EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12
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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ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: What Is the Story of the Word Problem? [Pdf]
This lesson will assist students in visualizing and solving situations presented in word problems.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Islam and Islamic Art
A dictionary entry for Islam and Islamic art with numerous illustrations of representative works in all media, including architecture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and manuscripts. Includes useful cross-references to related terms and...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Photography Word Bank [Pdf]
Twenty-three words are included in this photography vocabulary word bank. Most terms are relevant to both photography and other forms of visual art.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Magic Rocks [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships....
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, young scholars will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dante's Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art
Because of Dante's image-driven descriptions in "Divine Comedy", many artists have sought to illustrate his text through a wide variety of media. This essay will look at two outstanding examples of how Dante's words fed the creative...
Other
Artbox Gallery of Children's Art
A gallery of artwork created by Masha Averina, a young Russian artist who works principally in gouache and watercolor. Some images are accompanied by excerpts from the literary sources that inspired the work, making this an excellent...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dinosaur's Eggs: High Frequency Words
Choose from a list of high frequency words then listen to the word and choose the correct egg that spells that same word. When finished, receive a certificate with words you know well and others you need to work on. Perfect practice for...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Art History Glossary and Terms for Kids
This site contains the terms used for art history in this glossary. Artistic definitions and words for children can be found here.
Other
Tagxedo
Tagxedo is a tool for making word clouds for visual displays and graphic use. Students insert a piece of text and the words are laid out to form a shape. A Tagxedo can also be created by pulling text in from a website, Twitter handle,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Poet Who Painted With His Words
Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespeare and Whitman are instantly recognizable. However, there's an early 20th century great poet whose name you may not know: Guillaume Apollinaire. Genevieve Emy...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Film and Television Word Bank [Pdf]
A glossary of special terms, such as camera angle and wide shot, used in the production of films and television programs.
Arizona State University
Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Arizona State University
Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Fantastic Pictures
Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Learners have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.
Martin Lawrence Galleries
Martin Lawrence Galleries: Robert Deyber
Audiences of all ages will love the humor in the artwork of Robert Deyber. Most of his paintings are funny interpretations of famous phrases. In a way, he creates a visual play on words.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Season Mandala
In this lesson, Have You Seen Trees?, a book written by Joanne Oppenheim, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, a book written by Gail Gibbons, are used as mentor texts. As a post-reading activity, students will record facts about the...
Crayola
Crayola: The Power to Change
Is a picture worth a thousand words? Use art to make a point with a political cartoon.
Other
Literature Circles: Lesson Plans and More
What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Diagraph Sh
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will recognize the sh diagraph sound in words. They will also be able to visually recognize the sh diagraph and to create words.