Resources for the Arts

Inside Art

2008-08-09T13:19:00.000-07:00

Inside Art is an online game which explores a painting from the inside out. During an art museum tour, you're sucked into a vortex and find yourself inside a mystery painting. Your only hope of escape is to answer the questions "Who?/What?/Where?/How?" Inside Art is designed for 4th-graders and up.

My Pop Studio

2008-08-09T13:17:00.000-07:00

My Pop Studio: Ready to pop behind-the-scenes of the television you watch, magazines you read, music you listen to and websites you visit? Our "studios" let you take the reins. Create. Comment. Control. Explore your media, your way!

This Web site for 'tween-age girls promotes media literacy and gives girls a chance to create music, edit a TV show, publish a magazine and reflect on the role of digital media in their lives.

* Create your own pop star and put her concert online for the world to enjoy!
* Edit your own reality show, spinning the story the way you want!
* Make your own celebrity magazine featuring you and your favorite actors and singers!
* Test your multi-tasking abilities and find out how well you can do many things at the same time!

Art Detective

2008-08-09T13:15:00.000-07:00

A. Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and art composition. In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history. A. Pintura: Art Detective is designed for 4th-graders and up. Students can play the game independently or in small groups.

Trouble with Treble

2008-08-09T13:12:00.001-07:00

Trouble with Treble focuses on grade 4 expectations from the Ontario Curriculum. The specific expectations covered are: recognize that the treble clef defines the names of the lines (e,g,b,d,f) and spaces (f,a,c,e) on the staff ; recognize that specific pitches may be represented by notes placed on a staff; identify whole notes, half-notes, quarter-notes, and eighth-notes, and their corresponding rests in 4/4 time. Student worksheets are included.

ArtsAlive.ca Music

2008-08-09T13:09:00.000-07:00

The National Arts Centre (NAC) presents ArtsAlive.ca Music, a great place to discover the excitement of the performing arts! Learn all about orchestral music, the NAC Orchestra, its musicians and friends, great composers, conductors and much more!

English Theatre

2008-08-09T13:07:00.000-07:00

English Theatre is designed to uncover the behind-the-scenes world of professional English Canadian Theatre. Within these web pages we invite parents, teachers and students to embark on a journey through thematically organized content that will lead to a greater understanding of and appreciation for the people and processes involved in transforming a play from the page to the stage.

Step up to dance

2008-08-09T13:06:00.000-07:00

Step up to dance: Dance lovers, students and teachers: this is where you'll find engaging and interactive educational resources, videos, games, learning tools and a wealth of information designed to build your understanding of and appreciation for dance.

Open Your Ears

2008-08-09T13:04:00.000-07:00

Open Your Ears - Play Musical Bingo, Tour an Orchestra, Explore Musical Moods, Make Your Own Music

Fun With Music

2008-08-09T13:03:00.001-07:00

Fun With Music: San Francisco Symphony for Kids - learn about the elements of music and the instruments of a symphony orchestra

Music through the Curriculum

2008-08-09T13:00:00.000-07:00

Music through the Curriculum - activities that connect music to Reading, Math and Science. If you're interested in connecting music to other areas of the curriculum, this page is for you! It contains links to arts integration resources, multimedia activities, and homemade instrument projects.

Essentials of Music

2008-08-09T12:59:00.002-07:00

Essentials of Music - "Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's the site for basic information about classical music." The main sections are;
Eras: Overviews of the six main periods in music history -- Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century.
Composers: Brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will bring to life the artists and their works.
Glossary: 200 definitions with numerous musical examples.

Drama Workshop

2008-08-09T12:59:00.001-07:00

Drama Workshop: Ideas For Teaching Drama
This site contains my own collection of ideas I have used for teaching drama both in Theatre Workshop contexts for Youth Theatre Groups and for developing spoken language skills with students across a variety of age and ability ranges.

Child Drama.com

2008-08-09T12:53:00.000-07:00

ChildDrama.com: This website is packed with resources for Drama Teachers in Elementary and Secondary Schools, and for producers of Theatre for Young Audiences. I created this website to help me get my own plays out there, and to provide help and support to producers, school Theatre directors, and classroom Drama teachers. Since then it has become one of the biggest educational drama resources on the net. There is all sorts of great stuff here!
Lesson Plans: Most of these lesson plans work with a large age range. These lessons are presented with fairly specific instructions.

Drama from Picture Books

2008-08-09T12:52:00.000-07:00

Drama from Picture Books: I often use children's picture books as lesson starters in my classroom. Below are some suggestions, based on the kind of approaches I have taken, for how you can turn a picture book into a Creative Drama lesson. There is also a link to a list of picture books I have found especially well-suited to Drama, each with a short explaination of how I have used it.

101 Drama Games for Children: Fun and Learning with Acting and Make-Believe

2008-08-09T12:48:00.000-07:00

JazzKids

2008-08-09T12:44:00.000-07:00

JazzKids: Lesson Plans from PBS. Online activities are designed for students in grades K-5, with accompanying lesson plans for language arts (LA), social studies (SS), music (MU), and math (MA) teachers.

Mozart WebQuest

2008-08-09T12:43:00.000-07:00

Mozart WebQuest. Time Machine. As a time traveler, you are expected to gather information about the famous composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Famous Paintings

2008-08-09T12:42:00.001-07:00

Famous Paintings: Art Appreciation Lessons for Kids. An art web quest for children in elementary and middle school, biographies of famous artists, free art worksheets.

ARTiculation

2008-08-09T12:40:00.000-07:00

ARTiculation: Learning to Look at Art. Contents: Elements of Art (Line, Color, Texture, Shape, Form, Space, Value), Principles of Design (Rhythm & Movement, Balance, Proportion, Variety & Emphasis, Harmony & Unity), Art Critiquing Process, Lessons Plans and Activities, Reviews & Resources, Timeline, and Vocabulary.

Crayola's Lesson Plans

2008-08-09T12:35:00.000-07:00

Crayola's Lesson Plans: A searchable directory of lesson plans that utilize crayola products. Find hundreds of hands-on, standards-based lesson plan ideas designed to:
* Integrate the arts into the daily curriculum
* Stimulate independent thinking through visual learning
Search ideas by grade, subject, theme, and/or Crayola product.

The Astonishing World of Musical Instruments

2008-08-09T12:34:00.001-07:00

The Astonishing World of Musical Instruments - from the Virtual Museum of Canada

PlayMusic

2008-08-09T12:32:00.001-07:00

PlayMusic - This is a fun, interactive site from the American Symphony Orchestra League which presents information and interactive games about orchestral instruments.

Art Safari

2008-08-09T12:27:00.000-07:00

Art Safari - Created by the Museum of Modern Art this site teaches you how to look at and talk about art. Online activities encourage children to write stories about art and to create their own artwork.

Music and Movement in the Classroom

2008-08-09T12:25:00.000-07:00

Music and Movement in the Classroom: Teacher Resource Books and Planners with CD.

A Lifetime of Colour

2008-08-09T12:20:00.000-07:00

A Lifetime of Colour: Our lesson plans will make all of your classroom subjects more colourful! Incorporate art, creativity and colour into a variety of subjects like science, social studies, math and reading to help students grasp concepts. Complete with background information and downloadable visual resources. Search for lesson plans by subject or grade level.

The Artist's Toolkit

2008-08-09T12:18:00.000-07:00

The Artist's Toolkit - Visual Elements and Principles - explore the tools that artists use - like line, colour and balance - to build works of art

Music Notes

2008-08-09T12:16:00.000-07:00

Music Notes: An Interactive Online Musical Experience that includes music:
Theory, History, Styles, Professions, Instruments, Games

Learn about instruments

2008-08-09T12:12:00.000-07:00

Learn about instruments: Learn about the different families and different types of instruments.

Great site for students. They can click on any instrument to hear it - Strings | Woodwinds | Brass Percussion |

Blick Art Materials: Lesson Plans

2008-07-17T17:29:00.000-07:00

Lesson Plans from Blick Art - Looking for ideas to use in the classroom? Give some of these elementary through junior high lesson plans a try! Includes pictures of finished projects.

A Survival Kit for the Elementary/Middle School Art Teacher

2008-07-17T17:27:00.000-07:00

This comprehensive resource provides practical information, proven management tips, and over 100 specially selected art projects to help new and veteran K-8 art teachers implement an effective art education program and make art appreciation and activities fun. For easy use, materials are printed in a big 8 ?" x 11" format with lay-flat binding for photocopying of various management aids and student project handouts, and organized into two main parts. Part 1, The Art Program, offers tested guidelines and reproducible tools for building and managing the program. Part 2, The Art Curriculum, presents 102 exciting art projects organized by medium into nine units: (1) Exploring the Elements & Principles of Design, (2) Paper, (3) Painting, (4) Drawing with Pencil, Pastels, Crayons & Markers, (5) Painting, (6) Printmaking, (7) Three-Dimensional Design, (8) Architecture, and (9) Technology: Computer, Photography, Video.

ArtsEdge

2008-07-17T17:22:00.000-07:00

Arts-Edge Lessons - from the Kennedy Centre come these banks of lesson plan links arranged by grade level. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the visual arts with other academic subjects.

Art Attacks

2008-07-17T17:21:00.001-07:00

Art Attacks - Site has creative art ideas for primary children

Perspective

2008-07-17T17:19:00.000-07:00

Perspective - A PowerPoint presentation on the terms and definitions of Perspective

Drama

2008-01-06T09:11:00.001-08:00

Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays -

Arts Edventures

2008-01-06T08:45:00.000-08:00

ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!