Curated OER
Spider Webs
Students create spider webs. In this spider webs lesson, students research various types of spider webs then write a report about a spider of their choice. Students also make their own web similar to an orb spider.
Curated OER
Informational Writing-Creating a Speaker's Voice
Fifth graders study speaker's voice in informational writing. In this writing lesson, 5th graders discuss the difference between an interesting non-fiction excert and a reference non-fiction excerpt.
Curated OER
The Solar System
Students research the characteristics of planets in our solar system. In this space science lesson, students create a solar system model with each planet arranged according to their distance from the sun. They solve problems using the...
Curated OER
Social Studies
Third graders explore maps and models. They discuss communities and the buildings within their community. Students construct a model of the downtown area of their town. They construct a map of their town and write facts about the...
Curated OER
Upcycled Garment or Art Work
Students explain the importance of recycling waste products. In this art lesson plan, students research different upcycled fashion designs and accessories. They design their own product and present it in class.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Computer Generated 'Rembrandt' Painting Unveiled
Read about a computer produced piece of art that was designed to mimic that work of a famous artist. Includes video.
Other
Danger Rangers: Danger Games: Paint!
Use your creative side while painting these Danger Rangers. Choose the Ranger you want to paint and then pick the colors from a variety of paint offered.
Other
Computer Art Using Ms Paint
A site by Diana Hunter, an educator in Indiana. This site uses common software in PCs to introduce the use of computers in making art. There are lessons on design, Tessellations, Butterflies, Piet Mondrian, Landscapes with Spraypaint,...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Paint Box
This isn't your typical paint program. Cool buttons let players vary brush stroke size, color, and transparency and then let them animate, or warp, their drawings.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Plas Tic
This is a multimedia educational resource. Some of the topics are: volume and space, computer imaging, techniques for drawing and painting and proportion and scale in art. It is divided into four different levels.
ACT360 Media
Act Den: The Graffiti Wall Lesson Plan
Paint Shop Pro offers a wide-variety of paint tools to create unique graphic images. This lesson plan allows learners to explore the paint tools and create their own graffiti masterpiece.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Art Zone
Ten interactive activities that allow you to use the computer to create and manipulate works of art.
PBS
Moche Death Art
Horrific photographs (some computer enhanced) of walls in Moche Temple of the Moon reveal striking similarities to dismembered skeletal remains found nearby. Check link to Gallery to find nine photographs. Video discussion of why humans...
Other
Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers: Computing Ideas
A great resource to discover fun new computer activities to bring to your classroom.
Curated OER
Tux Paint
Install a simple to use paint program onto your classroom computers for FREE! You can read reviews of the product before downloading, see sample art products, and view video of how Tux Paint works.
ACT360 Media
Act Den: Graphics Den
If you have Paint Shop Pro on your computer you can follow these tutorials offered by Graphics Den to learn new ways of making graphic art. After your work is completed you can submit it to the online gallery.
Other
My Data = My Mondrian
Take a minute and fill out the short questionaire about yourself. The computer converts your data into a personalized painting-- Mondrian style. Everyone will want to try this again and again!
ACT360 Media
Act Den (Digital Education Network) Software Tutorials
Free online tutorials for computer software, including FrontPage, Office, PowerPoint, and Outlook Express are generously offered at this website. Students will find it easy to follow Agent Max Millennium as he guides them through...
National Library of France
National Library of France: Heaven and Earth
Learn how art through the ages has been influenced by the Earth and the heavens. See paintings that attempted to explain the Earth's creation from a scientific standpoint, sacred architecture that provided a place to worship the heavens,...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Art Activities and Learning Centers
This page has suggestions for activities requiring minimal preparation that students can do after completing regular assignments, as well as some links to more challenging activities, e.g., reviewing paintings of Saint Nicholas, Saint...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pet Tech: Animal Training
Research color awareness in animals. Design a set of experiments to determine if animals see colors by using a computer-based paint program to create specific color characteristics, based on their "gray values".
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Things to Do at Home
Families can come together through games designed to make history something fun and integral to family life. Build a sod house like prairie settlers did in the 1800s. Go back in time to visit five families that lived in the same house...
Discovering Egypt
Discovering Egypt: Pyramids and Temples
This interactive site creates a computer-generated reconstruction of Egyptian pyramids and temples. View pyramid floor plans, paintings, drawings, and photos.
Other
Calimero
A great site that allows young students to play with the computer and create postcards, read jokes and other stories and print out the alphabet or table decorations to color manually or import into a paint program to color with the...