The Getty Museum turns traditional art education upside down. Rather than introducing themes and ideas through art history and then applying those concepts to art-making activities, the curriculum elicits these building blocks as students are engaged in activities. The activities culminate in the construction of a portfolio.

The premier art educators, like Eliot Eisner, in this field have contributed to the curriculum-in-formation. The site contains lessons within a unit, gateways to other sites, opportunities for program development and garnering support, and a nice browsing feature.

ArtsEdge is the Kennedy Center's free digital resource for teaching and learning, in through and about the arts. Their collection of free digital resources -- including lesson plans, audio stories, video clips, and interactive online modules -- has been streamlined for easier browsing and upgraded to leverage best practices in educational media and multimedia-supported instruction.

Pintura is designed as a mystery site at which students learn techniques, such as brushstrokes, by comparing an old painting-artist unknown-discovered in an attic with masterworks to determine the name of the artist. Alternate pathways are followed until the right solution to the mystery is found.

Pretty cool. A simple assessment tool is included.

Inside Art complements Pintura -- only at this site students actually find themselves inside a painting and solve a mystery to exit.

Investigating the Renaissance focuses on Renaissance art to illustrate the use of ultraviolet, infrared and x-ray imaging for discovering how paintings were actually made.

Altogether, another exemplar of new technologies, quite unavailable to students below the college level, enhances our knowledge.

010101 : Art in Technological Times, sponsored by Intel and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, demonstrates a walk around the gallery and zooming in on a work for understanding perspective as well as use of audio.

Art Junction offers activities as well as art history.

Articulation 4 Kids is a wonderful portal, covering great works across time and cultures.

The explanation of techniques and links make this site a must-see for researchers.

The Seattle Art Museum has mounted an exhibit of Mexican modern paintings such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

ArtsConnectEd, courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute, is divided into Art Gallery, For Your Classroom, Library and Archives, Playground, and Search. The Art Gallery contains treks and adventures by topics.

Artist's Toolkit is especially innovative; students can view artists in action and create their own artwork online.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC illustrates major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present.

A glimpse into the world of Impressionistic painters combines art history and composition in painting.

Red Studio at the NYC Museum of Modern Art was developed both by teens and curators.

and includes updates of current exhibitions.

Actually, it is interesting for most adults; for instance, differently colored overlays on Matisse's art offers new perspectives.

American Art at the Smithsonian offers collections that illuminate such events as the Civil War.

This professional site brings together art, music, theater, and dance educators to show technology-infused units and creative documentation of inquiry-based learning.