Art and music can accompany 'serious' work. These sites support a wide range of learning opportunities.
Art and music can accompany "serious" work. These areas are engaging and allow an opportunity for other modes of learning.
The eyes of the Mona Lisa blink when you enter the Incredible Art Department. At this site are lesson plans and software tools. Great source for art teachers as well as teachers in other subjects looking for class projects for the artsy students.
http://www.hickorytech.net/~cshirk/k-12music/
Cynthia Shirk has created a very comprehensive music site--composing as well as history, scores, groups etc. If you only have time to look at one site, this is IT!
The Piano Education Page is a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 1000 pages of family-friendly information, upgraded regularly. Special sections for teachers, parents and kids.
The site offers artistic, biographical, and contact information, along with upcoming performances of composers, conductors, performers, and ensembles. The directory also contains information on professional organizations and educators working in new American music. Look for multi-media conversations with the composers, performers, and industry insiders who shape the world of new American music.
Draw3D is a simple site but fun, and includes on-line drawing lessons. Created by Mark Kistler, Public Television's favorite drawing teacher.
Bose has created a new curriculum called In Harmony with Education. Principles of music, such as sound, are directly connected to math and science concepts. The interactivity of this site allows students to experiment with altering music scores.
Lessons, including building instruments, are well-done and the relationship between the lessons and national standards, such as graphing, is especially clear and solid.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050907173812/http:/
/www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6617/arts6.html
Art and Music for Middle School Students is primarily a set of well-chosen links in both fields for this student population. Interactivity is minimal but the displays, such as art in the White House and inspirational depictions of views in space, are intriguing.
The 2Simple Music Toolkit offers exploration in creating simple sequences of sound and rhythm to composing short simple pieces of music. The levels of software adhere to national learning standards.
Computer-generated music is a boon to students who cannot afford their own instruments and opens up new worlds. Video clips help teachers.
http://www.nyphilkids.org/lab/main.phtml?
The New York's Philharmonic Kidzone contains build-it-yourself instrument design, composition and orchestration.
http://www.poissonrouge.com/bowl.php
Poisson Rouge for children encourages synchronizing simple music notation with a keyboard.
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/freebies
/28-online-photo-editing-websites-to-have-fun-with/
There are a lot of online resources available where you can change, enhance and make funny photo editing without knowing and program like Photoshop. Dainis Graveris has collected a list of free photo editing services, featuring everything from simple photo cleanup and enhancement to fun artistic effects.
MakeMusic (with a special price for schools)helps teachers create lessons for vocal or instrumental ensembles and tools for site reading and singing.
for teaching instrumental or vocal.
Learning time is so precious that such cross-disciplinary approaches should be encouraged.