South Amherst Middle School Library

700-799 The Arts

707: Art Education

A. Pintura, Art Detective	At A. Pintura, Art Detective you can solve an art mystery as well as learn about six famous artists in this interactive mystery.
The Artchive	You'll find an alphabetical list of artists, galleries for exhibitions of specific artists, as well as time periods at The Artchive.
Artcyclopedia	Click on your favorite Top 30 Artist and find links to several online exhibits at Artcyclopedia.
ArtLex	ArtLex is a dictionary of visual art containing more than 3,300 terms with pronunciation, images, diagrams, quotations, and links to additional resources.
Getty Museum	Search for artists to view a brief biography and art work at the Getty Museum.
Louvre 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.
Timeline of Art	Click on an interactive timeline to learn about the art, the medium, and the artists from the Cave Paintings of Lascaux, to Pompeii Wall Art, to Byzantine sculpture, or surrealism on the Timeline of Art site.
Timeline of Art History	The Timeline of Art History is indexed by artist, special topics, regions, and subjects.
Totally Tessellated	Totally Tessellated combines the beauty and intrigue of art and mathematics. Tessellations are repeating patterns of interlocking shapes.

708: Art Galleries and Museums

Art Institute of Chicago	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.
Exploring Origami	A history of origami can be found at Exploring Origami including links to sites on creating paper airplanes.
Islamic Art	The Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers an explanation and view of Islamic Art by time periods.
Metropolitan Museum of Art	Click on Collections and visit each floor for paintings, sculptures, and photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
National Gallery of Art	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.
National Museum of African Art	View the fascinating African collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
Smithsonian American Art Museum	View the wonderful exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum including activities for children.
Web Museum	Explore the Web Museum by choosing an artist or by browsing the Themes Index.

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.
Frank Lloyd Wright	The Frank Lloyd Wright site offers lots of information about this famous American architect including drawings and blueprints.

Art Recipes	Find recipes to make play dough, flubber, dye, fake snow, goop, as well as links to other play recipes atArt Recipes.
Art Supply Recipes	Art Supply Recipes provides recipes from making paper mache paste to clay recipes, bubble recipes and paint recipes.
Design Squad	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.

The Artchive	Research information on artists from around the world at The Artchive.
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.
North American Prehistory	North American Prehistory lets you discover how the first Americans came across the Bering Land Bridge in Alaska, rock art, the history of American archaeology, and links to prehistory sites.
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.

Photo of the Day

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

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.
Essentials of Music	Essentials of Music contains overviews of the six main periods of music history (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century), biographies of 70 composers connected to 200 clips of music plus a glossary of 200 terms with musical examples.
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.
Jazz Kids	At Jazz Kids you can investigate the world of jazz through a timeline, biographies of jazz stars, and musical games.
New York Philharmonic Kidzone!	The New York Philharmonic Kidzone is a great interactive site for kids about orchestral music.
Smithsonian Jazz	Smithsonian Jazz is a fantastic site to listen and to learn all about jazz.

791.4: Motion Pictures, Radio, Television

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

793: Games

Yahoo Games

Yahoo Games offers all types of games for you to play

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."

Updated: April 26, 2010