Arts
Art Safari - teaches you how to look at and talk about art. Online activities encourage children to write stories about art and to create their own artwork.
Art2Life - The Art2Life site invites you to journey through 100 years of art, people and events in Canada. This interactive experience allows users to choose a decade in history and journey through the art, music and event of their choice to learn about broader issues in Canadian culture and society. - a collaborative effort between the York Region District School Board and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Study Art Explore the world of art and artists through an interactive timeline and glossary. Learn about the color wheel, the elements and principles of art, and much more!
The Artist's Toolkit - Visual Elements and Principles - explore the tools that artists use - like line, colour and balance - to build works of art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
A Brush with Wildlife - How do you use art principles like balance, contrast, movement, and proportion to compose a powerful work of art? Create a composition with a famous wildlife artist.
Art Tales: Telling Stories With Wildlife Art
McMichael Canadian Art Gallery
Collections of the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery
A. Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and art composition. In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history. A. Pintura: Art Detective is designed for 4th-graders and up. Students can play the game independently or in small groups.
Inside Art is an online game which explores a painting from the inside out. During an art museum tour, you're sucked into a vortex and find yourself inside a mystery painting. Your only hope of escape is to answer the questions "Who?/What?/Where?/How?" Inside Art is designed for 4th-graders and up.
Destination Modern Art - from the Museum of Modern Art - designed especially for children ages five to eight, features a visitor from outer space who is sent to Earth on a mission to explore modern art.
Eyes on Art - "a learning to look curriculum"
How to "READ" a Painting Learning Art criticism skills to enrich the museum experience.
Emily Carr at Home and at Work - a SchoolNet Digital Collection (English and French)
Louvre Museum - take the Virtual Tour (requires QuickTime 4.0 plugin) en Français
Mr. Picassohead - Create your own head in the style of Picasso
Teachers! Link to lesson plans and teaching ideas.
Trouble with Treble
focuses on grade 4 expectations from the Ontario Curriculum. The specific expectations covered are:
recognize that the treble clef defines the names of the lines (e,g,b,d,f) and spaces
(f,a,c,e) on the staff ; recognize that specific pitches may be represented by notes placed on a staff; identify whole notes, half-notes,
quarter-notes, and eighth-notes, and their corresponding rests in 4/4
time. Student worksheets are included.
ArtsAlive - from The National Arts Centre- "A great place to
discover the excitement of the performing arts." Includes an Instrument Lab,
Orchestra Pit, and Activities and Games (English and French)
Open Your Ears - from TVOKids - Play Musical Bingo, Tour an Orchestra, Explore Musical Moods, Make Your Own Music
San Francisco Symphony for Kids - Fun With Music - learn about the elements of music and the instruments of a symphony orchestra
Music through the Curriculum - activities that connect music to Reading, Math and Science
Essentials
of Music - "Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's the site for
basic information about classical music." The main sections
are;
Eras: Overviews of the six main periods in music history -- Middle
Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century.
Composers: Brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will bring to life the artists and their
works.
Glossary: 200 definitions with numerous musical examples.
The Astonishing World of Musical Instruments - from the Virtual Museum of Canada (French & English)
Virtual Orchestra - see photographs of an instrument and hear the sound it makes.
PlayMusic - This is a fun, interactive site from the American Symphony Orchestra League which presents information and interactive games about orchestral instruments. The site uses the Shockwave plugin.
Music Notes: An Interactive Online Musical Experience
Teachers! Link to lesson plans and teaching ideas.
Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays - scripts to print out and read/perform
Teachers! Link to lesson plans and teaching ideas.