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Curriculum & Lesson Plans Includes thematic lesson plans, activities, materials, themes and artists.
NAEA Standards. These Standards represent the professional judgment of the art education field about the characteristics of preparation programs that will enable all visual arts educators to provide high-quality art instruction for every student. This collection consists of the Professional Standards for Visual Arts Educators; National Visual Arts Standards; Standards for Art Teacher Preparation; Purposes, Principles, and Standards for School Art Programs; and Design Standards for School Art Facilities.
"25 Places for Kids to Learn and Experiment with Art"
- From Karen Schweitzer. This document contains a list of sites that teach art history and theory, sites that offer easy-to use tools for mess-free creations, and sites that provide interactive games and activities.
Art:21 Online Lesson Library 
(Seasons 1-3) is a doorway to curricular resources presenting contemporary art and artists for the classroom, hosting a wide range of thematic lesson plans for Visual and Performing Arts, Language Arts, and Social Studies curricula. Educators are encouraged to select the activities, materials, and ideas that meet their individual interests—an entire thematic unit of study, a particular hands-on project, or questions to foster dialogue. The topics provide focused ideas that cut across series themes (Place, Stories, etc.) and all of the artists featured in the broadcast. Each topic includes a range of lessons that connect current issues, ideas, and events with an exploration of the diverse perspectives of contemporary artists.
artsonia is the largest student art museum in the world! Our dream is that every child will have an online art gallery, preserving their masterpieces for all time!
ARTSEDGE—the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects. ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment. Transform your teaching with arts-integrated resources for the K-12 classroom!
For kids: A creative and cool class gift. See how NAEA member, Jim Boland, art teacher at Spoede Elementary School in St. Louis, Missouri, worked with fifth-graders to design and create memorable permanent art projects such as benches and totem poles as gifts to the school.
Developed for the Getty Education Institute for the K-12 art education community. It features lesson plans & curriculum ideas, search & index, artsednet talk and more.
From the Incredible Art Department, an art education website for art students, parents, teachers, home schoolers and administrators. See an extensive list of art lessons, news, resources, and much more.
MUSEUM RESOURCES—The following web sites are valuable resources for obtaining fine art images, as well as information about artists, themes, art styles and periods.
♦ The Web Museum ⇒ http://www.ibiblio.org/louvre/
♦ The National Gallery of Art ⇒ http://www.nga.gov/
♦ World Wide Art Resources ⇒ http://wwar.com/index.html
♦ The Philadelphia Museum of Art ⇒ http://www.philamuseum.org
♦ The Metropolitan Museum of Art ⇒ http://www.metmuseum.org/
♦ The Palmer Museum of Art ⇒ http://www.palmermuseum.psu.edu/
COLOR THEORY ⇒ http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm
LESSON PLANS:
♦ The Metropolitan Museum of Art ⇒ http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp?command=text&datascope=all&attr1=lesson+plans
♦ The National Gallery of Art (access lessons and resources by curriculum, topic, or artist) ⇒ http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom
♦ The Philadelphia Museum of Art ⇒ http://www.philamuseum.org/education/lesson_plans.html
New Horizons for Learning. You will find information on some of the best researched and the most widely implemented methods of helping all students to learn more successfully. The information includes a description of how the teaching and learning strategies work, where they have been applied, results, and where to find further information from experts in the field, books, websites, and other resources.
The New York Times: Learning Network is a free service that offers a large amount of information, especially on teaching resources. This website is aimed at students in grades 3-12, their teachers, and parents.
Developing an Arts Assessment: Some Selected Strategies--use the NAEP arts assessment and field test as a case study to explore useful strategies for developing an arts performance assessment.
Monthly Mentor
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Bob Reeker
Bob Reeker is a twenty-year veteran of education, teaching 18 years and working as a building administrator for two years. The past six years of his career have been spent at Eastridge Elementary School in Lincoln, Nebraska teaching students, K-5 in the areas of Visual Art and Integrated Technology. Bob is currently the NAEA Elementary Division Director and will end his directorship in 2011.
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