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Art Sites
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/index.html
Art history disguised as a mystery. (4th grade to adult)
ArtEdventures!
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/play.html
ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and
students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made
their famous works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
The Art Room
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
The @rt room is designed around the idea
of "activity" centers that encourage kids to create, to learn and to explore new
ideas, places and things on their own.
Arts Edge
http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org
This comprehensive website contains lesson plans for
students studying dance, music, theater, and visual arts.
Crayons and Computers
http://members.aol.com/Sabbeth/CrayonsandComputers.html
A different art lesson each month, such as how to draw someone's
face. Carol Sabbeth provides simple step by step instructions for elementary age students.
Inside Art
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html
An art history game. Explore a painting from the inside out. (Fifth grade to
adult)
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Take a virtual tour of the world's most famous art museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/
View more than 3,500
works of art in their online collection. Visit daily for a new ArtiFact!
Picturing Books
http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/
A website about picture books. Describes the various styles and media that
children's illustrators use, showing jackets of books that exemplify those
styles.
Music Sites
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Kids
http://www.bsokids.com/kids/
Go for a backstage tour, meet the conductor, play online games, etc.
Energy in the Air: Sounds of the orchestra
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5116/
You will find lots of information about how sound is made and what it looks like when it
is recorded. There's also a lot of information on the instruments that play in the
orchestra and sound clips of the orchestra playing music. There is also an activities
section where you can see how to make some instruments.
Essentials of Music
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Biographies of over 70 composers, a music glossary with hundreds of definitions, and lots
of sound files to give you an earful of some of the most important classical music from
the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
New York Philharmonic Kidzone
http://nyphilkids.org/main.phtml
Learn about instruments of the orchestra, read about famous composers, play
games, etc.
Play Music
http://www.playmusic.org
Learn about the different instuments in the orchestra and hear them play.
San Francisco Symphony
www.sfskids.org
Learn about instruments, compose a tune, or learn about the basics of tempo,
pitch, harmony, and rhythm by playing games.
