Lesson Plans

http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/index.html

A Lifetime of Color (Sandford-Artedventures) A great Website for teachers, students, and anyone who likes art. It has hundreds of activities and lesson plans to create, study, play or teach art.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Artcyclopedia A very useful and easy to search directory of artists, paintings, and art institutions. This site also provides online resources and articles about the Fine Arts.

Great art teaching ideas for busy teachers.

http://www.kinderart.com

Over 650 excellent free art lessons - Grades K-12

http://www.crayola.com/educators/index.cfm

Great art website. So many lesson plans, activities, could keep kids busy for weeks!

Textures:

textures.htm

Lots of choices of artistic textures to use for backgrounds for webpages.

http://www.grsites.com/textures/

Some really cool textures to use for backgrounds for webpages.

textures.html

Dr. Bob's Interesting 3D and 2D textures for background.

Museums:

http://www.paris.org/Musees/

http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

A guide to the Louvre Museum in English

http://www.mfa.org/

A complete guide to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

http://moma.org/index.html

A complete guide to the Modern Art Museum in New York.

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/

Excellent website with Lesson Plans & Curriculum Ideas, Image Galleries & Exhibitions, ArtsEdNet Talk, Web Links, Reading Room & Publications and Search & Index.

http://www.BergerFoundation.ch/

The purpose of World Art Treasures is to promulgate the love and discovery of Art. It contains 100,000 slides of many civilizations. It contains slides, themes, audios and essays from famous artists to studies of many cultures. Excellent art history website.

Webquests

Art Capades:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/capades/
Not really a webquest, but the Art Capades site will provide some search and respond internet activity for K-3 students, while allowing them to explore art and artists online before creating their own masterpieces.
How does art make you feel? How does style affect you? pick a picture you like and make a Monitor Museum to share, re-create your favorite paintings and Imitate. Masters Swapping Styles lets you try a different style than the one the artist used.

All About Art:
http://library.thinkquest.org/J00l159/index.htmindex.htm
These pages contiture a Think Quest Junior project, and are full of information and links about artist and their separate styles. Also find games which will test knowledge once the tour has been completed. Unable to locate,

Inside Art Art History Hunt:
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html
On this art history adventure, students will locate information about styles and techniques of different artists by examining their paintings from the inside our. They will also be answering interactive questions as they go, and finishing their adventure with a final quiz. Worksheets are available under Teachers' Resources. Grade 4 and up. Excellent webquest of VanGogh's style of Painting. Fun to do and educational.

Art For Sale:
http://www.itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/curriculum/artforsale.htmlartforsale.html

For grades 5-8. Students take on the role of museum directors to research Pacific Northwest Native American tribes and their art. They will need to posit how the culture and the visual art forms are related, and what their history is . For their final presentation, they will create a history of the selected art pieces and their relationship to Pacific N.W. culture, a chart displaying artists' use of artistic elements, a Northwest Coastal tribal region map, and a spreadsheet with pricing trends for art.

Ace Pintura, Art Detective:
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
All of the links are self-contained within this art history unit. Students must solve the case of Grandpa's painting, learning art composition, styles, painters and techniques along the way. Grades 4 and up.

Making Architecture:
http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/Arch/welcome.html

A set of questions about the architecture of the Getty Art Museum will guide students through selected online resources. Further discussion questions and teacher guides are also available.

Non-Traditional Art Webquest:
http://www.art.ttu.edu/arted/karen/WebQuests/nontrad.html

Grades 9-12 students will get exposure to different forms of art, typically considered non-traditional, while considering just what might be considered art.

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