Arts Alive learn about theater, dancers, and more
Art
Art lessons grades K-6 Deep Space Sparkle
Art lessons by grade, subject, medium, artist
Lesson plans by grade (This isn’t coming up for me right now, but it seems to be there…)
Art Lessons by grade or discipline includes video lessons
Art books on different topics (drawing, watercolor, etc.) U
- Learning
The Elements of Art great for kids but anyone could benefit — shape, line, texture…
How to Analyze Art U This is many lessons on the subject and is very thorough. (Written so that middle school students can understand, but it seems to require having a pretty big base knowledge about art.)
Art History — by time period, artist bios, examples
Interactive Learning — drawing and analyzing paintings L/M
Learn about wood carving, etching, lithographs, and screen printing (interactive)
Go on a virtual tour of an art museum
Get up close and personal with art at the National Gallery of Art: See paintings by Catlin David Heade Kandinsky Rogier Stella Tissot Watson
Leonardo DaVinci explore his workshop and artist tools of the Renaissance
Art and Music Appreciation Lesson Plans Includes studies of Monet and Mendelssohn (from Harmony Fine Arts)
Learn about different artists and get ideas for art projects to go along with your study
Famous Impressionist Artists Lapbook (practical pages)
Famous Impressionist Artists Wall Chart portraits and biographies (practical pages)
Famous Impressionist Artists Biography Pages (practical pages)
Art Timelines 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Modern Art (practical pages)
Art Notebooking Pages (homeschool helper) Any artist Monet’s River Mona Lisa Renoir Piano Sculpture Van Gogh
Lesson from the National Gallery of Art on different artists
Analyze The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere U Lesson plan with links for the research
AnalyzeThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revere M/U Online interactive
Allegory in Art U Lesson plan with links to the artwork and research
Genre in Art U Lesson plan with links
Famous Paintings (with information)
Normon Rockwell site
Van Gogh site with info, history, paintings, interactives
- Doing
Getty Games online games to practice noticing detail in artwork
The Artist’s Toolkit learn and do — the principles of art
Learn about Pointillism and the try it
Abstract Art — Kandinsky — see his art, try it out
Jackson Pollock — splatter paint just like him
Professor Garfield videos: carving, sculpture, drawing animals, cartoons
Create Art Online at the National Gallery of Art
How to Draw Videos specific things
Shapes and Color online activity L/M (there are three levels and you have to mix the colors)
Grid Drawing Worksheet (child draws the mirror image along the line of symmetry)
Art Techniques with different mediums (from Crayola)
How to Paint with Watercolors — an ebook course designed for adults — there are free videos to watch on this site too (starts with the basics of drawing)
Art Junction ideas, projects, more!
Making Art Fun Learn to draw, watercolors, coloring pages, + learn about artists and view their art galleries
Art/Craft projects A couple of these are found on the world history page too.
- Animation
Bible
Computer
Typing Dance mat typing will have your young kids typing correctly and quickly
Typing lessons and games typingweb
Typing lessons, games karate theme + an alien
Typing for Older Kids if they think dance mat typing is too young for them
Basic Computer Lessons for kids
Computer Lapbook (from the site just above)
Teach Computer Science without a Computer
Technology Lessons K-12 from Intel
How Is Digital Animation Made? Animated Video
Scratch computer click-and-drag programming for elementary students
Blockly similar click and drag programming but can be used in javascript and python
Alice computer programming for middle school and up
Coding course interactive, make games as lessons, much more fun than the textbook below :) Javascript, HTML, CSS
Introduction to Programming Using Java textbook course online
Build a Website beginners html
HTML Lisa Explains it All (This has more info, but I don’t like the site set up — color of it, ads…)
Google’s Code University Python and C++
Coding lots of links
Free Online University for computer science students
Drama
Fire Safety
Sparky site for kids, fire prevention, fire preparedness, online activities
Fire safety, street safety, bus safety… songs for learning
Health
Comprehensive site for all ages (kidshealth.org)
Part of the above site is lesson plans
Lesson plans K-12
Red Rover online games with a focus on safety
Food Groups Game Catch the falling food.
Long list of Foods and Vitamins and how they help our bodies (Dole)
Nutrition M — Build a food pyramid
Healthy Choices L activities including making a meal diary, a map of the grocery store, recipes…
You Are What You Eat activity lesson plan
Kids Quests on different diseases M by the CDC
Food Additives — a list of food additives, their functions and their E numbers
Track your eating and exercise
Healthy Eating and Exercise Site learning for kids (online interactive games…)
Marine Exercise fitness program
Physical Education Home School Program says for grades 7-10
Latin
Music
Music Theory (younger)
Music lesson plans all ages (may require playing an instrument)
Instruments Around the World online activity
Odd Music (unique instruments)
Music Lesson plans — many topics
Listen to Up and Coming Composers
Watch performances and interviews with famous composers
- Classical
Art and Music Appreciation Lesson Plans Includes studies of Monet and Mendelssohn (from Harmony Fine Arts)
Famous Musicians Notebooking Pages You choose from 3 different formats–from practical pages
Famous Musicians Wall Chart – 21 page download with portraits and biographies of famous composers
Classics for Kids website with several educational links
Online Games (from the site above–classics for kids)
New York Philharmonic learn about composers and instruments, compose music, play games…really nice site
Games, learning with Carnegie hall
Go behind the music online interactives, learn about the composers and the inspiration behind their music, San Francisco Symphany
Making Music Fun Online activities, composer biographies, printables, even some beginning instrument playing lessons on video (coloring pages under composer worksheets)–I looked up Rossini and it had a printable bio, word search and a link to watch a symphony play the William Tell Overture.
- Drum
Communicating with drums, plus virtual drum
- Guitar
- Hymns
(See Fanny Crosby’s autobiography, Memories of Eighty Years, on the Books to Read page)
Center for Church Music — Choose a hymn, listen, read lyrics and sheet music and learn the story behind it
Hymn study notebooking pages By Jimmie – by Albright News
Hymn worksheets with lyrics, vocab, questions, verses, background, geography, and more Set One — Set Two
- Period Music
African American Music, history, listening samples
Music from older periods (like Classical and Baroque) as well as music from different countries
Pioneer Music (on the trail)
American Folk Music and dance steps
Listen to Ragtime Music (American History, early 1900s)
WWI songs (video)
Harlem Renaissance Animated video
African American Music click on the time period
The History of Jazz Online interactive learning M/U (Scholastic)
WWII Music Listen and read the lyrics
- Drum
- Piano
Free piano lessons, play by ear
- Opera
Opera for Everyone, website, download music and lesson plans
- Theory
Piano Sheet Music and click on separate pages for theory/other practice
Music Theory — Online Lessons
Test Your Note Reading Skills Online Game (It does show you at first with the notes labeled.)
Test Your Music Listening Skills Online Game (Listen to the notes and then play them back by ear.)
Spanish
For other foreign languages, as well as Spanish, try these sites:
Spanish 1,2,3; German 1,2,3; French 1,2; Latin 1
Busuu – good for vocabulary
Mango — ask at your library if they have bought access to this, then just use your library card number to get in from home — I think this is a great first stop for learning if you have access.
Live Mocha this site stopped having Spanish for free, but it has other languages for free, not the most trusted for accuracy
*****
Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 done by vidoe
Course From this site you can download Florida state’s Spanish school materials. You can see it before you download it. There are 9 units.
Spanish Beginner’s Course – flashcard system with quizzes
BBC’s Online 12 weeks Beginners Course
The Head of the Class sign up and choose “none” for every subject except Spanish. There is a teacher’s guide, worksheets and online activities. I think the youngest grade for Spanish is second grade. They are supposed to post up through sixth grade in 2010 and through eighth grade in 2011.
Salsa L 41 videos for kids (puppets) PBS There are some games as well.
More Spanish helps from the BBC
Flashcard Spanish lingua game, flashcards plus wordsearch, crossword, matching
Spanish 1 helps — Spanish 2 helps
Video: Short beginner videos Longer more advanced videos
Printables for children
Printables: flashcards, wordsearches and worksheets by topic
Worksheets of all kinds, plus printable flashcards and games M
Six Online Games L/M
Online Vocab Games different level choices
Read children’s books in Spanish
Learn all about the human body in Spanish. (It’s narrated so you can listen to it.)
Rainforest Unit with Beginners Spanish
Thinking
Logic/Brain Teasers by Grade 1st-6th about a dozen per grade
Long List of Brain Game Links — I have not been to all the links on this page but it’s set up for students so I’m thinking they are all right
AIM Puzzle Corner — patterns, logic, number…
Analysis of an aerial photograph
Brain Binders — Printables — folding paper, visual puzzle
“Brain” Games Online (Shepherd Software) Lots
Brain Teasers Online
Brain Teasers Videos (each one minute) from the mathtutor.com, scroll down
Cracker online logic game
Code Breaking (online cryptograms for kids) (maybe they want to learn about cryptology HERE)
Code Breaking Game another one
Coin Problem use the balance to find the faulty coin
Fifteen classic tile game
Hidden Pictures Highlights Magazine
Logic Cube Online : starts very simple, gets really hard (has picture ads)
Logic Puzzles (online or printable)
Math Challenge thinking puzzles, there are four levels to choose from
Murder Mystery U Three mysteries from BBC. Download activity pack.
Online Puzzle (2 puzzles easy and hard option)
Patterns (lots of levels)
Patterns (figure out the solution by asking yes/no questions)
Puzzles worksheets
Quiddler Online : A word game (build vocab and spelling)
Set Online : Comparing, contrasting, classifying
Solitaire jump the pegs
Sudoku, Kidoku (kid version of sudoku), Kakuro, Mazes, Crosswords — Printables
Tetris-like game Online
Word puzzles “Hink Pinks” — printables
Word Finds Online easy/hard option
Worksheets (variety of puzzles, mazes, etc.)
May 15, 2010 at 8:48 pm
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Regards
Nicky
New Zealand