate with Ms. Ringgold, images of her artwork, her son “Anyone Can Fly”, and much more. Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Faith Ringgold or a lesson on Black History Month.
http://www.faithringgold.com/
Geometry through Art
Use this with the 4th grade lesson on Vasarely. Explore geometry through drawing.
http://mathforum.org/~sarah/shapiro/
George Washington Crossing the Delaware
Analyze the composition of this painting about the first President of the United States. Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Copley.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/gw/el_gw.htm
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Use this website with the Program Level 4 lesson on Georgia O'Keeffe. Learn more about the artist, her life, homes, artwork, and American Modernism.
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/Default.aspx
Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists- Mike Venezia
Mike Venezia has been writing children’s books about famous artists since 1978 and has completed a series with 48 books in all including artists such as Picasso, O’Keeffe, Michelangelo, and Degas. This website gives information about these books and about Mr. Venezia’s writing career.
http://www.mikevenezia.com/mikevenezia/books/bookstore_artists.asp
Gilbert Stuart: Making Faces
Who was Gilbert Stuart and what did he do? Learn how he knew George Washington and many other famous people. Includes an animated story and activities, designed to answer these questions and more. Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Copley.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/gilbert_stuart/index.html
Global Art Project for Peace - Let’s All Join Hands
Use this with any grade level to emphasize the use of art in creating global peace. The Global Art Project invites you to join hands with thousands of others around the world to celebrate peace and diversity. Paper hands for peace may be created and sent to the Global Art Project at any time of year.
http://www.globalartproject.org/registration/makingahand.html
Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture
Get definitions and illustrations of words like sarcophagus, atrium, and jamb. Hear their pronunciations too! This is a great sight for 6th and 7th grade teachers and students.
http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menuglossary/INDEX.HTM
Go West, Young Artist
Use this with the 2nd grade lesson on Currier and Ives or the 5th grade lesson on Remington. This ArtEdventure is a journey back in time and across the American landscape. You'll meet half a dozen great American artists and learn about their work.
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/gowest/index.html
Hands in Art
Drawing hands is very difficult for many middle school artists. Mrs. Kramer, an art teacher at Los Cerros Middle School in Danville, CA has assembled a list of websites that will enhance the 7th grade lesson on Michelangelo’s hands, The Creation.
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/hands.htm
Hands on Crafts
Use this with the second grade lesson on Rubens Come on and play! Get "dirty" with clay! Learn how make a slab self-portrait. Need Shockwave. Slow to load, but worth the wait.
http://www.handsoncrafts.org/slab_frame.htm
How Van Gogh Made His Mark
This interactive exploration of four landscape drawings introduces students to the creative genius of van Gogh the draftsman. Use this with the 3rd grade lesson on van Gogh landscapes.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/van_gogh/intro.html
Inside Scoop: Romare Bearden
A printable, kid-friendly introduction to the art of Romare Bearden.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/scoop-bearden.pdf
Islamic Art & Culture: A Resource for Teachers
Architecture, calligraphy, manuscript illumination, metalwork, ceramics, glass, & textiles are included, along with an historical survey of Islam. Use this with the 7th grade lesson on Islamic design.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/islamicinfo.htm
Japanese Calligraphy
Use this with any lesson on Japanese art. This website has examples and explanation of the art of calligraphy.
http://www.connectedglobe.com/ohmori/intro1.html
Kulture Kidz
Use with the 3rd grade lesson on Adire/Kente Cloth and the 5th grade lesson on Ringgold.
Learn more about African American Culture
Look at: Uu (Underground Railroad) and Dd (Designing Kente Cloth)
http://www.aakulturezone.com/kidz/abc
Living Colour- Australian Museum of Art
Use this with any grade level lesson on color theory. This is a fun interactive site to learn about color theory and how to use color more effectively. It has good science integration ideas.
http://colour.australianmuseum.net.au/
Making Shapes — 3D Forms
Use this website with any K-8 lesson on color. This site offers interactive descriptions of color and how color is affected by our vision. Use this as a way to connect art, color and science.
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/
Masks of Africa
The African masks in this exhibition are dramatic portraits of spirit beings, departed ancestors, and invisible powers of social control. Use this with 1st grade lesson on the Banda Mask.
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html
MONDRIMAT
Use this hands-on site to experiment with color, space, and rhythm in the style of Piet Mondrian. Use this with the lesson on Mondrian in Kindergarten.
http://www.stephen.com/mondrimat/
More than Math
This is a fascinating and fun web site that integrates art and math. Includes activities and an art gallery. Use this with any art lesson!
http://www.morethanmath.org
Mr. Picassohead
Create your own Picasso style face online. Use this with the 4th grade lesson on Picasso.
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html
Museum of Art Masters
This website was created by a 3rd grade class and shows an imaginative way students can tell others about what they have learned. The website reads, “Step inside our little museum to read about eleven of the greatest artists of all time. Learn about their lives and enjoy a sample of their work. You can also read some great original poetry inspired by these Art Masters and written by each of us!”
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/art/arthome.htm
National Gallery of Art - Edward Hopper
Use this with the 8th grade lesson on Hopper. This website highlights Hopper's themes for his artwork including early works, New England, isolation, urban studies, and more. Includes zoom option for close study, video clips, and an interactive slide show.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/introduction/index.shtm
National Gallery of Art – Hall of Presidents
This virtual tour will allow you to navigate through the National Portrait Gallery's Hall of Presidents provided by the Smithsonian Institute. Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Copley and Stuart.
http://www.npg.si.edu/collect/hall.htm
National Gallery of Art – Photo Op
This interactive activity introduces you to digital photography and image editing. Use the virtual camera to snap photos, then edit the images or add special effects to create your own works of art.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/index.htm#photoop
National Gallery of Art – Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Use this with the 6th grade lessons on Rome. Learn more about the exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples, on view at the National Gallery of Art through March 22, 2009. View a QuickTime movie clip about Pompeii and the Roman Villa.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/pompeiiinfo.shtm
National Geographic – The Underground Railroad
Take a virtual tour of the Underground Railroad. Use this website with the 5th grade lesson on Faith Ringgold.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j4.html
NGA Classroom: Winslow Homer
This website highlights Homer's works from the battlefields, farmland, and coastal villages of America. Includes zoom option for close study, video clips, and an interactive slide show. Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Homer.
http://www.nga.gov/feature/homer/homersplash.htm
NGA Kids: Faces and Places
Use this with any landscape or portrait lesson. Faces and Places encourages children of all ages to create portraits and landscape paintings in the style of American naive artists.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/facesplaces.htm
NGAkids Still Life
Create interactive compositions that mirror the paintings of the old masters. Explore spatial arrangement, perspective, proportion, and blance while creating engaging, interactive still life compositions that mix everyday objects with elements borrowed from famous works of art. Use this with the 2nd grade lesson on Cezanne or any lesson on still life paintings.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/stilllife.htm
NGAkids – Jungle
Create an imaginary landscape. Mix and match the animals, control the weather and lighting conditions, or construct flowers, trees, and plants. Use this with the Kindergarten lesson on Rousseau’s Jungle Scene.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/jungle.htm
NGAkids: Frank Stella, Jarama II
Use this with the 8th grade lesson on Stella.
An interactive, kid-friendly introduction to the art of Frank Stella
http://www.nga.gov/kids/stella/stella1.htm
NGAkids:Inside Scoop: Jackson Pollock
Use this with the 1st grade lesson on Pollock. An interactive, kid-friendly introduction to the art of Jackson Pollock.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/scoop-pollock.pdf
Nile File
Use this with the first grade lesson on Egyptian art. Follow your guide and explore everyday life in ancient Egypt.
http://www.diduknow.info/nilefile/
Odyssey Online
This is an interactive journey through ancient Greece. Includes information on animals real and imagined, gods, goddesses, heroes and architecture. Use this with 6th grade lessons on ancient Greek art.
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/home.html
Oldenburg and van Bruggen on the Roof
Discover the large scale sculptures created by these two artists and discuss their belief in the power of these sculptures to transform the landscapes around them. Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Oldenburg.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/oldenburg/index.html
Online Watercolor Mixing Palette
Use this with the 7th grade lesson on Kandinsky. Get familiar with how watercolors mix with using a color mixing palette created specifically for watercolor painters.
http://painting.about.com/library/blpaint/blcolormixingpalette2.htm
Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Learn more about Islamic art from this website from the National Gallery of Art. Use this with the 7th grade lesson on Islamic design.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/islamic/index.shtm
Palace Museum
Use this with the 6th grade lessons on China. Look at Chinese art displayed in this website of the Palace Museum (The Forbidden City) in Beijing.
http://www.dpm.org.cn/
Perseus Digital Library Project - Ancient Olympics
Use this website with Program Level 6 lessons on Greece. This site contains textual and visual materials for the study of ancient Greek civilization.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
Perspective
Use this with the 3rd grade lesson on Utrillo, the 5th grade lesson on Lawrence or the 7th grade lesson on Ucello. This website provides a step-by-step description on how to use one and two point perspective and foreshortening in drawings and paintings.
http://www.homeschoolarts.com/per-l1-1.htm
Pigment Through the Ages
A great site that tells where we get pigment for paints and what the colors mean in different cultures.
http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/
Pop Art Portraits
Use this with the Program Level 5 lesson on the Andy Warhol. This site uses Pop Art lessons with iconic portraits to demonstrate the bold and colorful techniques of this popular art style from the 1960's.
http://www.artyfactory.com/pop_art_portraits/pop_art_lessons/pop_art_portraits.htm
Posters American Style
The Smithsonian Institute Posters American Style, brings together some of the great graphic images made in the United States over the past century. Use this with the updated 5th grade lesson on William Bradley.
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/posters/
Precita Eyes
Use this with the 4th grade lesson on Rivera. Take a virtual tour of colorful murals painted by members of all ages in this San Francisco community organization.
http://www.precitaeyes.org/
Renaissance Connection
Learn all about Renaissance art in this interactive web site, with introductions to artists. Be a patron of the arts. Design your own innovations and investigate Renaissance artworks in depth. Discover how past innovations inform life today. Use this with 7th grade lessons on the Renaissance.
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org
Selected Works: Georgia O’Keeffe
Use this with the 4th grade lesson on O’Keeffe. This site gives a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe and has many examples of her artwork complete with descriptions by the artist.
http://www.michelangelo.com/okeeffe/index-ns.html
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Use this website with Program Levels 5 or 8 both dealing exclusively with American Art. Explore the Smithsonian American Art Museum through rich media. See slide shows, podcasts, and other resources that present the collection in new and engaging ways.
http://americanart.si.edu/education/activities/
Smithsonian Latino Center’s Kids Corner
Use his with the 4th grade lesson on Diego Rivera. This site highlights Latino exhibitions and collections from across the Smithsonian. Visit the Kids’ Gallery that shows the importance of portraiture in cultural and artistic expression, the Son Clave Lounge featuring Latino music, and take a virtual visit through Mexico’s pre-Columbian past.
http://latino.si.edu/KidsCorner/index.html
Southern Quilting
Use this with the Program Level 5 lesson on Faith Ringgold. This site, rich with images of quilts and quilting patterns, offers a look at the traditions and craft associated with quilting, and the significance of those traditions in American culture.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/quilt/opening.html
Sunbeams and Sundials
Use this with the Kindergarten lesson on Toyohiro. Discover why we have seasons, planet facts and how a sundial works. Presented by the Space and Time Gallery at the World Museum Liverpool, England.
http://www.diduknow.info/sun/
Switch Zoo
Switch the animals' heads, legs, and tails to make new creatures at this surrealistic virtual zoo. Thousands of combinations are possible! Use this with the 4th grade lesson on Dali.
http://switchzoo.com/
Symmetry Around the World
Use this with lessons on symmetry such as African Masks or Seurat in Program Level 1. This site is a fascinating look at symmetry in nature, buildings, animals, symbols, alphabet letters, the human body, and more. This site also offers worksheet questions for educators.
http://www.adrianbruce.com/Symmetry/
The Art of Japan
Use this website with Program Level 7 lesson on Hokusai. Learn about the history of Japanese paintings and the beautiful calligraphy and woodblock prints of the Japanese.
http://library.thinkquest.org/27458/
The Art of Romare Bearden
Use this with the Program Level 1 lesson on Bearden. Explore Bearden's unique fusion of artistic traditions through archival footage of the artist at work, commentaries on his relationship to jazz musicians Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and discussion of his monumental mural-collage commission at Berkeley's city hall.
http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/interactive_features/23
The Cave of Lascaux
Comprehensive information and a virtual tour of the cave from the French Ministry of Culture. Use this with the 2nd grade lesson on the prehistoric Cave Animals.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
The Cleveland Museum of Art - Egypt
Explore Egypt with Egyptomania and take an animal safari across ancient Egypt. Find out about mummies, pyramids and daily life in ancient Egypt. Get information on hieroglyphs, pharaohs and much more. Use this with the 6th grade lessons on Egypt.
http://www.clevelandart.org/kids/
The Dancers and Degas
Use this with the 3rd lesson on Degas. Join special guests on a visit to the galleries and find out what dancers can tell us about Edgar Degas. Listen, look, and create your own sketch in this fun activity for all ages.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/dancers/index.html
The Day the Mona Lisa was Stolen
Read about the greatest art theft of the 20th century! Did you know that Picasso was a suspect? Stolen from the Louvre on August 21, 1911; find out what really happened. Use this with the 7th grade lesson on da Vinci.
http://www.artjunction.org/mona.php
The Edward Hopper Scrapbook
Use this with the 8th grade lesson on Hopper. This scrapbook, compiled by the staff of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, offers a glimpse into Hopper’s life, his friends, and the paintings that have fascinated art lovers worldwide ever since Hopper first came to prominence during the mid 1920s.
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/hopper/
The Floating World of Ukiyo-e
Use this with the 7th grade lesson on Hokusai. The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, & Substance showcases Japanese "Ukiyo-e" -- pictures of the floating, or sorrowful, world. More than 100 prints, drawings, and books are featured, most from 1600-1900.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/
The Garden of Praise
The Garden of Praise website offers a biography of the artist, a study sheet, a worksheet, a greyscale print of the masterpiece, a jigsaw puzzle, a printable and online crossword puzzle, word search, and word scramble, and links for further research
http://gardenofpraise.com/art.htm
The Glory of Chinese Printing
This site explores the ancient history of Chinese printing. Aa wealth of photos of ancient artifacts and texts illustrate concepts and periods throughout history. Use this with the 6th grade lesson on Chinese Art.
http://big5.cgan.net/english/english/cpg/encontent.htm
The Great Depression
Use this with the program Level 8 lesson on Dorothea Lange. Insights into the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl; migrant workers; the New Deal and the WPA.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/great-depression/
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Use this with the Program Level 6 lesson on the Parthenon. Created by PBS this website features a timeline; an interactive look at the Acropolis Experience including a 3-D animation of the Parthenon and a description of how it was built.
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Romare Bearden: Let's Walk The Block
See Harlem street life through the eyes and imagination of Romare Bearden. This exploration of his famous collage, The Block, includes a guided tour, music by the Branford Marsalis Quartet, and activities designed for kids, parents, and teachers. Use this with the 1st grade lesson on Bearden.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/the_block/index_flash.html
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Vincent van Gogh
This site provides interesting tidbits about Vincent van Gogh’s life and an interactive area where children can try drawing online. Use this with lessons on van Gogh in Kindergarten or 3rd grade.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/van_gogh/intro.html
The Mind of Leonardo
Use this with the 7th grade lesson on da Vinci. Visit this exploration of the work and processes of the Universal Genius through text, images, reconstructions and animations.
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/menteleonardo/
The Renaissance Connection
This is a highly interactive, educational, and fun site about art of the Renaissance from Pennsylvania's Allentown Art Museum. Use this with the 7th grade curriculum on the Renaissance.
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/index2.cfm
The Rodin Museum (Paris)
This museum has all the works of Rodin and other prominent artists. It has an educational section. Use this with the 4th grade lesson on Rodin.
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/welcome.htm
The Textile Museum
Learn about a culture through the textiles its people create! You can view an online exhibit and browse through an illustrated stitch glossary." Lesson plans for teachers are also available.
http://www.textilemuseum.org/
The Tomb of Perneb
Travel through space and time with the tomb of Perneb on its journey from ancient Egypt to its current home at the Met. Includes an animated reconstruction of the tomb, games, and more. Use this with the 6th grade lessons on Egypt.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/perneb_tomb/bc_a.html
The Vincent Van Gogh Information Gallery
Contains close to 3000 images of Vincent van Gogh's works including paintings, sketches, letter sketches, and watercolors. Use this with the 2nd grade lesson on van Gogh.
http://www.vggallery.com/
The Warhol: Silkscreen Printing
Use this with the Program Level 5 lesson on Andy Warhol. Create your own silkscreen. Explore Warhol's process and follow his footsteps at this online silkscreen factory.
http://www.warhol.org/interactive/silkscreen/main.html
Tips for Poster Design
Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Victor Bradley Bicycles. This Web site features a detailed technical outline explaining the stages to creating a poster. Note: This Web site may require guidance by the teacher as the students progress with their poster designs.
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/infolit/poster.htm
van Gogh Museum
Use this with the Program Level 3 lesson on Vincent van Gogh. The website of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam features many images of Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces, accompanied by information about the artist.
http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=sectie_museum
Wassily Kandinsky
This website highlights the progression of styles used by Kandinsky. Use this with the new 7th grade lesson on Kandinsky.
http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/kandin.html
What is Color?
Use this website with any K-8 lesson on color. This site offers interactive descriptions of color and how color is affected by our vision. Use this as a way to connect art, color and science.
http://webexhibits.org/colorart/color.html
Whitney Museum – Jacob Lawrence
Discover fun facts about Jacob Lawrence and create your own visual narrative. Use this with the 5th grade lesson on Jacob Lawrence.
http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/
Women of Our Time
Use this with the 8th grade lesson on Dorothea Lange. See photos of famous twentieth-century American women from the National Portrait gallery.
http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/woot/index.htm
Young America
Use this with American landscapes and portraits in grades 5 and 8. Explore great portraits, landscapes, and scenes of early America from the American Art Museum.
http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1ya/image-frame.html