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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Highlights

For Students 9th - 10th
This selection features 22 works of art from the MFA's collection of more than 13,000 examples of American decorative arts and sculpture ranging in date from the seventeenth century to the present and in origin from North America to...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: American Impressionists

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides many examples of American Impressionistic work. Also, under the section titled "Overview", it gives information into the origins of American Impressionism (click the "continued" link after the paragraph).
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Art Fun With the Fairy Tale, the Fisherman and His

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will give students the opportunity to view a variety of illustrations in different forms of literature, including "The Fisherman and His Wife." Students will be able to create their own work of art. They will also find that...
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Other

Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation: Islamic Art Network

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a treasure trove of scholarly resources on the art and architectural history of Islam. A work in process, the network's resources focus principally on Cairo but are expected, over time, to move outward to cover the...
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Arizona State University

Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan to help young scholars understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
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Arizona State University

Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
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PBS

P.o.v. On Pbs: In the Realms of the Unreal (Outsider Art of Henry Darger)

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion site for independent filmmaker Jessica Yu's exploration of the life and work of Henry Darger, which originally aired on PBS's "P.O.V." series in 2005. Along with a synopsis of the film and Yu's insights about her subject,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Painting in the Style of a Famous Artist

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, student groups will research and create PowerPoint presentations of famous painters. Individually, each student will select an artist and create an original work emulating the style and techniques of that artist.
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US National Archives

Internet Archive: The Art of England: [Ruskin] Lectures Given in Oxford

For Students 9th - 10th
Access various digital copies of a published version of four lectures delivered by Victorian critic John Ruskin on the art of England. The lectures, originally published in 1883, comment on the work of a number of English artists of...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Scratch: Imagine, Program, Share

For Students 9th - 10th
Scratch is a programming language developed for students ages 8 and up. Students can use this free download to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. This...
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Other

Acropolis Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow this link to the online home of the Acropolis Museum, which opened to the public in June 2009. Holdings include weathered originals and reproductions, freestanding works of sculpture, architectural fragments, and other antiquities...
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Art Arena: Origins and Basis of Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is part of a review of the book, "Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings," by Olga M. Davidson. The article's author is Mahmud Kianush, a renowned modern Iranian author. In the article, he discusses the historical...
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Mondrimat

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive program is designed to let you experiment with the elements of art and create an original work inspired by Piet Mondrian. All you need to do is read the simple directions and start clicking!
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America, 1789 1820: The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards historical documents, literary texts, and works of art thematically organized with notes and discussion questions....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Two Functions or Not Two Functions:

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create original artwork using all functions and conics studied throughout the course. Lines and absolute values, conic sections and whatever else they can stick in a y= are combined with some calculator tricks to make works of...
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US National Archives

Nara: Paintings of the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
The selected pictures listed are among the audiovisual holdings of the National Archives that relate to the American Revolution. They are photographic copies of works of art. The dates and mediums of the originals and the names of the...
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Other

The Comic Book Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This art-based literacy program works to increase student proficiency through writing, designing, and publishing an original comic book. You can particpate by paying a small fee per student.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a wonderful comprehensive resource for German-born American painter, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Explore the hyperlinks to Leutze's most important works with images, biographies, articles on the artist, and other sites related to...
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Rocking Chair Blues [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Rocking Chair Blues is an innovative student driven activity which demonstrates that we as a society can easily be hypnotized by the overwhelming positives of technological advancements. Students will accomplish specific tasks over a...
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EL Education

El Education: Graphic Lettering Alphabets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These graphic lettering alphabets were created by 5th/6th grade students in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. They were products from a study of fonts, lettering and graphic arts, to build skills to enhance the visual presentation of all their...
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Lamentation

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful pairing of art and poetry. Writer Beth Houston eloquently articulates her reaction to Giotto's famous artwork, "Lamentation." Website includes an image of the work coupled with the original poem as well as an audio component.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Portrait of Dante

For Students 9th - 10th
An illustration of a man being knighted on a battle field. Durante degli Alighieri (May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Understanding Fairy Tales Old and New

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fairy Tales Collection

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...