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Teaching Resources for The Arts

• Note : Individual resources are suitable for teacher use with all education levels unless specifically indicated otherwise.

1. Activity Centre
   ‘Fuel your creative side with hundreds of Free print projects offered by HP.’ These range from Calendars to Scrapbooking and beyond.
2. Activity Village
   ‘Find colouring pages, home school resources, educational resources, kids crafts, puzzles, printables, Sudoku for kids and much, much more,’ from this UK site.
   Primary
3. Architecture for Kids
   ‘Exploring architecture for kids and educators ! Profiles of famous architects, architectural history, information about significant buildings.’
   Primary, Secondary
4. Art Activities, Art Projects and Games
   [Online Art Activities for Kids]
   A collection of art activities via annotated links, and covering areas as diverse as colouring books through to mandala makers and beyond.
5. Art and Technology for Teachers
   Links including use of technology by both teacher and student. Annotated links in the centre or listed Art lessons.
6. Art Attacks
   ‘On this page you’ll find fact sheets for all the Art Attacks featured over the last few series. We’re adding fact sheets for each Art Attack in the new series every week, too. To open a fact sheet, just click on the small picture or the title to get the details. To print one off, just press the “print” button on the left.’
   Fascinating !
7. Art Department, The Incredible
   Lesson plans for varying levels, activities, art resources, rubrics, cartoons, great new links monthly, art news and more. US-centric but can be used irrespective of where you are.
8. Art Teaching
   Resources on language, lesson plans, ideas for set work, links to galleries.
9. Art History Resources On The Web
   Art history - no matter period or region - plus more on art. Deceptively simple.
   Secondary, Tertiary
10. Artists on Art
    Artists on art, artist chronologies, essays on art and artists, a gallery and more. Works through themes and artists.
    Secondary, Tertiary
11. Art Junction
    ‘A collaborative art space for teachers and students.’. Links and sections for use when planning and completing art work.
    Primary, Secondary
12. Art Movements Directory, The
    ‘A concise reference guide to the major art movements and periods’. Link to further information. Listed alphabetically and chronologically.
    Secondary, Tertiary
13. ArtsEdge Curriculum Examples Directory
    Art activities arranged alphabetically. All activities contributed by teachers for teacher use. Check the whole Kennedy ArtsEdge site.
    Primary, Secondary
14. ArtSource
    Art sites in major topics e.g. Image Collections, Art Journals Online, Libraries, Museums Online. ‘This site is intended to be selective, rather than comprehensive’.
15. Australian Sites :
• Art Education Australia
  ‘The AEA welcomes membership by art educators, researchers, students and others working in the field of or with an interest in Visual Arts Education.’ Access journals, resources, professional development, find out what’s on, search their web directory of links.
  Primary, Secondary
• Art Education Resources
  ‘A growing online resource for art students to encourage art education in Australia. This website is a gathering of free art resources for students and art teachers. Via this website we aim to support you and encourage you in developing your interest in fine art practice.’
• Art Exhibition Guide
  ‘Locate upcoming art exhibitions state by state, cross referenced with Artists and Galleries.’
• Art Forum Australia
  ‘A Free to join forum for Artists, Art Teachers & Art Students. Help, support and encourage each other.’
  Secondary, Tertiary
• ART-SEARCH Australia
  ‘Officially Australia’s largest online art search engine directory.’ A huge range of topics and sub-topics to search.
• Art & Technology
  ‘The Photography Experience’. It ‘arises from one immediate question : How can traditional art education practices, techniques and media integrate with the new technologies ?’ Information on digital v traditional photography, student and ‘leader’s’ manuals, a student film processing manual, Hyperstudio presentation on the darkroom, photographic database.
  Primary, Secondary
• Baroque On
  From the ABC. Used to develop an understanding of Baroque music by working with one piece of Handel’s music. Teacher information provided.
  Secondary
• Buzz Dance Theatre
  West Australian based dance theatre presenting workshops and performances for students.
• new !Helen O’Grady Drama Academy
  ‘Our core programmes are designed for Students from 5 to 17+. They encompass a huge body of developmental drama.’ They operate during school terms. Note that these are Fee-based and operate in most states.
• Jovian, Your Online Art Store
  ‘Proudly Australian owned and operated. We guarantee the best quality art, craft and early learning products at competitive prices and quickly delivered to your door. … We have a terrific selection of children’s craft materials for active young minds. As well as traditional artist supplies and general art and craft products.’
• Musical Competitions & ‘Spectaculars’
  Mainly Secondary
• Australian Singing Competition, The
  All the details you want.
• Croc Eisteddfod Festival [Queensland]
• Culture and Recreation Portal Website
  Rock Eisteddfod Challenge
• Joining the Chorus [Victoria]
• QUIT Tasmania — Rock Eisteddfod
• Rock Eisteddfod Challenge®
• Wakakirri
  ‘The ultimate performing and visual arts challenge for schools.’ Sections on the site for students [primary & secondary] and teachers.
• MzuriDance
  ‘Mzuri education facilitates learning and development of students’ technical and artistic ability in dance, music and performance. Mzuri has visited hundreds of primary and secondary schools over the last decade.’ Check information under ‘Services’. Based in Melbourne.
• Noteable Music Education Resources
  ‘Noteable is an Australasian company dedicated to creating and supplying top quality, great music education resources to music educators.’ Most resources are Fee-based, though several samples are Free.
• OzMusEd
  [Welcome to The Australian Music Education Resource]
  By a practising Australian educator. ‘To provide students and teachers with useful links, ideas and resources on the effective use of Technology and the Internet.’
  Secondary
16. Bill Henderson’s World of Art
    Art resources, works of famous painters, exhibits, galleries and more.
17. BRUSHster
    ‘BRUSHster is an online painting machine for all ages. This shockwave interactive includes more than forty brushes and customizable size, transparency, texture, and stroke options. A rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs help make BRUSHster a full-feature painting program.’ From the National Gallery of Art in Washington, US.
18. Dia : Chelsea
    Information on contemporary artists, publication, online exhibitions and more.
    Secondary, Tertiary
19. Drama in Education
    A variety of lesson plans grouped for school years. Done in the UK and shared amongst teachers. Each is usually available in both HTML and .pdf formats. Check to ensure year levels equate with our systems.
20. Draw Me Something
    ‘A website where you are given a random object and your task is to draw it on the online drawing board. All drawings will be saved into our gallery, where visitors can rate and comment on them.’
21. Drawing Now
    ‘The best ‘How to Draw’ tutorials on the web.’ Multiple tutorials for everyone.
22. Edsitement
    This and other humanities’ areas. Includes lesson plans, bulletin board, calendar, reference help and special topics, many geared to the US.
    Primary, Secondary
23. Family Fun
    The ‘Printables’ section of this site. As it is US based, some of the seasonal activities will be reversed, but they are quite sound.
    Primary
24. Fine Art - World Wide Arts Resources
    Sells contemporary art works but also ‘Harness the best arts information : contemporary artists and masters, museums, galleries, fine art, art history, art education, antiques, dance, theatre and more’.
    Secondary, Tertiary
25. Getty’s ArtsEdNet
    Provides for exchange of information and ideas in the area of arts education from K-12.
    Primary, Secondary
26. Indian Art Collectors
    ‘Indian Art Collectors is an online portal for all collectors and artists of Indian contemporary art to share their passion and art collection with each other.’
    Secondary
27. Joseph Woo’s Origami Page
    Resources and information on how to implement origami successfully.
    Primary, Secondary
28. K-12 Music Sources
    An extensive listing of well-annotated links to musical areas as diverse as ‘Band Director Resources’, ‘Early Music FAQ’, ‘Music Lesson Plans’ and ‘Songs4Teachers’.
29. K-12 Resources for Music Educators
    ‘Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels. Regularly updated.’ Grouped in directories for Band, Choral, Orchestra, Classroom and All Music. Some sections have a strong US bias, but there is still much for teachers around the world.
30. KinderArt - Art Lessons - Art Education
    Art lessons broken into groups, art library, Free newsletter, special sections, ‘extras’, a ‘Don’t Miss’ section. Geared to the early curriculum.
    Primary
31. LessonPlansPage - Music
    Choose lesson plans for specific school levels, view the most recent additions to the listing or find seasonal lesson plans based around music.
32. Mark Harden’s Artchive
    Artchive, theory, criticism, galleries, art links, juxtapositions, general art news.
    Secondary, Tertiary
33. Mirkwood Designs
    ‘Templates that you can use to make custom cards, envelopes, and boxes. Simply print out the image, use it as a template to cut your fine papers, and fold along dotted lines.’
    Primary
34. Music & Drama Links
    A very simple textual listing of links for these areas done by a school group in Ontario, Canada.
35. MusicBrainz
    ‘MusicBrainz is a user-maintained community music metadatabase. Music metadata is information such as the artist name, the release title, and the list of tracks that appear on a release. MusicBrainz collects this information about recordings and makes it available to the public.’
    Secondary
36. Music Hall Music Education Centre
    Five major directories providing a wealth of linked information covering ‘Music Educator’, ‘Instrumental Music’, ‘Vocal Music’, ‘World Music’ and ‘Music Styles’. Each section is then broken into further discrete sections filled with well-annotated links to excellent information and resources.
    Highly Recommended !
37. Music History Lesson Plans
    You will need to search through these as they are quite American oriented. There are significant numbers though. A second site can be found at Hypermusic.
    Primary, Secondary
38. Music Madness
    This opens to the first of the Links pages. There are multiple directories of briefly annotated links covering every aspect of music and music education. Much of what is available is Free, but check to be sure.
    Teachers
39. Music Resources on the Internet
    ‘provides an extensive collection of Free music graphics and annotated links to music information, resources, graphics, newsgroups, discussion lists, organizations, publications, and more. Although emphasis is on classical and jazz genres, many other music genres and general music resources are listed as well.’
40. Music Teacher International
    ‘Each bi-monthly issue is packed with news from around the world that will keep you in touch with your chosen profession. Interviews that will surprise and inform; feature articles on new and exciting teaching techniques that will inspire you; reviews on products such as print music, recordings, books and software that will keep you informed.’
    Teachers
41. Music Teacher’s Resource Site
    Multiple links to Free, as well as subscription, material. The Free Section includes everything from Teaching Resources for age groups, Listening Projects and Tests, Top Tips, Guide to World Music, links and much more.
    Teachers
42. Music - The Unspoken Word
    ‘Intent upon making the exploration of music an interesting and enjoyable experience, the designers have incorporated into the site an unusual interactive section, wherein one can listen to representative music, see interviews with famous musical personalities and respond to quizzes based on material contained in the web site.’ You should also visit the sister site, Welcome to Music Notes, which covers theory, history, professions, instruments, glossary and more.
43. Performing Arts
    Multiple links to a variety of performing arts sources, mostly US based. Some will be irrelevant, others of value.
44. School Clip Art
    [Free Clip Art Downloads for a Learning World]
    ‘Capture the attention of your readers by using fun clipart and pictures on your worksheets, lesson plans, and quizzes. You can make boring assignments fun !’ Extensive listing done in a range of directories.
45. Scribble’s Kid’s Art Site - allows for uploading of student work, famous artist information, art projects, contests, quizzes as well as Free cards and more.
    Primary
46. Tanbur Music Education Links
    ‘“Tanbur” is a collection of interactive Internet links that have been tested in the secondary school music classroom and for ‘homework’ activities. There are pages for Listen, Play, Guitar, Songs, Quiz and Forum.’
47. Teachers’ Guide for the Professional Cartoonists’ Index
    The guide and a link to an index of editorial cartoons from 50+ cartoonists. Setting up the site allows the option to use the cartoons in meaningful ways in education.
    Secondary, Tertiary
48. The Arts Software
    This incorporates commercial software. For Freeware, check the Educational Software page.
• Blues 123 Time
• Morphases
  An ‘online next generation software in face manipulation.’
• Music Publisher
  ‘Music notation software system for all 32-bit Windows platforms.’
• Sight Reading Challenge
  ‘Learning to read music.’
• Tweenies : Play to the Music
49. The EServer Drama Collection
    ‘This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works.’ Plays grouped under historical periods from Greek to Contemporary. has links to journals, further lin ks and criticism.
50. The Online Paper Airplane Museum
    ‘810+ designs as of the beginning of 2007.’ Everyone should be able to find a design that works for them.
51. The Piano Education Page
    A significant collection of annotated links covering multiple, musical areas. ‘Here we bring together some of our collection of the links on the Internet that students, parents, teachers, and pianists might find useful or interesting. Our primary criterion for inclusion on these lists is educational value.’
52. VidKids
    Lesson plans to develop skills and techniques for making ‘moving pictures’ with children.
    Primary, Secondary
53. Vocalist
    ‘Vocalist, the singers’ resource contains Free online singing lessons, learn to sing with articles on voice/auditions/performing or working in the music industry. Includes articles for singing teachers and students of voice of all ages, standards and styles. Browse the site to find useful information on aspects of voice, singing, performance, plus Free online singing lessons and voice training articles for vocalists related to singing and getting into the music industry.’ UK based.
54. Watercolour & Watermedia Instruction
    A selection tips and demos that vary in length and quality but provide a reasonable introduction to this field