Resources

The following is a list of educational resources that promote learning through art, cross-curricular approaches, and experiential learning. Many incorporate literacy into the activities, and are highly adaptable. These resources provide excellent ideas for bringing creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration into the classroom.



1. **Incredible Art Department**- a comprehensive resource of art lesson plans and activities. [] 2. **Art in the Picture**- this website offers a huge list of information on various artists throughout art history. An excellent student-resource for research-based projects. [] 3. **A Gallery of Educational Thinkers**- this page is an excellent teacher resource for theory-based projects. [] 4. **NAEA homepage**- the National Art Education Association website is an invaluable resource, with lesson plan ideas, information on conferences, current art educational research, assessment strategies, and much more. [] 5. **Randall’s ESL Listening Lab** – contains different thematic podcasts promoting listening skills for ESL learners. [] 6. **Incredible Art Department**- Art related jobs, including teaching jobs. This resource is up to date, and ranges from jobs in the US to overseas. [] 7. **PBS- Art in the 21st Century**- videos of contemporary artists, teacher resources, lesson plans, and more. [] 8. **International Debate Education Association**- a great resource to find ideas for ESL or Language arts topics or debate ideas. [] 9. **WIX**- a free platform to build your own websites. [] 10. **Smithsonian Art Education Site**- This website is a phenomenal resource full of useful tools, most impressive being the free classroom video conferences lead by a museum docent leading the class through a study of a certain aspect of their collection. This site is also full of art relate podcasts, teacher guides and student activities. [] 11. **Art Babble**- this site hotss hundreds of art videos featuring artist interviews and project techniques. [] 12. **Arts Edge- Kennedy Centre-** this lesson plan resource allows you to sort the plans into specific subject matter and age levels. Although these projects are art based, they are meant to engage all curriculums into project- based learning. [] 13. **Thinkfinity**- this educational website hosts subsections of interactive tools, webinars, 21century skills, lesson plans, widgets for blogs, PD sessions and ideas, and a parents section. [] 14. **PBS Kids- Media Awareness**- this website deconstructs media so that students are more aware of advertising tricks, consumerism, and entertainment. [] 15. **National Geographic**- there are many amazing aspects of this website, but this page is one of my favorites. A continent can be chosen, giving more choice of cities, with a range of photos taken in those areas. Great for geography, social and cultural studies, as well as visual culture. [] 16. **Biography- Canadian Classroom**- This resource features videos, study guides, and a free subscription to //The Idea Book//, a bi-annual resource book. [] 17. **History channel**- This website has a multitude of interactive activities, games, puzzles, quizzes and downloads. [] 18. **The National Archives**- This multimedia site boasts virtual classrooms, video-conferences, workshops, lessons and podcasts. [] 19. **National Gallery of Art-** Teaching art through themes, including abstraction, narrative art, marine painting, historical subjects and portraiture. [] 20. **NGA Classroom**- a subsection of the National Gallery site, you can search curriculum across all subjects, a wide-range of topics, with a Super-learner Interactive links. []