Art Sites

Dennae Lovell
Visual Arts Lesson Sites

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/elemlessons.html

This site was I really enjoyed, it has different art projects for all grades. My favorite part of website was the pictures it had so that you could see what the final product is going to look like. My favorite art project that I saw was the sea turtle that was made by using oil pastels. This past week in my kindergarten class we used oil pastels and the students loved it. Each art lesson includes a lesson plan and lists all the items you will need for the lesson. It makes the lessons very straight forward for the teacher. Most lessons can also be adapted for other grades.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Art.htm

On this page you put in a grade that you are teaching and you can look at all different art lessons and pick the one you want to do in your class. The site makes it very easy to navigate and it lays out lesson plans for you it does not show examples of the final product but it does give you enough information to create a lesson. When you click on the grade you want it is broken up into different categories such as Art History and Artists, Collage, Crafts, Sculpture, 3-Dimensional Art, Cultural / World Art, Drawing and Painting the list goes on but I think you get the idea.

http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/

This site is so neat, I loved it! When you go to look for a lesson you put in the grade you want, the subject and a theme and then it gives all kinds of projects you can do. It also has a list of holiday crafts that you can click on and it shows all kinds of art and crafts you can do with your class. I looked at art for St. Patrick’s Day since it is coming up and one lesson was making leprechaun hats. This site has so many different ideas that you can use and they make it so easy to navigate and find what you need.

http://www.creativespotlite.com/

This site I liked because it shows you how to paint with water colors or how to use pastels. I do not think it would be good to use for k-2nd but it could if you did not go into as much detail as the site does. Each type of medium has step by step instruction that you can click on, this is an example Acrylic Painting Lessons & Techniques - Step by step acrylic painting demos, articles, and other great resources for beginners. When you look at the pictures they look really hard to do and I think are done by artists. As a teacher you could look at the steps and use them in your class.

http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/art/index.html

This site is very basic but it has some really neat links on it. One link that I liked was a play dough link and it tells you how to make all different types of play dough. I think it is something good to look at but as far as art lessons you could get a few good ideas but it does not have that many to choose from.