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With year-end just around the corner, these sites offer an opportunity for
students to stretch their artistic wings during those last few days of school.
For these and more literacy links, visit NetWatch online at www.oct.ca.
For past editions of NetWatch and additional sites for most topics can be found online at Archives.
by Lynda Scarrow |
Drawing on the arts
Arts Edge
 Created by the Kennedy Center, this well-designed site includes an extremely
effective lesson finder that lets you search through 225 visual art projects
by grade. Detailed, thorough lesson plans are cross-referenced with other subject
areas and include well-chosen resources links. The depth of the projects is
refreshing.
Incredible@rt Department
As soon as you see the home page, you know that this site is chock full
of art resources. Originally created by Indianapolis art teacher Ken Rohrer
to showcase the work of his students, it now offers hundreds of teacher-submitted
lesson plans, a gallery of student work and numerous links to online activities
and resources. See Community for teacher art forums, mail lists
and blogs.
Larry’s Toon Institute
Cartoonster
These sites are perfect for older students who like comics and cartoons
and want to create their own. Lessons describe how animation works and provide
instructions for creating a flip book
Cybermuse
The National Gallery of Canada has a wonderful children’s section
with online Artissimo games. I particularly like Colour Palette where kids
can choose a classical image and then colour it with the online paint brush – mixing
paints to create tertiary colours and comparing their version to the original.
Artsonia
Four Ontario schools are represented among the top-ranked on this, the largest
online student art museum. With more than four million art projects, this is
a wonderful repository for the artistic spirit of our youth. Friends and family
can view the artwork and leave comments for the artist. It includes thousands
of teacher-submitted lesson plans under Teachers. Registration is free.
Art Attack
Making art fun is the main goal of Britain’s Art Attack. Taken from the popular TV show and short art spots, Brian Buchanan’s
projects are created from common everyday items. There are more than 120 projects
on the site, which has an imaginative and quirky design.
additional Resources
A Lifetime of Color
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/
A Pintura – Art Detective
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
Arts & Crafts for Kids – Amazing Moms.com
http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/kidsart.htm
Art for Kids
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/for-kids.htm
Art Junction
http://www.artjunction.org/
Balloon Tales
http://www.balloontales.com/index.html
National Design Museum
http://www.educatorresourcecenter.org/view_lesson_plans.aspx
Drawing/Sketching
http://drawsketch.about.com/
FunDoodle.com
http://www.fundoodle.com/index.asp
Global Children’s Art Gallery
http://www.naturalchild.com/gallery/
Michael Austin’s Art Sites for Kids
http://www.geocities.com/theartkids/
Teaching Ideas
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/art/contents.htm
YouthLearn Multimedia Projects
http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/multimedia/index.asp
Lynda Scarrow is the College's web
editor. She can be reached at lscarrow@oct.ca.
For French sites visit www.oeeo.ca.
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