Arts Resources for Teachers and Students

• Lesson Plans
• Resources

 The Ontario Curriculum: Grades 1-8 - includes the curriculum for Visual Arts, Drama and Dance, and Music.

 National Gallery of Art on-line activities for kids. Explore art gardens and works of art.

Sculpture Garden: Works of Art- includes biographies and explanations of artwork.

Lesson plans to view and print. No need to register now to access the art lessons.

• Art lessons, on-line demonstrations and activities complement the visual arts curriculum. Explore the four sections of the site to find useful teaching ideas. Be sure to play the ArtEdventures! Included are art terms explained with examples and glossary.
  • Play ArtAdventures: interactive games 
    topics include: architecture, line & shape, chromatic shades, colour, portraits, art history. Many lesson plans are included.
  • Lesson Plans K-8 - click on link at bottom of page fo printer friendly lessons.
  • Lesson Plans by Subject
  • Art Actvities

An interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism. Meet the Stars in door 201, watch the videos in door 202 and then visit the lab in door 203 to complete online activities.

On-line experiments and explanations of colour, hue, saturation, brightness, rainbows, prisms, mixing colours, filters and dyes, light, human eye.
Level: Junior, Intermediate

Interesting research topics about color include: color and the brain, color and the body, color and vision, color and Design - Art, color and science, color and the world, color and computers. Have a look at color travels.

• What is Color? - on-line interactive descriptions of color

Art lessons - drawing, painting and design.

• Site Map
• Art Lessons - Egyptian Arts, Pencil Portraits, African Masks

This site explains, in simple terms, the elements of visual design. Once you understand the Alphabet, you'll be able to "read" pictures and other works of visual art and understand why they work the way they do.
 

Learn to draw cartoons with 3D lessons. 

Don't be fooled by the name. You will find art lessons sorted by topic for all grades.

• Drawing - use the menu on the right to select from categories.
• Perspective

An interactive site that instructs you to draw one-point perspective.

An on-line lesson that steps you through drawing perspective in your drawings and paintings.

An on-line PowerPoint presentation that steps you though drawing a barn.

Step-by-step instructions to draw some animals of the desert, rainforest, ocean, and the grasslands.

Museum of Modern Art:  An exploration of animals and art. Here you can create your own animals on the computer. 

On-line art lessons of: pencil, pen& ink, colour pencil, perspective, 

Lesson plan on the evaluation of works of the great artists.  Art gallery links are provided.

Read and interact on-line to learn about  the printing processes of : woodcuts, etching, lithography, and screenprinting.
(Flash 5 plug-in is required for this on-line project  - download Macromedia Flash if needed)

A superb collection of art lessons and links to galleries and artists.

• Elementary Art Lessons
  http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/elemlessons.html
  Art Lessons- Try, Painting on Foil.

Lesson plans with student worksheets.

Lesson plan for viewing art work. Included is a list of Descriptive Words to Use in a Formal Analysis of Art.

Sample on-line art lessons from Harcourt School Publishing for grades 1-5. Select a grade and then choose from a list of activities.

• Lesson plans sorted by grade and alphabetical listing of topics and grade.
• List of all Getty Curriculum
• Images of artwork

• Class Discussion: What is Art?
• Curriculum Ideas
• Family Art Night
  • Family Art Night Planning Guide - printable format

• Activities, Games, Projects, Free Lesson Plans
• Art Project Plans
• Ten Top Art Ideas
• KidsArt USA Map - Art Projects from museums around the USA
• The Tech Make a Splash with Color
  http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/color/contents/
  On-line experiments and explanations of colour, hue, saturation, brightness, rainbows, prisms, mixing colours, filters and dyes, light, human eye.
  Level: Junior, Intermediate

 Includes the work and history of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.

Biographies and their work displayed.

A superb site that compliments the A&E/Biography telecast of "The Impressionists". However, this site can be used without the video.

• Biographies of Degas, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Bazille, Cassatt, Manet, And Sisley.
• Explore Impressionism with Degas, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir. 
• Teacher's Guide pdf file (6 pages), critical viewing questions
• Impressionism Quiz
• History.com Encyclopedia 

Teach  Impressionism Includes extensive printable lesson plans. Click on Experience Impressionism for an on-line guided tour through France and explore the interesting concepts that defined the Impressionism art movement.  Click on the graphic in the lower left hand corner to see a site map and you will also find links to The Paintings and Artist Biographies.

View Monet's masterpieces on-line and read Monet's biography.

Explore the site and learn about this fascinating scientist, inventor, and artist.

• Inventor's Workshop
• Leonardo's Perspective
• Leonardo - Right to Left
• Renaissance Italy
• Additional Resources

Colouring pages and on-line colouring of French, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and U.S. artists.

On-line resources are examined and lesson plans provided for:

• Ancient Indian Art of the Americas
• African American art
• Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
• Modern and Contemporary Art
• American Art of 1900

Choose artists by alphabetical index, time frame and nationality.
Level: Junior, Intermediate

Test your knowledge about the post-impressionist artist, Van Gogh.
Level: Junior, Intermediate

Historical People painting with Wikipedia links and mouseover tagging.
 

His paintings, biographies, correspondence.

Background information about the artist, art techniques, and sample pictures can be found here.

 A reference site for the works of Vincent Van Gogh, a post-impressinaist painter. Links to his paintings, drawings, watercolors, sketches, graphic works, self-portraits, gloral paintings, his biography and more...