Art
Colors
- Pass the Pumpkin - Color recognition game.
Art Appreciation
- Destination Modern Art - This interactive audio-visual cartoon allows students to take a virtual tour of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. They will learn about the famous works of art housed there and about the artists who created them.
- Art Institute of Chicago - Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art - Lesson plans and hands-on activities for teaching elementary and intermediate students about impressionist art.
Art Curriculum
- Art Curriculum Framework - This pdf file makes for extremely dry reading. However it contains a practical chart summarizing art curriculum strands, contents, and processes by grade levels with detailed examples of how a fictitious teacher introduces and conducts lessons based on them in his classroom.
Art Lessons
- The Artist's Toolkit: Visual Elements and Principles - Quick audio-visual cartoons that teach the basic concepts of line, edge and outline, primary and secondary colors, warm and cool colors, complementary colors, tints and shades, space, depth, positive and negative space, linear and aerial perspective, geometric and organic shapes, symmetrical and asymmetrical balance, and visual rhythm and patterns.
- Crayola Lesson Plans - Hundreds of hands-on standards-based lesson plans that integrate the arts into the daily curriculum. Search for activities by keywords or by grade level, subject, or theme.
- Elementary Art Activities - This site is eighty-percent advertising but it does contain detailed descriptions and illustrations of several useful art activities.
- Incredible Elementary Art Lessons - Detailed descriptions of art activities organized by appropriate grade levels (EC to 12).
- Scholastic Upside Down Art - Instructions for an upside down art activity that helps young artists to focus on shapes, lines, and spaces when drawing a subject. This pdf files includes a printable illustration to use as part of the lesson. The printable illustration is best suited to elementary school children but the concept and instructions can be adapted for older students.
- Teaching the Elements of Art - While this site focuses on teaching the elements of art to homeschoolers, the activities it describes can easily be conducted in the classroom. Each lesson covers one of the following elements: line, color, texture, space and mass, form, or value.