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Activity of the Month - Dr. Jean
Grades
K to 1
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tag(s): crafts (90), literacy (124), poetry (192), preK (298), seasons (56), songs (47)
In the Classroom
This site is excellent for enrichment. Share this link on your teacher web page and/or in a parent newsletter for those who trying to encourage the habit of reading and handling books.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Multicultural Canada: Wayang Kulit - Lynn Copeland, Simon Fraser University
Grades
3 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): canada (23), myths and legends (43), readers theater (11), stories and storytelling (71)
In the Classroom
In language arts classes, students study universal stories and myths while discovering Indonesian culture and shadow puppetry. Dramatize the elements of good versus evil, characterization, and plot. Discover a unique twist to Readers' Theater. Storyboarding opportunities allow for simpler construction of a story performance, with fewer background scenery or props required. Sound and musical accompaniment can enhance the creativity of the performance. Reluctant readers through gifted learners will enjoy the flexibility and creativity of shadow puppetry.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sumo Paint 3.0 - Lauri Koutaniemi and Aaro Vaananen
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): design (77), editing (88), painting (48), photography (132)
In the Classroom
Previous experience with layer-based design software editing such as Photoshop is extremely beneficial. The "Sumo Paint Help" page provides helpful tutorials but individuals without previous training may need additional support.Challenge students to learn about the tools professional designers use today. Select and then project video help tutorials to the whole class. Before sending students off for independent practice, demonstrate how to use the image editing and painting tools on an interactive whiteboard or projector. The videos in this section link to YouTube, so systems that block YouTube access may not be able to access this. Rather than a traditional report, challenge students to write articles and create magazine covers for biographies, history or science reports using Magazine Cover Maker, reviewed here. Have students create icons for logos for websites. Have students create artwork for CD labels for portfolios or multimedia projects using CD Cover Maker, reviewed here. Post a link to Sumo Paint on your class website for student access outside of school. The beauty of this free cloud based software is that students can start a project in school, collaborate on a single image, and continue to work on it after school hours.
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Topmark Interactive Whiteboard Resources - Topmarks
Grades
K to 12tag(s): descriptive writing (43), energy (138), environment (248), forces (46), grammar (140), literacy (124), literature (213), map skills (67), maps (222), novels (33), persuasive writing (52), poetry (192), preK (298), religions (121), rhythm (22), rivers (15), seasons (56), shakespeare (98), speeches (23), spelling (93), water cycle (25), weather (169)
In the Classroom
Use activities offered on the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector either as a whole class activity or use your whiteboard as one of the learning centers in your class. Share with parents on your blog or classroom newsletter as a resource for practice at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Deviant Art Muro - Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, and Angelo Shift
Grades
9 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): design (77), drawing (55), graphic design (48), painting (48), photography (132)
In the Classroom
Some previous experience with layer base design software editing is beneficial but not completely necessary. The DeviantART muro drawing tools have a higher level of sophistication, and yet are intuitive to use. There are filters and layering options within the free version. It is possible to import photographs or scanned images into various layers. Save individual files or export student work as a web page. Unfortunately, the export process does not result in a useful file format. Consider having students take a screen shot of their work instead. Clicking the devaintART logo will take students to the public art space. Here the general public has the ability to submit imagery. Although students will not be able to comment or post without an account, they can view submissions easily.Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects. The mural format lends itself to the drafting of school murals or stage backdrops. Consider using this long online drawing space to tell visual stories or map out a character's or historical figure's journey through time. Post a link on your class website to DeviantART muro for access outside of school.
Although users can access the muro creator without signing up for an account, high school students may want to participate in the deviantARTs free social networking site. This may be the personal learning network for juniors and seniors in high school considering a career in the arts are looking for. Students age 16 and older will benefit from an online profile account where they can create personal galleries, develop fans, and find collaborators for projects from across the globe. High school students considering jobs in graphic design, animation, film, illustration, or computer arts can build a professional portfolio to submit to employers, art schools, or potential clients. Users will also benefit from the deviantART critique section that provides constructive criticism from viewers beyond their immediate brick and mortar school. Students will need to create an account in order to use these services. If your students submit their own content (according to school policies, of course), take the time to teach safe ways to submit, commentary etiquette, and the potential for cruelty or rude behavior by anonymous viewers. You may want to monitor the discussion boards for a week or two before deciding if they are appropriate for your school situation.
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Learning to Give - Points of Light Institute
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K to 12tag(s): african american (120), animal homes (51), animals (267), charactered (77), charts and graphs (193), colonial america (96), communities (37), data (199), diversity (53), ecology (116), environment (248), heroes (23), money (113), recycling (45)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a resource for all subject matters, search for subject and browse resources. Share with other teachers in your building or district including teachers of the arts. Get your students involved! Challenge cooperative learning groups to create a multimedia presentation using one of many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here discussing one of the topics at this site. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): Canva Infographic Maker, Lucidpress, Powtoon, and MoocNote.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Victorian Christmas - TeachersFirst
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Save this site as a favorite on your desktop and use it to add supplementary activities to your classroom before Winter Break. Many of the sites can be used as webquests, classroom activities or Learning centers. This could be a great way to mix the holidays into content, comparing today's celebrations to those of the 19th century.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Make a Victorian Cornucopia - TeachersFirst
Grades
3 to 10In the Classroom
Try this easy activity during a Christmas 'Round the World unit or as part of a study of the Victorian Era. Have students take digital pictures of the steps and include them on your class web page or wiki (with captions!) so others can try the activity at home. Older students could enhance their learning by posting the photos with and explanation using a portfolio tool such as Seesaw. Seesaw also offers tools for incorporating blogs. Alternatively, students could transform their learning by annotating images taken of their activities with text, URL's, or videos using ThingLink. Make cornucopias as gifts for a visit to a local nursing home or children's home so the activity becomes a service project.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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A Victorian Christmas - Malcolm Warrington
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Use this website during a unit on Christmas or Victorian history. Enhance learning and allow ENL/ELL students to try using Text to Speech Reader, reviewed here, which will allow these students to follow the highlighted text as the article or passage is read to them. Consider extending learning by having students create their own online Victorian "albums" using a tool such as Smilebox, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Visit Wright's Historical Sites - Frank Lloyd Trust
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): architecture (81)
In the Classroom
Use the biography on this site as an interactive learning center during a lesson on the famous architect. Divide students into cooperative learning groups, allowing them to all view and analyze the presentation concerning his life. To assess student learning, have students create and share their own concept maps showing what they have learned. Use a tool such as bubbl.us, reviewed here, to create and share the concept maps.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
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9 to 12tag(s): architecture (81)
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Diego Rivera Web Museum
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): painting (48)
In the Classroom
Introduce Diego Rivera to students using this website. Use the menu across the top of the main page to find a Biography, Sketches, Murals, and more. Encourage your students to create inspired works. Create a multimedia presentation on Rivera's art using one of many TeachersFirst Edge tools. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): Visme, Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, and FlexClip, reviewed here. Use this site as an example for creating projects for other artists, mathematicians, or scientists. Post a link for this site on your class website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): asia (135), egypt (59), greece (46), museums (52), rome (35)
In the Classroom
Introduce the class to the areas to explore on your whiteboard or with a projector. Allow small groups to choose which resource they would like to learn more about, with a culminating activity of creating a multimedia presentation using a tool like Genially, reviewed here where students have a choice of presentation formats.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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San Diego Museum of Art - Collections - San Diego Museum
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Use this website on an interactive whiteboard or projector as an accompaniment for a history lesson. Look up a history topic your class is working on, and show them the images on the interactive whiteboard or projector to show how art reflects upon society. List the site on your teacher web page to allow students to access it in and out of the classroom, as it can also be used for a good starting point for history research papers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Cave of Lascaux
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4 to 12tag(s): painting (48)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a learning center or station during a unit on archaeology or a unit on the emergence of neanderthals in Europe. Have students complete the activity in cooperative learning groups. Then, exchange pen and paper and have students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Telegra.ph reviewed here. With Telegra.ph you just click on an icon to upload images from your computer, add a YouTube or Vimeo, or X (formerly Twitter) links. This blog creator requires no registration. If you are teaching younger students and looking for an easy way to integrate technology and check for understanding, replace pencil and paper and challenge your students to create a blog using Edublog reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Art History Resources on the Web
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9 to 12tag(s): 20th century (168), art history (103)
In the Classroom
Although the site is slightly difficult to navigate, the images provided and their brief bios are extremely helpful! Use this site to supplement any lesson on history, as the images can provide context for students. Share the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Islamic Belief Made Visual: Geometry and Islam - Ask Asia
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9 to 12tag(s): geometric shapes (151), religions (121)
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Take advantage of the free lesson plan and use it on a unit concerning Geometry in the world around us. The lesson plan is a different way for students to recognize geometric patterns in the world around them. Use the interactive whiteboard or projector to show some of the sample images and essays provided by the site on the topic before allowing students to create their own designs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kinder Art
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1 to 8tag(s): crafts (90)
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Attitudes Toward Nature in Taoist Art - Ask Asia
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): asia (135)
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Students can use 2 and 3 Circle Interactive Venn Diagrams by Class Tools, reviewed here to compare and contrast Daoist attitudes with Chinese attitudes. Students can use Stormboard, reviewed here to share impressions and perception of art.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston
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5 to 12tag(s): art history (103), artists (92), museums (52)
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Share this site with students and allow them time to explore on their own. Ask them to find artwork that interests them as a starting point for a period of time or as a starting point to research more of the artist's work. Have students share their work in an online book using Book Creator, reviewed here and include images, film, audio and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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