Webography
Art Technique
A
Guide to Building Visual Arts Lessons, the J. Paul Getty
Museum
This comprehensive Web site includes
definitions
and examples of art elements, as well as a grade-by-grade
guide
to creating lessons for the classroom. It also includes
several
CA-standards aligned lesson plans for each grade level
that focus
on the elements of art.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
List of elementary school science
lesson plans on the subject of shadows and
light.
Art
Basics, San Diego State University
The seven formal elements of art are
described
on this Web site.
ArtLex Art
Dictionary:
for Artists, Collectors, Students and Educators
Definitions for 3600 terms used in
discussing
art and visual culture with thousands of notes, cross
references,
pronunciations and quotations. Valuable and easy to use.
ArtLex
Art Dictionary
Definition of installation art with
many examples.
Center
for Contemporary Printmaking
This Web site has a glossary of
printmaking terms.
Foundations
in Art, University of Delaware
An introduction to the elements of art
that includes
images of artwork and concise explanations.
Learning
to Look at Art
Learn about the elements of art by
looking at
famous pieces of artwork. This Web site provides
background information
on the piece of artwork and descriptions of how each piece
is an
example of an art element (line, color, texture, shape,
form, space,
and value.) It also includes interactive and printable
activities
for students.
On
Printmaking
This Web site provides information
about the
history of printmaking, techniques, and basic terminology.
Recycled Art and Toy Bazaar
This Web site has images of toys
created out of recycled materials from Africa,
Asia, and the Americas.
Rutgers University
List of elementary school science lesson
plans.
Self-Portrait
Ideas
Extension of drawing self-portraits:
pillow portraits,
memory boxes, about me PowerPoint projects and more.
Vue: A
Solution to
Education’s Challenges
Visual Understanding in Education (VUE)
conducts
educational research focused on aesthetic and cognitive
development
that results from interaction with art. Based on its
findings, VUE
develops programs for schools and museums, principally
Visual Thinking
Strategies (VTS).
WannaLearn:
Education Beyond Schooling
Links to eight free instructional sites
about
using pastels.
Wikipedia
Comprehensive definition of
installation art.
