The Astonishing World of Musical Instruments

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

PlayMusic

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

Art Safari

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

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

A Lifetime of Colour

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

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

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

Learn about instruments

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

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

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

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

Art Attacks - Site has creative art ideas for primary children

Perspective

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