V. TEACHING IDEAS, LESSONS AND CURRICULUM MATERIALS
The Arts
Recommended:
Arts of Asia
An impressive collection of online galleries and exhibitions, as well as articles, that can serve as valuable resources for teachers of Asian arts.
Visual Arts Online Workshops
This excellent and engaging site contains online workshops covering all the disciplines under the visual arts umbrella. Students of all ages can follow through a series of exercises and activities to develop skills and understanding. Includes teacher notes and student printouts.
Other Useful Sites:
The Art of Crime Detection
This is an engaging, downloadable activity for middle school students that contrasts the different functions of the left and right sides of the brain, and the looks at the difference between visual and linguistic language systems.
New York Times Lesson Plans: Fine Arts
These lessons incorporate material form the New York Times, and cover a range of arts-related topics, from painting to handicrafts to music. The site offers a broad range of related activities and research options.
Seattle Art Museum (SAM): School and Educator Programs
This webpage introduces you to many SAM sites which have online art tours and interactive games, lesson plans and art activities, background information and discussion ideas, and glossaries, bibliographies, Web links, and more!
A Lifetime of Color
This website offers useful resources such as lesson plans by grades (kindergarten to Grade 8); activities (which can teach the students arts techniques); Study section allows students to explore world arts and artist; and interactive games available in the Play section. Very colourful, and targeted audience are
Music &ICT
This site links to number of websites which contains lesson plans, activities, students worksheets etc.