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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore visual art during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive timeline of art history which can be searched either by geographical region or time period, provides viewers with a comprehensive chronological resource of genre and the art world.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia

For Students 9th - 10th
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
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BBC

Bbc: Simon Schama's Power of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
At the companion website for the BBC series "Simon Schama's Power of Art," hosted by Columbia University professor Simon Schama, find insightful analysis of eight artistic masterworks, each of which represents a turning point in history....
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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department (Iad)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Incredible Art Department website started in 1994 and has grown into a huge site with a wealth of resources on teaching art, student research, careers in art, art history, games, links to art galleries and museums around the world,...
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Ohio State University

Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The Huntington Archive is a photographic collection of Buddhist and Asian art acquired by two professors of Asian Art History at Ohio State University.
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Museum Network (UK)

Museum Network: Landscapes in Art: Explore, Learn, Inspire

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum Network presents, "Landscapes in Art: Explore, Learn, Inspire", an interactive exploration of the visual art genre, the landscape. With activities, information about the development of the landscape in painting, examples of...
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Cool Fire Technology

Brain Bank: Art Movements and Periods

For Students 9th - 10th
This website alphabetizes and briefly describes all the major movements in the history of visual arts. Good for use as a general reference for Art History studies and the study of historically based painting and art.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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National Museum of Women in the Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
The permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Images of artwork, biographies and profiles are all available, organized by century. You can search for a particular female artist as well.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of the Art Institute of Chicago, browse the full scope and focus of the museum's collections of French impressionism, photography, architectural drawing, European decorative arts, American art, textiles, African art,...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Romanticism

For Students 9th - 10th
Metropolitan Museum of Art essay detailing the history of 19th Century artistic movement, Romanticism. Accompanied by visual examples of original paintings from the era.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Art History Glossary and Terms for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the terms used for art history in this glossary. Artistic definitions and words for children can be found here.
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Kinder Art

Kinder Art: Building Klimt (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Through a creative art project, learners will review shapes and patterns like the ones used by artist Gustav Klimt, understand and apply media, techniques and processes. They will also learn the visual arts in relation to history and...
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Kinder Art

Kinder Art: Lessons: Lessons, Crafts, Printables, and More

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
KinderArt directs you to multiple kinds of resources and materials for teaching art and art history. A fun place to explore ideas for creative lesson planning.
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BBC

Bbc: Simon Schama's Power of Art: Caravaggio

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC presents the topic in this thematic exerpt from Simon Schama's popular visual art documantary "Power of Art".
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Media Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a one-minute tour through the history of media arts. Examine a variety of media forms and be a media critic. Visit the Media Studio and learn about movie soundtracks, animation, and creating a storyboard. Meet different artists as...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Childe Hassam, "Allies Day"

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes a picture of the famous painting, "Allies Day," as well as a brief description of the history behind it.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Cave Art Discovering Prehistoric Humans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
By studying cave paintings, students learn about prehistoric cultures and the stories and ideas they wished to communicate to others through art. The lesson plan presented on this website aims to show young students the significance of...
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Other

The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explores the history of film and visual arts. There is a tour, virtual exhibits, and related materials.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Early Visual Representations of the New World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that examines how Native Americans were portrayed by artists in the sixteenth century, whose aim was to convey their appearance to a European audience, and thereby encourage investment in future New World explorations. By...
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Digital History

Digital History: The Artist in American Society

For Students 9th - 10th
See how the creation of visual art in its many forms developed over the first half of the 19th century. In addition of the painters in the Hudson River School of Art, read about the beautification of natural spaces such as parks, and...
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University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame: Career Alternatives for Art Historians

For Students 9th - 10th
This vast collection provides information on careers for those with training and interest in art history, outside of the world of universities.

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