Lesson Planning

Teachers' Guide to American Art

http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/part1.html

This is a nice site that provides lesson plans designed to help students become familiar with commonly used art terms and learn to look for signs of history and culture in works of art.

Impressions Of The Past: A Classroom Activity By Carol Carlson

http://melbourne.uwlax.edu/uwl/mvac/arched/nov96les.htm

This exercise is a culminating activity incorporating Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, and Art that will help students develop their comprehension, knowledge, drawing inferences, and synthesis skills.

Sanford and a Lifetime of Color: Teach Art

http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/

Lesson plans, technique demonstrations, hands-on activities, and other K-12 teacher and student art resources beginning with color theory are found here.

Art on Air for Teachers

http://www.ket.org/artonair/teachers/lessonplans.htm

Art On-Air, the television series, is a lively set of arts lessons for upper elementary students. This Art On-Air Web site is designed for teachers and students interested in:

meeting the artists and seeing their work
learning more about what it means to be an artist
seeing the artwork of other students and sharing their own artworks in the Student Gallery
visiting art museums and other arts resources on the Web
and, for teachers, finding resources that will help you provide your students with enriching experiences in the visual arts.

ArtsEdNet: Lesson Plans & Curriculum Ideas

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/index.html

This website includes a variety of teaching and learning materials, including many art images. Everything is sorted alphabetically or by grade level.

Instructional Technology Department of Davis School District

A collection of brief annotated links.

http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/it/resources.html

The teacher resources here are catalogued by:

curriculum
internet resources
training.

The "Internet Resources" list of links is especially rich with ideas for teachers.

Laptop Learning Challenge: Teaching Science, Math, and Technology with Laptops

http://www.nsta.org/programs/laptop/grade.htm

The Toshiba/NSTA Laptop Learning Challenge rewarded K-12 educators for their innovative uses of laptop computers. The 20 selected lessons have science, mathematics, and technology components and take place in the classroom, in the field, or in informal science institutions. There are five lessons in each of four categories: Elementary Level, Middle Level, High School Level, and Informal Science (grades K-12).

Columbia Education Center's Mini Lessons

http://youth.net/cec/

Here you�ll see a list of lessons and lesson plans from the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshops. "They were done by a consortium of teachers from 14 states dedicated to improving the quality of education in the rural, western, United States, particularly the quality of math and science education."

TrackStar

http://trackstar.scrtec.org

"TrackStar is an on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessons. The list of resources acts like a table of contents and remains visible throughout the lesson allowing the user/student to easily browse through the lesson and stay on track." This site holds a huge number of lesson plans and materials to use in classrooms for all levels and for a wide variety of subjects.