debbie oestreicher's List: Art

The J. Paul Getty Museum Education department has created this guide to help teachers and curriculum developers create successful arts-focused lessons. Included are ideas for preparing lessons, a step-by-step guide for teaching visual arts for each grade level, and ideas for evaluation and assessment approaches.

Art resources and ideas for teachers, parents, and students

Draw 3dobjects using basic, easy to learn techniques. The processes of sketching, drawing, and coloring are demonstrated in these fast, guided lessons.

Express yourself with a free online canvas.

A. Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and art composition. Highlights art concepts such as composition, style or subject. 4th grade and up.

Models of Web-based learning that regular teachers could use in their classrooms. Specific strategies for using each of the six branches of Eyes on Art are given. The activities are designed to lead in a progression.

Activities, Games, Projects and Free Lesson Plans

Tart, lessons, each children and their caregivers creative ways to recycle by making art. The lessons and activities include drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, papier-mache, marbling, and crafts.

Demonstrates how visual information is used in art. Some of the factors that are illustrated are aspects of depth perception, color perception, and form perception.

Myoats is a community where people create designs using an online drawing application. These designs can be rated, downloaded, and archived.

Music, Art and Dance resources from the Library of Congress

Gingerbread House is a part of the Highlights for Kids website. This interactive site encourages students to create their own gingerbread house complete with icing, candy, food, as well as some less traditional items. The kids can’t get enough of this site that allows them to change the size, rotate, and flip the candy and other items to fit their wishes. How to integrate Gingerbread House into the classroom: Gingerbread House is a lot of fun for kids to play with, they will ask to play and interact with this site year round. When creating a real gingerbread house is not practical in the classroom, this provides the perfect alternative. It is a great site to use in conjunction with Jan Brett’s Gingerbread Baby book. The site provides excellent practice for mouse manipulation and creativity. Set up as a holiday center or use the fun site for indoor recess fun.

Canvastic is basically a Kid Pix type program without all the “toys” it lets students draw and write without being distracted by the ability to “blow things up” or “flush” their picture. Canvastic dot NET is the FREE online version of the program. The online version doesn’t have all the bells and whistle that the software version does but it is an excellent online drawing program that lets students save their work to a flash drive or computer and print out their work. It also has a great replay button that lets them replay and watch the picture they just drew

Artsonia is the world’s largest kids’ art museum where each student in your class can have an online art gallery displaying their masterpieces for free! Artsonia is for pre-school through high-school students. Your students will develop a new sense of pride and feel like famous artists published in a museum. Friends and family members of the student can view the artwork, join fan clubs and leave personal comments for the artists. Family can purchase custom keepsakes with their child’s artwork (mugs, t-shirts, mouse pads, coasters, note cards and more). Your school will earn 15% of the purchases! Participation is completely free for teachers, students, and schools.

Teachers looking for fresh ideas for their art classes or just a fill in activity for that rainy day will find lots of help here. The lessons are grouped into two categories: Hands on Art and Computer Art. The Hands on activities include watercolor strawblowing, crayon etching, stitchery, paper mache, clay and more. Computer Art introduces children to using the computer to create such masterpieces as valentines, quilts, landscapes, tessellation and much more. Included is a computer graphics vocabulary list. The lessons are written for a variety of classroom computer setups but can be adjusted for individual situations. Each lesson has stated goals and objectives and includes vocabulary words, materials, evaluation and higher order thinking questions. Additionally, teachers will find art recipes, technology tips, clipart, handouts and templates and other useful resources.