South Amherst Middle School Library

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700-799 The Arts

 

Art Education| Galleries & Museums | Architecture |Drawing |Painting| Photography | Music | Recreation | Movies & Television | Sports

700s: Arts: General Resources

707: Art Education

At A. Pintura, Art Detective you can solve an art mystery as well as learn about six famous artists in this interactive mystery.
Art Babble
Art Babble is a video website designed and maintained by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The purpose of Art Babble is to provide a place for people to learn about the creation of art, artists, and collections through quality video productions. Visitors to Art Babble will find videos related to many forms of and formats for art. Browse the video channels and you'll find videos covering a wide array of topics including abstract art, European Art and Design, African Art, graphic design, glass, sculpture, surrealism, and much more.
You'll find an alphabetical list of artists, galleries for exhibitions of specific artists, as well as time periods at The Artchive.
Click on your favorite Top 30 Artist and find links to several online exhibits at Artcyclopedia.
ArtLex is a dictionary of visual art containing more than 3,300 terms with pronunciation, images, diagrams, quotations, and links to additional resources.
Search for artists to view a brief biography and art work at the Getty Museum.
Located in Paris, The Louvre art museum is one of the oldest museums in the world. View Quick Time movies that let you walk around the museum and visit its most famous masterpieces.
Museum of Online Museums

MOOM, the Museum of Online Museums, is a list of museums that offer online exhibitions. In some cases the museums include virtual tours and in other cases the museums online exhibits are simple photo galleries. Some of the notable museums featured in the Museum of Online Museums include the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Smart History
Smarthistory is a free online alternative to expensive art history textbooks. It was developed by art history professors Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Smarthistory features more than just images of notable works of art. It includes videos lessons, VoiceThread lessons, and audio lessons about eras and themes in art history
Totally Tessellated combines the beauty and intrigue of art and mathematics. Tessellations are repeating patterns of interlocking shapes.
World Wide Art Resources

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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708: Art Galleries and Museums

Art Access examines objectives from various areas of the Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection to enrich visitors' understand of their content, style, and historical context. Included are a variety of online resources of special interest to educators, parents, students, and young people.
A history of origami can be found at Exploring Origami including links to sites on creating paper airplanes.
Click on Collections and visit each floor for paintings, sculptures, and photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art offers a sizable collection of online resources for teaching art lessons. Part of that collection is a series of lesson plans, but there are also collections of art for students, an art game for young (5-8 years old) students, interactive activities for older students, and podcasts about art and artists.
The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.
View the fascinating African collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
View the wonderful exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum including activities for children.
Tate Gallery

The Tate Gallery is one of Britain’s premier art museums and a showcase for British art as well as international modern art.

Explore the Web Museum by choosing an artist or by browsing the Themes Index.

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720s: Architecture

Architect Studio 3D
Architect Studio 3D is an interactive site that encourages critical thinking through exploration of architectural concepts and design principals.
 
Building Big
Learn about engineering through an interactive engineering lab at Building Big.
 
The Frank Lloyd Wright site offers lots of information about this famous American architect including drawings and blueprints.

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740s: Drawing & Decorative Arts

 
Art Recipes
Find recipes to make play dough, flubber, dye, fake snow, goop, as well as links to other play recipes at Art Recipes.
 
Art Supply Recipes
Art Supply Recipes provides recipes from making paper mache paste to clay recipes, bubble recipes and paint recipes.
  Artist's Toolkit

The Artist’s Toolkit lets you explore the tools visual artists use - like line, color, and balance - to create visual art.

Bitstrips

Bitstrip is an online comic strip, made by you.

Create Your Comic

Super Hero Squad, Create Your Comic, using Marvel Comic Characters is pretty unbelievable. Students can make a comic anywhere from one page to twenty two pages long. No accounts are needed. You simply log on and start creating. You have the option of saving to a PDF or printing directly from the site.

 

Over 13 episodes of Design Squad, eight high school contestants tackle engineering challenges for an actual client—from building a machine that makes pancakes to a "summer sled" for LL Bean. In the final episode, the top two scorers battle for the Grand Prize—a $10,000 college scholarship from the Intel® Foundation.

Make Beliefs Comix
Make Beliefs Comix allows you to create your own comic strips.
  Pixton
Pixton is the world’s best online comic-making software

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750s: Painting

Art Net

Art on the Net is a collective of artists from around the world that share their work on the World Wide Web.

The Artchive
Research information on artists from around the world at The Artchive.
Art Ed Net

Arts Ed Net is a national collaborative project for educators interested in Visual Arts and how to use the Internet in the classroom. Images can be sorted by title, artist and date. Lesson plans and curriculum are included.

Cave of Lascaux
At the Cave of Lascaux you can discover and learn all about the art in this prehistoric cave located in France.
Georgia O'Keeffe
The life and works of Georgia O'Keeffe are presented as a tour on this site.
Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope is the applet that makes it easy for anyone to be a painter.  Just drag the mouse and watch what happens.

Yahoo: Links to Master Artists
At Yahoo: Links to Master Artists you can find a list of links to over 2,000 master artists arranged in alphabetical order.

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770s: Photography & Photographs

Photo of the Day
Photo of the Day from National Geographic presents a new photo each day from their vast collection.

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780s: Music

Dictionary of Composers and their Music
Find short biographies of famous classical composers with a listing of their compositions on the Dictionary of Composers and their Music site.
Electronic Music Interactive
Electronic Music Interactive is a multimedia primer for electronic music that prepares students for more advanced study.
Freeplay Music
Freeplay Music provides royalty-free downloads of background music for "educational, non-commercial use (limited to student use on school grounds for in classroom projects-non broadcast)"
Incompetec.com
You can find royalty free music collections at Incompetec.com.
Incredibox

Incredibox is a neat website that allows you to create unique rhythms and sounds from drag-and-drop menu. The sounds in the menus are recordings of a Bobby McFerrin-like artist making "human beat box" sounds. You can experiment with different sound loops, choruses, and instrumental sounds to create your own unique sound loops. To use Incredibox just head over to the website, select the English or French version, then start mixing sounds by dragging from the menu to the website, select the English or French version, then start mixing sounds by dragging from the menu to the "people field." Every time you add a new sound a new person appears in the screen. Click a person to delete the sound he represents.

Jazz Kids
At Jazz Kids you can investigate the world of jazz through a timeline, biographies of jazz stars, and musical games.
Mfiles

My Files is owned and maintained by Jim Paterson, a classical and film music enthusiast living in Scotland. Each month, he features ten classical composers and sheet music for the various instruments of selected classical or film scores.

New York Philharmonic Kidzone!
The New York Philharmonic Kidzone is a great interactive site for kids about orchestral music.
San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony's website Keeping Score is a comprehensive website full of educational materials about composers, scores, musical techniques, and symphonies. There are two elements of Keeping Score that should be of particular interest to educators. The most immediately accessible section of Keeping Score is the interactive education elements that contain videos, images, and texts that tell the stories of composers. The interactive section also features explanations of musical techniques, the history of notable events and themes in the symphonic world, and analysis of various scores.

Smithsonian Jazz
Smithsonian Jazz is a fantastic site to listen and to learn all about jazz.

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790s: Recreation and Performing Arts

791.4: Motion Pictures, Radio, Television

Classic TV is your source for Television information.
Find anything you want to know about every movie ever made on the Internet Movie Database.

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793: Games

Yahoo Games
Yahoo Games offers all types of games for you to play

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796: Sports

Ancient & Modern Olympic Sports
Take a tour of ancient Olympia today or discover the differences between ancient and modern day games at the Ancient & Modern Olympic Sports site.
Ballparks
Ballparks lets you visit the homes for baseball, basketball, football, and hockey teams, as well as Olympic stadiums and racing tracks.
Baseball
This is the official site of Major League Baseball.
Basketball
This is the official site of the National Basketball Association.
College Football Hall of Fame

The College Football Hall of Fame is designed to put you in the middle of all the action. From your first step onto the Gridiron Plaza, to the moment you exit through our unique gift shop, you'll see the sport from every possible angle.

Football
This is the official site of the National Football League.
Golf
This is the official site of the Professional Golf Association.
Hockey Hall of Fame
Here you can take a virtual tour and see online exhibits dealing with the Hockey Hall of Fame.
MLB Kids' Dugout
MLB Kids' Dugout is the major league baseball site for kids.
NSCAR
This is the official site of NSCAR.
Soccer
This is the official site of FIFA.
Sports Rules
Sports Rules is "intended to be a concise reference guide, containing easy to understand explanations of the rules and guidelines of many sports."

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Updated: January 3, 2012