|
|
Art Education P-12
| Elementary |
 |
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
 |
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for
educators.
* Web-based |
|
|
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
|
|
Art History resources
including videos, pictures, museum tours, lessons and more,
* Web-based |
|
|
Art Project: Explore
museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of
artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your
own collection of masterpieces. Create your own collect by saving
specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build your own
personalized collection (future). Comments can be added to each
image.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artist's Toolkit:
Explore line, color, shape, balance among
others.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artnet is the place
to buy, sell and research fine art online. artnet Galleries is the
largest network of its kind, with over 2,200 galleries in over 250
cities worldwide, more than 166,000 artworks by over 39,000 artists
from around the globe. Other key services include artnet Magazine,
the insider's guide to the art market with daily news, reviews, and
features by renowned writers in the art community and the Price
Database.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artsonia is the
world's largest kids art museum online. It's the newest way to
celebrate creativity in the classroom and get families involved in
art education!
* Web-based * Free Membership required |
|
|
Aviary is a website
that provides free applications for creating digital art, graphic
design, and audio mixing. It is a learning, sharing, supporting and
teaching site, made up of amazing applications and an even more
amazing community of artists.
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and
membership |
|
|
CBBC: Activities
around mixing and sorting colors
* Web-based |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by
user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
|
|
Fatpaint is a free
online graphic design software (desktop publishing) and webshop.
It's the only graphics application out there where page layouting,
drawing, imaging and merchandise printing tools are integrated. You
can have your graphic design, photos and artwork printed on
products.
* Web-based * Save to computer |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
* Web-based |
|
|
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
* Web-based |
|
|
PicLits.com is a
creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully
selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the
right words in the right place and the right order to capture the
essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
* Web-based |
|
|
PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
* Web-based * Download to computer |
|
|
Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
* Web-based |
|
|
Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
* Web-based |
|
|
Shape Collage: Photos
are automatically and intelligently placed using a very fast patent
pending method. Make collages in any imaginable shape/form:
rectangle, heart, circle, letters, or draw your own shape!
* Download Software * Upgrade available at additional
charge |
|
|
Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
* Download to computer |
|
|
SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
* Web-based |
|
Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
* Web-based |
|
|
Tagxedo can create
visually stunning word clouds. With just one click, you can rotate
the cloud, modify its colors and font, and also alternate between
themes and shapes as you please. You can even upload your own
images and have the word cloud assume the shape of the image.
* No membership required * Save online *
Web-based |
|
|
The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
* Web-based |
|
|
Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
* Web-based |
|
|
Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
* Web-based |
|
|
Wordle is a toy for
generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds
give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the
source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts,
layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are
yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them
to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
* Web-based * Cannot control shape |
| Middle Grades |
|
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
|
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for educators.
* Web-based |
|
|
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
|
|
Art History resources
including videos, pictures, museum tours, lessons and more,
* Web-based |
|
|
Art Project: Explore
museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of
artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your
own collection of masterpieces. Create your own collect by saving
specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build your own
personalized collection (future). Comments can be added to each
image.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artist's Toolkit:
Explore line, color, shape, balance among others.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artnet is the place
to buy, sell and research fine art online. artnet Galleries is the
largest network of its kind, with over 2,200 galleries in over 250
cities worldwide, more than 166,000 artworks by over 39,000 artists
from around the globe. Other key services include artnet Magazine,
the insider's guide to the art market with daily news, reviews, and
features by renowned writers in the art community and the Price
Database.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artsonia is the
world's largest kids art museum online. It's the newest way to
celebrate creativity in the classroom and get families involved in
art education!
* Web-based * Free Membership required |
|
|
Aviary is a website
that provides free applications for creating digital art, graphic
design, and audio mixing. It is a learning, sharing, supporting and
teaching site, made up of amazing applications and an even more
amazing community of artists.
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and membership |
|
|
CBBC: Activities
around mixing and sorting colors
* Web-based |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
|
|
Fatpaint is a free
online graphic design software (desktop publishing) and webshop.
It's the only graphics application out there where page layouting,
drawing, imaging and merchandise printing tools are integrated. You
can have your graphic design, photos and artwork printed on
products.
* Web-based * Save to computer |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
 |
With Let's Create: Pottery making ceramics has
never been more simple and fun! Become a true artist and create
"one of a kind" pottery items and share them with your friends!
Throw the clay on the wheel, release all your artistic talents and
take benefit of dozens of materials available in order to create
your own design! Even when you glaze and fire your very first pot
you will feel accomplished and relaxed as pottery is the best way
to relieve your everyday stress and find your inner peace. An
amazing, therapeutic and uplifting experience you can enjoy with
your family and friends! |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
* Web-based |
|
|
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
* Web-based |
|
|
PicLits.com is a
creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully
selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the
right words in the right place and the right order to capture the
essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
* Web-based |
|
|
PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
* Web-based * Download to computer |
|
|
Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
* Web-based |
|
|
Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
* Web-based |
|
|
Shape Collage: Photos
are automatically and intelligently placed using a very fast patent
pending method. Make collages in any imaginable shape/form:
rectangle, heart, circle, letters, or draw your own shape!
* Download Software * Upgrade available at additional charge |
|
|
Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
* Download to computer |
|
|
SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
* Web-based |
|
Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
* Web-based |
|
|
Tagxedo can create
visually stunning word clouds. With just one click, you can rotate
the cloud, modify its colors and font, and also alternate between
themes and shapes as you please. You can even upload your own
images and have the word cloud assume the shape of the image.
* No membership required * Save online * Web-based |
|
|
The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
* Web-based |
|
|
Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
* Web-based |
|
|
Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
* Web-based |
|
|
Wordle is a toy for
generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds
give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the
source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts,
layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are
yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them
to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
* Web-based * Cannot control shape |
| Secondary |
|
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
|
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for educators.
* Web-based |
|
|
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
|
|
Art History resources
including videos, pictures, museum tours, lessons and more,
* Web-based |
|
|
Art Project: Explore
museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of
artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your
own collection of masterpieces. Create your own collect by saving
specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build your own
personalized collection (future). Comments can be added to each
image.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artist's Toolkit:
Explore line, color, shape, balance among others.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artnet is the place
to buy, sell and research fine art online. artnet Galleries is the
largest network of its kind, with over 2,200 galleries in over 250
cities worldwide, more than 166,000 artworks by over 39,000 artists
from around the globe. Other key services include artnet Magazine,
the insider's guide to the art market with daily news, reviews, and
features by renowned writers in the art community and the Price
Database.
* Web-based |
|
|
Artsonia is the
world's largest kids art museum online. It's the newest way to
celebrate creativity in the classroom and get families involved in
art education!
* Web-based * Free Membership required |
|
|
Aviary is a website
that provides free applications for creating digital art, graphic
design, and audio mixing. It is a learning, sharing, supporting and
teaching site, made up of amazing applications and an even more
amazing community of artists.
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and membership |
|
|
CBBC: Activities
around mixing and sorting colors
* Web-based |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
|
|
Fatpaint is a free
online graphic design software (desktop publishing) and webshop.
It's the only graphics application out there where page layouting,
drawing, imaging and merchandise printing tools are integrated. You
can have your graphic design, photos and artwork printed on
products.
* Web-based * Save to computer |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
|
With Let's Create: Pottery making ceramics has
never been more simple and fun! Become a true artist and create
"one of a kind" pottery items and share them with your friends!
Throw the clay on the wheel, release all your artistic talents and
take benefit of dozens of materials available in order to create
your own design! Even when you glaze and fire your very first pot
you will feel accomplished and relaxed as pottery is the best way
to relieve your everyday stress and find your inner peace. An
amazing, therapeutic and uplifting experience you can enjoy with
your family and friends! |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
* Web-based |
|
|
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
* Web-based |
|
|
PicLits.com is a
creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully
selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the
right words in the right place and the right order to capture the
essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
* Web-based |
|
|
PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
* Web-based * Download to computer |
|
|
Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
* Web-based |
|
|
Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
* Web-based |
|
|
Shape Collage: Photos
are automatically and intelligently placed using a very fast patent
pending method. Make collages in any imaginable shape/form:
rectangle, heart, circle, letters, or draw your own shape!
* Download Software * Upgrade available at additional charge |
|
|
Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
* Download to computer |
|
|
SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
* Web-based |
|
Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
* Web-based |
|
|
Tagxedo can create
visually stunning word clouds. With just one click, you can rotate
the cloud, modify its colors and font, and also alternate between
themes and shapes as you please. You can even upload your own
images and have the word cloud assume the shape of the image.
* No membership required * Save online * Web-based |
|
|
The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
* Web-based |
|
|
Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
* Web-based |
|
|
Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
* Web-based |
|
|
Wordle is a toy for
generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds
give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the
source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts,
layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are
yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them
to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
* Web-based * Cannot control shape |
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