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Sites for Art Classes

Anthony's Kite Workshop

A great do-it-yourself kite building site.  It has instructions for various types of kites and rates them according to level of experience and tools needed.

Louvre Museum Virtual tours

A site where you participate in virtual tours of 9 aspects of the Louvre Museum.

James Wu's Origami site

This is a site about his personal origami collection with instructions on things you can fold yourself and links to other sites about origami.  I have used some of these in the classroom before.

Caldecott Award Winners

A list of Caldecott award winners

Smithsonian Institute

The homepage of the Smithsonian Institute.  Click on Museums and Research Centers to access all the museums within the Institute.  Click on Education to see resources for teachers (lesson plans, field trips, etc.)

Arts Ed Net

The Getty Foundation's art education site.  A great resource to find out about different artists.

Sites used to develop Thomas Haley Art Corner

OVC reference page

Links to freeware programs used to create this site. Programs include NoteTab Lite, Irfanview, FreeZip and Tera Term Pro

Clip Art Connection

A clip art site that actually HAS clipart on it.  No pop-ups or doorways to other sites unless you choose to visit another one.

Discovery School

A parent, teacher, or student  resource.  Has parent ideas, lesson ideas, child-appropriate clip art, and research areas.

Connected University

Connected University's registration page for staff development of educators.  (The arena which allowed me to create Art Corner)