Visual+Arts+and+Crafts

=This page i s for visual arts and crafts. While visual arts are helpful in teaching the Social Studies. Deanne is our expert in this area. She will upload any site she finds that will be useful to everyone. Then, everyone else can go to the site and find materials that you can use on your unit. =

http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/resources/artideas/index.htm Art ideas for teachers. This website has about 50 links to useful websites for teachers integrating art into the classroom.

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/grade_level.html A grade level break down of useful lesson plans already created for teachers. Each lesson plan is fully developed, and teachers have posted comments on several of them for what worked, and what could be improved.

http://www.learner.org/resources/series165.html This is a site that has various videos of ways to integrate the visual arts into the classroom.

http://thevisualartsclassroom.blogspot.com/ This is a link to a blog of Ms. Leaney. She has several links to useful resources, especially in the tab "the new teacher".

http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/age13.phtml Scholarships for students under the age of 13. Many of these scholarships are specified in areas of the arts.

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Fine-Arts-in-the-Classroom&id=80061 The arts are critically important for the classroom. This is an article with research on how important the arts are in the classroom. //“Art education helps students develop creativity, self-expression, analytical skills, discipline, cross-cultural understandings, and a heightened appreciation for the arts” and that “students who develop artistic expression and creative problem solving skills are more like to succeed in school and will be better prepared for the jobs and careers of the future” (California Art Study, 2003, p. 1).//

http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/building_lessons/guide.html How to build a art lesson for teachers. On the right side of the page there are links for specific grade levels.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/80061 media type="youtube" key="ikOJIEhL5Po" height="315" width="560" "Creative Classrooms" allows students to engage in arts, with professional artists as teachers. media type="youtube" key="Yhlv5Aeuo_k" height="315" width="420" //This video is very interesting. She has a few different videos of "doodling" art. This one relates art and patterns, to math.//

This is a check list for arts in the classroom. It describes items which are safe and unsafe for the classroom.