Firelands Elementary Library
Specials Subject Resources
Art | Music | Physical Education
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A. Pintura Art Detective is an interactive mystery that lets you solve an art mystery as well as learn about six famous artists. | |
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Welcome to the Alphabet of Art. 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. | |
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Art Cyclopedia lets you search over 80,000 images by 7,500 artists, browse by artist, movement, medium, nationality or name. | |
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At @art Junction you can check out art projects for the classroom, see how to "think like an artist," view art work created by children, learn about art history, review art books, and visit other art-related sites for children. | |
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Arts Web offers detailed cultural events calendar with links for arts teachers and merchandise for sale. |
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The Artist’s Toolkit lets you explore the tools visual artists use - like line, color, and balance - to create visual art. |
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Artsy Fartsy is the place to learn, play, create and shop. |
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Crayola presents this educators web site. Check out Crafts Central, the Coloring Book, Story Time, Online Art, and the Game Room. There are separate areas for preschoolers, parents, and teachers. | |
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Together with his wife, Barbara, Eric Carle, author and illustrator of more than 70 books, including the 1969 classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts. Through the exploration of images that are familiar and beloved, the museum’s goal is to foster connections between visual and verbal literacy and to provide visitors of all ages and backgrounds with the opportunity to explore their own creativity and appreciate and enjoy art of every kind. Some of these explorations are offered on the museum’s Web site: Tissue Paper Collage; Stamping with Found Objects; Trash to Treasure; Puppets & Performances; Exploring Collage; and Printmaking with Foam. |
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On The Incredible @rt Department site you will find art lessons from grades Pre K-12. It also includes the art site of the week, art news, art stuff, and more. | |
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Kaleidoscope is the applet that makes it easy for anyone to be a painter. Just drag the mouse and watch what happens. |
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Kinder Art contains the "largest collection of free art lessons on the Internet." Lessons are grouped into over fifteen categories (e.g., Bulletin Boards, Folk Art, Printmaking, etc.). Children can submit art work to be posted on "the fridge door." |
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The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. | |
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Pixton is the world’s best online comic-making software. |
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View the wonderful exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibits include activities for children. Online teacher resources are listed and the museum lends slide packets, videos, and lesson plans at no charge. | |
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The Tate Gallery is one of Britain’s premier art museums and a showcase for British art as well as international modern art. |
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World Wide Arts Resources contains professional information on art and 1000's of links. Artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques, performing arts ranging from dance to opera, classified ads, resume postings and more can be can be accessed from this site. |
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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. |
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Classics for Kids is the web presence of the radio show Classic Music for Kids on WGUC in Cincinnati. It is designed to help students learn about music and have fun too. |
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Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. |
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The Genre Sampler will take you on a tour of some of the more popular musical genres by first giving a general overview and then listing well-known musicians and a sound sample. |
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Incompetech provides royalty free music collections at this site. |
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The National Association for Music Education offers lesson plans and other features. MENC has worked to ensure that every student has access to a well-balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality program of music instruction taught by qualified teachers. |
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Patriotic Melodies is presented by The Library of Congress. It tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. |
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The Instruments of the Orchestra is produced by the San Francisco Orchestra. It provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music. Consider this site your premier web destination for learning about music. |
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The New York Philharmonic Kidzone is a place for kidsto come and learn about the New York Philharmonic and about the instruments, music, musicians and more. |
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Play Music, was produced by the League of American Orchestras. It introduces students to the instruments of the orchestra. |
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The Science of Music exhibits will let students mess around with music in ways they probably haven’t before by using ordinary objects, hands, feet and more. |
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Songs for Teaching allows creative teachers to use music to teach content across the curriculum -- to students of all ages. They offer thousands of song lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions. |
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Songs 4 Teachers.com contains more than 125 free songs and poems to use with children. |
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Balance FirstTM helps you easily navigate and implement their content within your curriculum. The guide provides five standards-based lessons that will help students understand the concept of energy balance and how to easily apply it to their own lives, as well as suggestions for incorporating the MyPyramid DVD into the classroom. |
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Cool Food Kidz is a kid-friendly website about nutrition, exercise, and general health. Cool Food Kidz provides easy-to-read lists of things they can do to take care of their health. For example, there is a list of "building healthy habits" tips which walks kids through ten basic things they can do to keep themselves healthy. Cool Food Kidz also provides students with tips for dental health and tips for keeping their brains sharp. The eating out section offers advice to students on picking a healthy lunch and healthy snack foods. |
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Nourish Interactive is a great resource for elementary school health and nutrition teachers. Nourish Interactive offers lesson plans, printable guides and forms, resources for parents, and games for students. In the printables section teachers will find things like fun coloring pages as well as educational pages like "name the food group" and "exercise tracking sheets." The parents' section of Nourish Interactive offers parents tips on teaching healthy eating habits at home. The parents' section also offers tips and recipes for cooking healthy food with kids. The games section contains ten online games for elementary school students. The games are designed to reinforce the lessons learned from parents and teachers using the teaching resources on Nourish Interactive. |
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Nutrition Explorations, developed by the National Dairy Council, provides nutrition education information and resources for teachers, parents and kids. Guides, school programs and menu and games are featured. |
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P.E. Central is the premier site for health & physical education teachers, parents and students. Our goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children. |
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Physical Education Update.com is the web site for physical educators who must know a little bit about everything related to sports, health, fitness and physical education...but don't have the time to stay up-to-date! |
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This is the health, physical activity, fitness and sports information web site of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. |
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Scrub Club is a website designed to teach students why they need to wash their hands. The Scrub Club offers videos, comics, and games designed to promote healthy hygiene habits to prevent the spread of diseases like the flu. For teachers, Scrub Club offers free downloads of posters, cartoon books, and lesson plans to promote hand washing. The downloads are available in English, Spanish, and French. |
| Sports Rules is intended to be a concise reference guide, containing easy to understand explanations of the rules and guidelines of many sports. |
Updated: February 14, 2012
