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21st Century Skills
- 21st Century Skills in Arizona
- Educational origami – This wiki from downunder is just packed with useful goodies relating to being a teacher in the 21st Century.
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Route 21
- Redefining Literacy
- Resources for teaching 21st Century Skills
Advocacy
- Arizona Academic Standards/Art Standards
- Arizona Alliance for Arts Education, Melissa Cox, Director. 6620 North Catalina Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85718
Phone: 520-299-0862 - Arizona Citizens Action for the ARTS
- Arizona Commission on the Arts
- Arizona Humanities Council
- Arizona Tax Credit ($200 for a single individual, $400 for a married couple filing jointly). To receive this tax credit, make out a check to the school of your choice. There is a list of Opening Minds through the Arts schools here and a list of all TUSD schools here. If you want your donation to apply to the OMA program, please mail the check to TUSD OMA Program, 2025 E. Winsett, Tucson, AZ 85719. For tax credit donations for band, orchestra, and other programs, mail the check to your chosen school. In the memo section of the check, you should indicate the program you would like to have your money assist. If you make a donation to the school's Fine and Performing Arts program, you should further indicate your area of interest by listing Opening Minds through the Arts (OMA), music, band, orchestra, drama, dance, or visual arts. Click here for more info.
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Performing Arts Alliance: the Coalition of Performing Arts Advocates
- What You Can Do to Increase the Quality of Arts Education?
- Find out who is teaching the arts and what curriculum and activities are used.
- Let everyone know that, in your school, you want education in all four arts for all K-8 students and in at least one art form for students in grades 9-12.
- Make your school and community aware of the need for qualified arts teachers.
- Create an awareness and understanding of the importance of arts education with parents and students, faculty and administrators, school board and community members.
- YoungArts: a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.
The mission of the NFAA is to identify emerging artists and assist them at critical junctures in their educational and professional development, and to raise the appreciation for, and support of, the arts in American Society.
Altered Books and Art
Disclaimer: Most books are removed from TUSD classrooms and libraries are not available for altering. Those books, referred to as "discarded", are not actually thrown away. Instead they are recycled to other schools and districts. However, school libraries and classrooms sometimes have books that are either too badly damaged or too out of date to serve anyone's needs. Consult your school librarian about acquiring damaged books to alter. Others source for suitable books for altering are thrift stores, yard sales and sometimes the family bookshelves.
- The Altered Book Project from Portland Public Library
- Altered Books - A great illustration of making poetry by altering books
- Lessons for creating altered books (Middle School)
- What is altered art?
Animation
- Animusic - Animation and music
- Online animation tool
Art Games and Art Play for children of all ages
- A. Pintura: Art Detective
- Agents of Deterioration - Become a detective and help solve the different cases about what is destroying these works of art.
- Albright-Knox Artgames
- Art Scoops - J. Paul Getty Museum
- Bottlecaps to Brushes - Activities to help you discover works of art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with your host, Cappy, the skateboarding giraffe.
- Color with Leo! - Explore the world of art through interactive games and activities with a young Leonardo da Vinci.
- The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds - Two curious dogs give their perspective on art. They explain symbolism, color and other hidden meanings in popular works of modern art.
- Creating America
- Curious Corner - Learn about art through fun interactive stories and activities.
- Explore Color
- Exploring Perspective
- FireWorks of Glass – Glass Factory - Fun activities to learn about glass blowing and creating works of art.
- GettyGames
- Inside Art - What if you were trapped inside a painting and had to solve a mystery to get out? An adventure inside art history.
- LACMA: Families and Children in American Art - Interactive activities where you look closely at these works of art and get creative.
- Learning about Landscapes - Discover how you can create landscapes into your art.
- Phototropism - Make a futuristic sculpture inspired plants.
- Portrait Detectives - Using portraits painted centuries ago, we can now learn about the persons and the era in which they lived. Take a guided tour, or investigate by yourself.
- Portraits & Portraiture - Fun activities that teach about portraiture.
- Starfall Art Gallery
- Tate Collectives - Learn about color theory, tools and create your own work of art.
- Tate Kids: Games - Fun and interactive activities to bring art to life.
Art History
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Egypt, Gift of the Nile
- Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art
- Humanities Web
- Mother of all Art and Art History Links Pages
Art Journals
- 50 Art Journal Prompts
- How to Create an Art Journal
- Journaling your past – Free e-book on creating a journal of memories
Art Museums
- The Alternative Museum - Behind the issues and ahead of the times.
- Arizona State University Art Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago - Includes activities for children. Excellent opening page with animated changes of the art images. Includes exploring "A Mysterious Mummy" and "Thousands of Dots" (about a painting by Georges Seurat).
- Art Museums worldwide
- Canadian Museum of Civilization
- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Utterly fabulous site combining multiple museum holdings in an over 75,000-item database. Images are excellent, and you can send your comments and knowledge about the paintings to the museum.
- The Getty - Lots of educational material on this site. Short biographies of many of the artists in the collection.
- Heard Museum
- Inuit Prints
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - This is one of the largest and finest art museums in the world. Its collections include more than two million works of art--several hundred thousand of which are on view at any given time--spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present.
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Muse du Louvre – New website of the Louvre in Paris
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Museum of Northern Arizona
- The National Gallery of Art
- Nature of the Beast
- Philadelphia Museum of Art: Collections - Explore its renowned collections, acclaimed special exhibitions, and enriching programs.
- Phoenix Art Museum
- The Smithsonian Institution and Museums
- Tate Gallery
- The Textile Museum
- The Textile Museum of Canada
- Tucson Museum of Art
Art Museums for Kids
- Artissimo - The children's page for the Cybermuse (National Gallery of Canada).
- Decoding art - Cybermuse (National Gallery of Canada).
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - For Kids
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, the Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children. The recently completed building project represents MoMA’s most extensive redefinition since its founding seventy-five years ago. Recently, the Department of Education, with MoMA's Digital Media department, has also developed a pair of innovative Web sites designed for young children and teenagers.
- National Gallery of Art for Kids - Explore stories in art, take a post card tour of one of the galleries, get directions for art activities and projects, and more.
- Tate Kids from Tate Gallery
Art Reference Sources
- Aboriginal Bark Painting
- Art Renewal Center
- Artchive - Includes images, artist biographies, art theory and criticism.
- Artcyclopedia
- Artlex - Art Dictionary
- CGFA - Carol Gersten Fine Arts
- Greek and Roman Myths
- Mother of all Art and Art History Links Pages
- Olga's Gallery - Over 10,000 images.
- On-Line Picasso Project - A comprehensive Picasso site from Texas A & M University with an incredible number of Picasso paintings displayed.
- Van Gogh Gallery - Complete catalog of Van Gogh works, including letters to and from Vincent Van Gogh. An incredible resource.
Artist Websites
- A Hidden Picasso - Explore the behind-the-scenes story of how art conservators discovered a hidden painting by Pablo Picasso and what the image reveals about the 19-year-old Picasso who painted it.
- About the On-line Picasso Project
- Ai Kajima – Quilt artist/outlaw, kaleidoscopic art from fused fabric.
- Alessandro Fiordaliso – Art from recycled materials
- Aminah’s World - Combining traditional art materials with found objects and everyday materials, artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson creates magical two- and three-dimensional works of art.
- Ann Weber – Cardboard sculpture
- Anna Wili Highfield – Torn Paper Sculpture
- Art of Arizona – Tucson artist’s cooperative gallery, art by local artists
- Artist a Day – This website features a new artist every day. You can subscribe to the RSS feed or get a daily e-mail. If you have an iGoogle homepage, you can add an Artists a Day gadget. A great way to see the work of new artists.
- Brian Dettmer - Creating something new from old books
- Brian Evans: Music, mathematics, and visual art
- Cam Canaletto: Exploring Perspective - See how this painter created realistic space and then create your own masterpiece.
- Childe Hassam: American Impressionist - Learn more about this artist and his paintings.
- Chris Gilmour – Cardboard sculpture
- Claes Oldenburg - Coosje Van Bruggen
- Dale Chihuly
- Essential Vermeer
- Faith Ringgold
- Felice Varini - Experiments in perspective on a very large scale. No, they aren’t Photoshopped.
- Frida Kahlo - Take a look at the world of this renowned artist.
- Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings - Learn more about the artist and his paintings.
- Georgia O’Keeffe
- Hans Hoffman - Explore the influential theories of the artist and teacher, as well as to give students insight into the artistic process itself.
- Henrietta Johnston - Get a glimpse of what life was like for the first professional female artist in America.
- How Van Gogh Made His Mark
- Ingrid Siliakus – Cut and folded paper
- Jackson Pollock
- Jen Stark – Paper sculpture
- Jennifer Maestre Sculpture - Creating Art from pencils.
- Jenny, the Sandcastle Girl
- Jerry Uelsmann
- Jim McNeill - Animation and education
- Jim Yellowhawk
- Josh Schacter Photography
- Kadir Nelson
- Kasey McMahon – art and technology
- Laura Breitman Mixed Media Collage - You have to see it to believe it!
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Mark Langan – Corrugated Art: Recyclable Art for a Green World
- Martin Wattenberg - Data as abstract art; using data displays for understand; collective creation of data-driven art.
- Mel Ristau – great kinetic sculptures
- Monet’s Water Lilies
- Mykl Wells – Tucson sculptor working with cardboard
- The National Gallery
- Olga Kaydanov – Olga Kaydanov has been a working artist since age 6. The website covers the full spectrum of her work.
- On-Line Picasso Project - A comprehensive Picasso site from Texas A & M University with an incredible number of Picasso paintings displayed.
- Paint with Elizabeth Murray
- Picassohead
- Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource
- Rebecca Murtaugh – Click on Works and then on Color Coded to see what can be done with Post-its.
- Rembrandt House Museum
- Romare Bearden – Let’s Walk to Block - Learn more about this artist and his fascination with New York.
- Susan Else – 3D quilt artist.
- Tatiana Plakhova – Complexity graphics
- This Into That - Jim Rosenau's Gallery.
- Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life
- Tilly Willis
- Universal Leonardo - a highly interactive project that "aims to radically extend public understanding and appreciation of the deep unity and extraordinary diversity of Leonardo da Vinci’s work in all his fields of endeavour."
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night - Take a look at some of the artist’s beautiful works of art.
- Van Gogh Gallery - Complete catalog of Van Gogh works, including letters to and from Vincent Van Gogh. An incredible resource.
- Van Gogh/Gauguin Experience
- Virtual Dali
- Welcome to Claude Monet’s
Arts and Crafts
- Art Studio Chalkboard
- The Arts
- Canon Paper Craft - Origami plus.
- Crayola Crayons
- I am an Artist
- The Imagination Factory - This site provides art activities using recycled materials. Ideas and clear directions can be found for painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, fiber arts, and crafts from recycled media.
- Kaboose Crafts for Kids
- KinderArt
- KinderCrafts - Crafts for kindergarten and preschool children.
- Making patterns with natural forms
- Mother Nature, Designer
- NGA Kids: The Art Zone - Invites children of all ages to design a virtual mobile; create a collage, painting, or geometric sculpture online; design and texturize 3-dimensional shapes (and see how artists create these effects without a computer); create a "pixel face"; orchestrate an array of colorful shapes and patterns online. (NGA)
- Oriland - What Origami Can Be - This extensive site offers an origami world to explore, an opportunity to design cities with folded paper models, basic techniques and tips, and a studio with clear directions for folding more than 70 forms, as well as poetry and games.
- Psyanky, Ukrainian Easter Eggs
- Slip Decorator
Arts Education
- Art Institute of Chicago Online Resources
- The Art Masters Top 50 Art Education Blogs – great blog list
- Art Teacher on the Net - Award winning, highly recommended art lesson plans and art education website. Free art resources, art projects, art expert advice, teacher exchange, and more.
- ArtsEdge: Arts Integration from Kennedy Center
- Cycles – African Life Through Art
- Edutopia from the George Lucas Educational Foundation
- El Sistema - Music education program from Venezuela
- The Enduring Power of Totem Poles
- Generating Art Ideas
- Looking Closer: Art that tells a story
- MoMA Learning – Abstract expressionism curriculum from the Museum of Modern Art
- National Gallery of Art (NGA) Summer Teacher Institute - Two 6-day sessions will be held at the Gallery and other Washington locations. A detailed description of the program and the application are online.
- New Horizons for Learning: Arts in Education
- NGA Classroom: For Teachers and Students - A place where teachers and students can connect art and curriculum.
- Opening Minds through the Arts
- Percy Principles of Art and Composition
- The performing arts in art – Getty Museum’s interdisciplinary curriculum exploring the ways visual artist have interpreted the performing arts.
- Portraits & Portraiture - Fun activities that teach about portraiture.
- Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and how to achieve from Harvard's Project Zero
- Studio Thinking from Harvard's Project Zero
- Wallace Foundation: Education Research
Arts Education Standards
- Arizona Academic Standards/Art Standards
- Arts Education Partnership: Standards for Arts Education
- National standards organizations
ArtScience
- Art Science Research Laboratory
- ArtScience: Creativity in the post-Google Generation - Excerpt online at Google Books. Or check out the book from Educational Materials Center
- ArtScience.org from the Nature and Inquiry Artist Group in Boston, Massachusetts
- Brian Evans: Music, mathematics, and visual art
- Jackson Pollock and Physics
- Martin Wattenberg - Data as abstract art; using data displays for understand; collective creation of data-driven art.
- Numbers to Neurons: Digital Synaesthesia
- Restoration Online - Take a look at all the hard work that goes into preserving art.
- Why does a gecko need a tail?
Book making
- Book Factory – book making projects for parents
- K-12 Handmade book project from Dick Blick
- Make your own book – from Projects by Students for Students
- Making books with kids
- The making of a medieval book – a Getty Museum exhibition
- Making tactile books for blind and low-vision children
Books
- Art of the Digital Age by Bruce Wands, available from Educational Materials Center.
- ArtScience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation by David Edwards, available from Educational Materials Center
- Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts by Will Richardson, available from Educational Materials Center.
- Copyright catechism: practical answers to everyday school dilemmas Carol Simpson, c2005, available from Educational Materials Center
- Copyright for schools: A practical guide available from Educational Materials Center. One of the best print resources for schools. A 2005 book by Carol Simpson.
- Teach like your hair's on fire by Rafe Esquith, available at Educational Materials Center
Cartoons and Cartooning
Ceramics and Pottery
- Cloth & Clay: Communicating Culture - From the Textile Museum of Canada.
- Pueblo Pottery - from Internet Public Library.
Chemistry
Classroom Tools
- 50 Web 2.0 ways to tell a story
- Ancient Rome wiki: An Educational Materials Center wikispaces wiki to go with the Ancient Rome Culture Kit
- ArtsConnectED - ArtsConnectEd is the product of a partnership between The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center. Using the power of the Internet to stimulate new approaches to learning, the goal of ArtsConnectEd is to make arts education timely, engaging, interactive, and pertinent for both teachers and students of all ages.
- ArtsEdge-The Kennedy Center Teachers' Resource
- ArtSiteNet (Purchase required) - Create a teaching museum filled with worldwide art and student portfolios.
- Common Curriculum – great classroom tools for building lesson plans and getting organized
- Curriki - Open Source Curriculum
- Discovery Education
- Educational Materials Center, Tucson Unified School District - Educational Materials Center has books, art prints, exhibits, culture kits, library panels, textiles and videos available for checkout within the district.
- Education World
- How to use Journals in the Elementary and Middle School Classroom
- K-12 tech tools
- Library of Congress Classroom Materials
- Mapwing - Create and share a virtual tour of your school.
- Math and number activities using Wordle
- MindMeister - Collaborative Online Mind Mapping.
- PBworks: Free wiki's for educators
- Personal Learning Networks in the classroom (Edutopia)
- Personal Learning Networks from iGoogle
- Scholastic
- Using Journals in the Classroom
- Using Wordle in the classroom
- Wordle - Another way to analyze written material.
- Wordle word clouds - From Teaching with Technology.
Common Core State Standards
- Arizona Common Core Standards
- ASCD Common Core State Standards Resources
- Common Core State Standards Initiative
- Common Curriculum – great classroom tools for building lesson plans and getting organized
- Education Week news about Common Core Standards
- The Teaching Channel Common Core State Standards for ELA and Literacy – Good video explanation of English Language Arts standards. The site also has videos on the other Common Core Standards
Copier Art
Copyright
- Copyright and Fair Use at Stanford University
- Copyright Basics: Fair Use - Fair Use checklist.
- Copyright catechism: practical answers to everyday school dilemmas Carol Simpson, c2005, available from Educational Materials Center
- Copyright Crash Course from the University of Texas
- Copyright for schools: A practical guide One of the best print resources for schools. A 2005 book by Carol Simpson available from Educational Materials Center
- Copyright for Teachers and School Librarians
- Creative Commons
- Digital Images and Fair Use Web Sites – comprehensive list of resources providing guidance on the fair use of images in education
- Indiana University Copyright Resource - Excellent, comprehensive, easy to understand copyright resource.
- The Right to Display Public Domain Images
- When works pass into the public domain University of North Carolina.
Copyright Free Images
- Clipart ETC – from Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse, over 65,000 images
- Free Stock photos
- Learn ICT Picture Gallery
Creativity
- Are schools killing creativity (TED talk)
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
- Classroom Creativity Resources
- Creativity Portal
- Radish sculpture from Noche de Rabanos in Oaxaca
- Robert Rauschenberg video explaining Erased De Kooning. Click Launch, click What's the big idea?, click on orange arrow by Video.
Curriculum Connection
Cybermuseums
- American Masters: Database of Visual Artists
- Art Renewal Center
- Artchive - Includes images, artist biographies, art theory and criticism.
- Artsonia - The world's largest kids' art museum.
- Bicycle Museum of America
- CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum
- Cybermuse - National Gallery of Canada Online.
- Eternal Egypt - This is an outstanding site from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
- Explore Art (Getty Museum) - Learn more about many of the works of art on display at the Getty Center.
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Over 82,000 images from the Legion of Honor and De Young Museums of San Francisco.
- Global Children's Art Gallery
- Google Art Project
- Indigenous Student Global Art (Available in English and Spanish)
- Joconde - Brush up on your French, folks. This huge database of images of the collections of the museums of France is only in French.
- Museum of Non Primate Art - Featuring Why Cats Paint and other online exhibitions.
- MuseumStuff.com - A portal to museums around the world.
- Nature of the Beast - Animals in Japanese paintings and prints.
- Olga's Gallery - Over 10,000 images.
- The Public's Library and Digital Archive
- SIRIS Image Gallery - Selections from the Archives of American Art Collections. Includes archives, documents, and photographs.
- Virtual Uffizi
- Web Gallery of Art - European Painting and Sculpture from 1100-1850, over 22,000 images.
- WebMuseum, Paris - This is an exciting collection of resources on many subjects ranging from Paul Cézanne, to information on Paris, to Medieval art treasures. Many images can be enlarged for closer viewing.
- WorldImages - California State University Image Project, almost 75,000 images.
Dance
- ArtsAlive: Dance - Engaging and interactive educational resources, videos, games, learning tools and a wealth of information designed to build your understanding of and appreciation for dance.
- The Ballerina Gallery
- Dance Art Museum of the Americas
- Dance Heritage Coalition – Dance Treasures
- The Dancers and Degas - Fun activities to learn more about ballet and the works of Edgar Degas featuring ballet.
- Dancing with Gregory Hines
- National Dance Education Organization
- New York City Ballet
Design
- 5 live sketching tips every designer should know
- Color Collective – Great photos of interesting color combinations for designers and artists
- Design and Discovery - Experiencing Engineering through Design, from Intel.
- Sketching and drawing video tutorials for industrial designers
- TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Ideas Worth Spreading
Digital Art
- Brian Evans: Music, mathematics, and visual art
- Digital Palette
- Fantastic Fractals
- Matte painting by David Edwards
Drawing and Sketching
- The Artist’s Toolkit
- Celtic Knotwork
- Convert a photo to a pencil sketch with Photoshop
- Drawing in One-Point Perspective
- Drawing the Portrait
- Drawing with Charcoal
- Fashion sketching for untrained artists
- Figure It Out - Fun activities and tips to show how to draw the human form.
- Joy of Sketch: explorations in hand-crafted visuals
- Kali: Symmetric Sketching
- Moleskine reloaded (Trumpetvine Travels)
- The Sketchbook Project
- SketchCrawl.com - Drawing marathons from around the world
- Sketching and drawing video tutorials for industrial designers
- Sonic sketching - Painting pictures with found sounds (PBS, 4-8).
- Teacher's Guide for the Professional Cartoonist - Lesson plans to use cartoons in your classroom.
- Trumpetvine travels - Sketching for travel, journals and fun.
Economics and Finance
- Baseline Scenario - The Current Financial Crisis for beginners.
- Elementary Economics Lesson Plans from James Madison University
Education
- 2013 Essential Summer Professional Development Catalog (PDF)
- Curriki - Open Source Curriculum
- Edutopia from the George Lucas Educational Foundation
- Kids Teaching Themselves (TED talk)
- Library of Congress Learning Page: Using Primary Sources
- Opening Minds through the Arts
- Picturing to Learn: Using drawing to understand science
- Teaching Secrets
Exhibitions
- 50 of the World’s Strangest Buildings
- A Century of Grand Canyon Art
- All the Mighty World - Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1960. Shows photos of one of the most important photographers of the 19th century. Fenton photographed the English countryside, country houses, cathedrals, the royal family, still lifes, and figures in Asian costume. His photos documenting the Crimean War are among the first to depict war. (NGA)
- Amazing porcelain costumes of Li Xiofeng
- American Impressionism and Realism - Provides essays on 12 paintings and biographies of 8 artists: William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Henry Twachtman (1853-1902), Childe Hassam (1859-1935), and others.
- American Treasures - Divided into three main areas - Memory, Reason, and Imagination - with approximately twenty items in each, this site is exceptionally rich. It is to be a continuously updated exhibit at the Library of Congress.
- Book of Kings (Shahnama) - Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
- A Brush with History - Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery. Features 66 paintings of Americans, including works by some of the most important portrait painters the nation has produced.
- Chandler Center for the Arts - Just a short drive away from Tucson with fabulous, free exhibits.
- Cloth & Clay: Communicating Culture - From the Textile Museum of Canada.
- Dan Flavin - A Retrospective. Looks at the life and works of an artist whose career-long exploration of light established him as a progenitor and chief exponent of minimalism. His use of fluorescent light is featured in this exhibit, the first comprehensive retrospective on one of the most influential artists of the late 20th century. (NGA).
- Discovering Buddhist Art
- Dream Anatomy – Online exhibition from the National Library of Medicine
- Gerard ter Borch - Displays 14 pieces by one of the finest of all Dutch 17th-century painters. Ter Borch (1617-1681) was unrivaled at capturing the elegance and grace of wealthy burghers and expressing with subtlety the interactions between figures. He is renowned for his refined interior scenes and his mastery in rendering materials, particularly satins, which are notoriously difficult to paint. (NGA)
- James McNeill Whistler - Freer-Sackler Galleries
- Japanese Art Online Exhibition
- The Legacy Project
- Modernism - Discover over 250 objects representing nine Modernist movement.
- Motions of the Mind
- The Pottery Project Arizona State Museum
- Rhizome ArtBase
- Science and the Artist's Book
- Surrounded by Beauty: Arts of Native America
- This is Colossal – an incredible website by a blogger Christopher Jobson who finds amazing visual art
- Universal Leonardo
- Van Gogh - Gauguin Experience - An interactive on-line experience about time that Van Gogh and Gauguin spent together in the yellow house and their thoughts and feelings before, during and after. Includes some fun little puzzles and on-line activities. The site fits really well with the book "The Yellow House" by Susan Goldman Rubin. Click English to get the English language version.
- World Myths and Legends in Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
Extreme Art
- Artwork made with office supplies
- Rebecca Murtaugh – Click on Works and then on Color Coded to see what can be done with Post-its.
Fiber Arts
Flipped Learning
- Flipped Learning Network - A professional learning community for teachers using screencasting in education.
- Flipped Learning: A response to 5 common criticism – good discussion of flipped learning from Alan November’s November learning
- Flipping the elementary classroom
- Flip this video explains the Flip this video button on TED-Ed videos (Ignore the block message if you see it and scroll down to see a good explanation of how to use TED-Ed videos
- Flipped Learning Resources – A great list of web links about and for use with flipped learning
- A Pedagogy-First Approach to the Flipped Classroom – High school chemistry teacher’s post about flipped learning, very good but heavy reading
- Video about how to use Google forms for feedback and communication with students
Folk Art
- American Folk Art Museum
- El Arte Folklorico del Sur de Arizona - Southern Arizona Folk Arts Spanish website.
- Jerry Hall's World of Imagination
- Museum of International Folk Art
- Southern Arizona Folk Arts
- Visionary Folk Art Environments in the United States
Genealogy
- Cyndi’s List – This is the starting point for genealogy research. A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
Graffiti
- Environmental Graffiti – An online magazine covering graffiti around the world
- Inhabitat
- The Reverse Graffiti Project - Works correctly only on FireFox.
Green Things (including schools)
- American Rivers
- Arizona Wildflowers
- Clean Green Graffiti
- Creative Creatures: A Global Trash Menagerie
- Green Kids Maps Worldwide
- Green Pueblo Map
- Green Schools Project
- Junk to Funk - trashion (trash + fashion) collective
- Outsapop – Fashion from discards
- WildFlower Report
- Wildflowers of Tucson, Arizona
History
- Archiving Early America
- Arizona Historical Society Online Catalog
- Picturing America - From the National Endowment for the Humanities, available from Educational Materials Center.
- Picturing the 1930's
Holidays and Events
- Cinco de Mayo - Biography of General Ignacio Zaragoza, Hero of the Battle of Puebla.
- Cinco de Mayo Webquest
- Dia de los Muertos: Activities from AZCentral
- Dia de los Muertos Background
- Dia de los Muertos Background Information
- Dia de los Muertos Folk Art
- Dia de los Muertos Links from MexConnect
- Dia de los Muertos: Pan de Muertos (Recipe)
- Dia de los Muertos Photos
- Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros - Celebrating children and books
- Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros: Celebrating children and books (Texas)
- Diwali, the Festival of Lights - From the Tucson Children's Museum
- Earth Day Festival in Tucson
- Easter: Unique Easter Egg
- Iditarod
- Kwanzaa Activities from Enchanted Learning
- Kwanzaa: History Channel
- Kwanzaa Mini-Unit from TeacherLink
- National Pi Day
- Pi Day (Wikipedia)
- Pi Day at the Exploratorium
- Thanksgiving activities from Enchanted Learning (K-3)
- Thanksgiving: Food Fight Potential of Thanksgiving dinner
- Thanksgiving: Foolproof Turkey Recipe - An absolutely foolproof, easy, turkey recipe from a school librarian. Tested by 1000's of other school librarians!
- Thanksgiving Lesson Ideas from Education World
- Thanksgiving Turkey song – a Thanksgiving classic
- Thanksgiving Webquest from Scholastic
- Thinking about Thanksgiving: Lessons across the curriculum - Cross curricular lessons and links from Education World.
Inspiration
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
- Desert Wildflowers
- The Fischbowl Presentations by Karl Fisch, creator of Did you know?
- Generating Art Ideas
- Hello in 30 languages from Internet Public Library
- Hobart Shakespeareans - Rafe Esquith (Teach like your hair's on fire) and the students from Hobart Elementary in Los Angeles.
- The importance of interdisciplinary studies
- Reversible Destiny - Only opens correctly with Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome
- Shift Happens wiki by Karl Fisch, the creator of Did you know?
- Unique Easter Egg
- West Virginia Department of Education - Walking the talk with 21st century skills.
Internet Tips, Tricks & Treats
- Bering Strait School District - A school district wiki
- Bing Translator - Text and website translation
- Curriki - Open Source Curriculum
- Fine and Performing Arts Wiki
- Google Gulp - An internet "Easter Egg"
- Internet Searching - a tutorial from UC Berkeley
- It's My Life: PBSKids
- Searching the Internet - Internet for classrooms
- Smithsonian Blogs
- Symphony of Friendship
- wonderfl - An online Flash IDE and community. You can write an Action Script online and save it to your computer.
Language Arts
- An Indispensible Guide to Literary Resources Online
- Ashanti Linguist
- Children's Picture Book Database - A resource for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects
- Cowboy Poetry
- Exquisite Corpse Adventure – a great continuing story and game from Library of Congress
- Language Arts - Literature Circles with a Story Quilt
- Using Writing in Mathematics
Lessons
- Activities and Guides from The Legacy Project
- Ancient History from Mr. Donn
- Art Teacher on the Net - Art ideas for all including projects from all over the world.
- ArtsWork - K-12 arts education materials.
- Cowboys: A 6-8 Lesson Plan from Discovery Education
- Del Corazon! - Latino Voices in American Art. Lessons developed by the University of Arizona in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution.
- Elementary Economics Lesson Plans from James Madison University
- Equations, Patterns and Weaving (Grades 8-11)
- Geological Society of America – Earth science lesson plans and resources
- The Getty Museum - From the Getty Institute for the Arts - many lesson plans and curriculum ideas.
- Getty Museum’s Grade by Grade Guide to Building Visual Arts Lessons
- Haring Kids
- Incredible Art Lessons - Showcasing art lessons submitted by teachers.
- Japanese Art: Activities from Thinkquest
- Kwanzaa Lesson (K-2)
- Learning to Give: Service learning
- Lesson Corner – large selection of free lesson plans, also has premium content available for low yearly subscription
- Lessons Plans Page from HotChalk
- Modern Teachers – from the Museum of Modern Art
- Music and Art Lessons
- NGA Classroom - For Teachers and Students. A great place where teachers and students can connect art and curriculum. From the extensive choices provided, you can access lessons and resources by curriculum, topic, or artist. And don't miss their interactive features including Ancient Arcade, where you become a myth-master with this game of gods and symbols -- Medal Maker, where you draw, paint and print your own medal -- Mobile Maker, where you design your own mobile and spin it -- Cake Maker, where you decorate cakes in the art bakery.
- Nineteenth-Century America in Art and Literature presents documents paired with 7 paintings, including "Mahantango Valley Farm," "Jolly Flatboatmen," and "White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas." These paintings and writings help students see the impact of geography, technology, economics, and politics as America moved west, shifted from farming to industry, and fought a civil war. (NGA)
- North American Cultures: a lesson plan from Discovery Education
- PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for easy, instant access to thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans. You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia™ is free for educators. http://az.pbslearningmedia.org/
- The performing arts in art – Getty Museum’s interdisciplinary curriculum exploring the ways visual artist have interpreted the performing arts.
- Picturing America: Lesson plans from EDSITEment
- Quilts in the classroom
- Scholastic for Teachers
- Sonic sketching: Painting pictures with found sounds (PBS, 4-8)
- Teacher Resource Center of the Oriental Institute Museum – Lessons and activities on Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Nubia.
- TeacherLINK from the Adele and Dale Young Education Technology Center
- Textured Turkeys; Grade 1-5: Texture as an element of art
- Thanksgiving Lesson Ideas from Education World
- Thanksgiving Lesson Plans from Teachnology
- Thanksgiving multidisciplinary art lesson; Grade 3
- ThinkQuest
Libraries
- Arizona Historical Society Online Catalog
- Library of Congress
- Pima Community College Library
- Pima County Public Library
- TUSD School Libraries from inside TUSD
- TUSD School Libraries from outside TUSD
- University of Arizona Online Catalog
Local Interest
- El Tour de Tucson
- El Tour de Tucson: Marcel Duchamp's Dada Bicycle Wheel
- El Tour de Tucson: Science of Cycling from the Exploratorium
- Fiesta de Los Vaqueros
- In the steps of Esteban - Tucson's African American Heritage.
- Jerry Hall's World of Imagination
- Scottsdale Celebration of Fine Art
- Tucson Community Food Bank
- Tucson Desert Song Festival – annual 10 day Festival celebrating vocal music
- Tucson Festival of Books
- Tucson Muralist David Tineo in Southern Arizona Folk Arts
- Tucson Murals Project
- Tucson Show Guide - A listing of all rock, fossil, gem, jewelry, and bead shows in Tucson.
Mathematics
- Equations, Patterns and Weaving
- Getting started with Math Writing
- Martin Wattenberg - Data as abstract art; using data displays for understand; collective creation of data-driven art.
- Math-aids.com – Resource for generating and printing math worksheets, flash cards, etc.
- Nanoscale activities from NTSA (6-12)
- National Library of Math Manipulatives – sponsored by the National Science Foundation
- Numbers to Neurons: Digital Synaesthesia
- Powers of 10
- Powers of 10 experience from CERN Particle Physics Laboratory
- Quilting and Math Webquest
- Quilting With Elementary School Students: Using Fractions To Develop Quilt Designs
- Quilting With Middle School Students: Using Proportionality to Develop Quilt designs
- Quilting with High School Students: Creating Polynomial Quilts
- Using Writing in Mathematics
- The Virtual Math Museum - Learn how graphic art relies on the visual appeal of math.
Mixed Media
- Laura Breitman Mixed Media Collage - You have to see it to believe it!
Monday Communique
Museums
- 48 Pieces
- Destination Modern Art
- Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian, Japanese Art Collection
- George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
- Green – the Color and Cause
- Historic Threads
- Museum of Bad Art
- National Museum of African Art
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Nature of the Beast - Animals in Japanese Painting and Prints
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
- Rockwell Museum of Western Art - Discover a new understanding of the American West through these works of art.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The State Hermitage Museum
- University of Alberta Museums KidZone - An interactive web site that invites children to go on mysterious adventures, play games that test their knowledge and learn about research being done by University of Alberta professors.
Music
- A Drum Lessons Database
- American Sabor Home Page: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
- American Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
- Arizona Opera: Education
- ARTSEDGE: The Arab World
- BBC Orchestras & Singers
- Beethoven Reference Site
- Beethoven Rocks! - An introduction to the life and work of the Classical music composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
- Carnegie Hall Listening Guides - learn about sound, music notation, text, and instruments through engaging Web-based games.
- Chord House
- Classics for Kids
- Creative Kids Central
- DSO Kids - Welcome to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's "magical world" of musical fun and learning with these interactive activities and music clips.
- Food Safety Music
- Gerry Mulligan Collection - Presents audio excerpts, scores, photos, and information about the jazz composer and band leader who elevated the baritone sax to the status of a solo instrument and, with his piano-less quartet, helped establish the "West Coast jazz" sound. The autobiography section includes Mulligan's recollections of playing with Charlie Parker and the months he spent with Miles Davis and others at Gil Evans' apartment leading up to the "Birth of the Cool" album. (LOC)
- A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, audio samples and history.
- History of Jazz: Scholastic
- Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues - Examines the history of country guitar, country fiddling, country blues, Jimmie Rodgers (the father of country music), Thomas Dorsey (famous for raunchy records and sacred hymns), the Carter Family, Bob Wills and western swing, the Maddox Brothers and sister Rose, accordion-inspired "conjunto" (combination) music along Mexico's northern border, honky tonk women and more. Descriptions, photos and sound clips of music and interviews are included. (NEH)
- Jazz In America - Lesson plans and other resources that trace the development of jazz as a part of the American music culture.
- John Philip Sousa - American Composer, Conductor and Patriot. Features biography, bibliography, work list, sound files, news, links and more!
- K-12 Resources for Music Educators - Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels.
- Library of Congress - Music, Theater and Dance. Experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials.
- Magic Maestro Music: Classical Music CD's for Children. Great CD's with lots of extras. Educational Materials Center has several titles available for checkout.
- Mississippi Blues Trail - Travel along to discover the stories of the people and places of American Jazz.
- Morton Subotnick’s Creating Music
- The Mozart Project - A wealth of resources is available on this site concerning the life, times, and works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- Music and Songs
- Music Education Resource Links - This music education homepage is organized to provide links to curriculum resources for each of the nine national content standards as presented by the National Standards for Art Education.
- Music Notes
- Music Tech Teacher Quizzes & Games
- Musical Mysteries
- Nashville Symphony Orchestra - Kids
- NEA Jazz in the Schools
- The New York Philharmonic Kidzone!
- Perfect Pitch - Get to know the instruments of the orchestra and make music.
- Piano on the Net
- Ricci Adams’ Musictheory.net
- San Francisco Symphony for Kids - This site provides information about instruments, a music basics tutorial and a listing of family programs and activities at the San Francisco Symphony.
- Science of Music: Accidental Scientist - What is music? Is birdsong music? How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door? Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum? Explore the science of music through these online exhibits, movies and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment and above all… listen.
- Sonic sketching: Painting pictures with found sounds (PBS, 4-8)
- Sphinx Kids! Classical Music Interactive Learning & Games
- The Story of Swan Lake (CD from Maestro Classics)
- Thomas Hampson - I Hear America Singing
- Tucson Desert Song Festival – annual 10 day Festival celebrating vocal music
- Tucson Festival of Books
- Virtual Keyboard
- The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Opera
- Arizona Opera: Education
- Creating an original opera: Thirteen Ed online (4-6)
- Great Performances: Lesson plans for teachers
- Opera is a class act!
- Opera Journeys Publishing: Resources for Opera Education
Painting
- Art and Painting Tips - Artistic Advice and In-depth Art Tutorials for Artists
- ArtPad - Digital canvas
- Free Watercolor Painting Tutorials
- Landscape Painting in Chinese Art: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Paint with Elizabeth Murray
- Painting: Art Studio Chalkboard, University of Evansville
Paper Art
- 100 Extraordinary examples of Paper Art
- Anna Wili Highfield – Torn Paper Sculpture
- Ingrid Siliakus – Cut and folded paper
- Jen Stark – Paper sculpture
- Michael Methven’s luminarios
- The Paper Cut Project – Wonderful cut paper sculpture
- Waturu Itou – Incredible paper fantasy castle
Performing Arts
- The Art of Puppetry - Explore the Canadian Museum of Civilization's puppet collection while you learn about the amazing history behind this art form.
- Great Performances (PBS)
- Performing Arts Alliance: the Coalition of Performing Arts Advocates
- Performing Arts in Art – Getty Museum curricula and lesson plans
- Puppetry Home Page
Photography
- A million photographs
- Alfred Stieglitz
- All the Mighty World - Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1960 Shows photos of one of the most important photographers of the 19th century. Fenton photographed the English countryside, country houses, cathedrals, the royal family, still lifes, and figures in Asian costume. His photos documenting the Crimean War are among the first to depict war. (NGA)
- The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier, Jr. - Most of the photographs on this site were taken during the war years of the 1940s. The FSA/OWI hired John Collier Jr. to document day-to-day life in America with a focus on issues of civil defense and public morale.
- Center for Creative Photography
- Edward Curtis
- Erwin E. Smith: Cowboy Photographer
- George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
- Jerry Uelsmann
- Josh Schacter Photography
- The Printed Picture – Photographer Richard Benson covers the history and nuts and bolts of photography and printing. An excellent resource for anyone trying to figure out why their printed picture doesn’t look the same as on the screen.
Printing, Printmaking and Typography
- Children of the code: The DNA of Science – A brief history of the alphabet
- International Printing Museum
- Planet Typography – Lots and lots about fonts and typefaces
- The Printed Picture – Photographer Richard Benson covers the history and nuts and bolts of photography and printing. An excellent resource for anyone trying to figure out why their printed picture doesn’t look the same as on the screen.
Professional/Personal Learning Networks
- Personal Learning Networks are virtual lockers for school kids – Edutopia article on students using Personal Learning Networks
- Professional Learning Network (PLN) e-Course for Teachers
- Resources for growing your Professional Learning Network
Quilting
- Faith Ringgold
- Language Arts: Literature Circles with a Story Quilt
- More than Warmth – 2 interdisciplinary K-12 lesson plans
- Quilt Ethnic
- Quilting With Elementary School Students: Using Fractions To Develop Quilt Designs
- Quilting With Middle School Students: Using Proportionality to Develop Quilt designs
- Quilting with High School Students: Creating Polynomial Quilts
- Quilts in the classroom
- Transformable quilts by Norwegian quilter Eldrid Røyset Førde
Recycling
- Alessandro Fiordaliso – Art from recycled materials
- Ann Weber – Cardboard sculpture
- Building a shelter from real estate agents abandoned signs
- Chris Gilmour – Cardboard sculpture
- Creative Creatures: A Global Trash Menagerie
- Mykl Wells – Tucson sculptor working with cardboard
- Tucson Recycling and Waste Reduction Education Programs
Science
- Chicago Field Museum Evolving Planet – Great site for exploring geologic time
- Evolutionary Genealogy – Resource for teachers
- Geological Society of America – Earth science lesson plans and resources
- Journey of Mankind – Shows the movement of people on the map over the last 160,000 years. The shows both the movement of people with the changes in climate and provides information about the scientific discoveries that are the basis of the map. This is a wonderful site!
- National Center for Science Education
- OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer
- Palaeos: Life through Deep Time – Interesting but cryptic site
- Science of Music - Accidental Scientist. What is music? Is birdsong music? How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door? Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum? Explore the science of music through these online exhibits, movies and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment and above all…listen.
- Time Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project – Huge site, lots of picture, easy navigation
Sculpture
- About sculpture in Western Art (Getty Education)
- Claes Oldenburg - Coosje Van Bruggen
- Jennifer Maestre Sculpture - Creating Art from pencils.
- Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in sculpture (Getty Education) (9-12)
Student Art
- Finding Voice: Arts and Literacy from Catalina High School
- Indigenous Student Global Art - (Available in English and Spanish)
- Interview with Josh Schacter, photographer, about Finding Voice, from What Kids Can Do
- TUSD Student Art Shows 2007-2010
- TUSD/OMA Student Gallery Shows 2008
- What Kids Can Do
Time, Calendar and Clocks
Technology and Arts
- Smart Fabric
- Sonic sketching: Painting pictures with found sounds (PBS, 4-8)
- Martin Wattenberg - Data as abstract art; using data displays for understand; collective creation of data-driven art.
Tools for Art and Imagination
Weaving and Braiding
- Celtic Knotwork
- Easy Weaving Activities
- Equations, Patterns and Weaving
- How to Weave
- Weave a cloak for Ffearless Ffion
- Weaving the Light: Poetry, folklore, and weaving
Web Play
- Bouncing Teddy Bears
- Coolmath4kids - Math games, jigsaw puzzles and more.
- Create online graffiti
- Digital interactive flower garden
- Hampster Dance
- Mad Money: Budgeting game from PBSKids
- Virtual Bubble Wrap
- What would Frida wear - Dress a Frida Kahlo virtual paper doll in huipils or Folklorico Costumes.
- Why Cats Paint