Resources for Teachers and Artists
TOOLS For Artists
Transom.org - a great place to find info and tools for musicians, poets and those interested in in spoken wordMicrosoft Office Template Gallery - templates for everything you need but don't have time to make
NYFA Interactive - from New York art news, helpful articles, art law and other mounds of info
ABC Web Workx - software tutorials, free fonts, and business tools for artists
TOOLS For Teachers
Educator’s Resource – lessons, research, help for all things classroom. http://www.eduref.org/Using Art to Teach Academics – Produced by the Kennedy Center, lesson plans and resources for how to teach academics through the arts. Search by subject and standards. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
Library of Web Resources for K-12 Education – This site reviews and categorizes lesson plans and information on all subject matters including languages, art, and health http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Puzzlemaker – From mazes, number blocks to cryptograms; Discovery has a great generator for teachers. http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Brain Boosters – Another site from Discovery, tons of challenging questions to improve lateral thinking, categorizing, reasoning and more. http://school.discovery.com/brainboosters/
Download Free Graphic Organizers – PDF templates for organizers for compare/contrast, character study, pros and cons, many more. After the last picture of organizers there is a spot to click on more pages. http://freeology.com/graphicorgs/
Study of Skeletons – Print out life size male or juvenile skeleton with bones names listed. Also animal skeletons and individual bones are analyzed on this site. http://www.eskeletons.org/
Pictures of the Brain – in 2-D scans and 3-D animations. Multiple views, very detailed. http://www9.biostr.washington.edu:80/cgi-bin/DA/PageMaster?atlas:Neuroanatomy+ffpathIndex/Master^Frame+2
Magnified Images of Insects – From the Museum of Science, an online gallery of around 25 bugs. http://www.mos.org/sln/sem/sem.html
NCRTEC - for the teachers, helps you develop focused curriculums, plus professional development help
lone prairie art works - artist shares curriculum ideas and how- tos for great art projects.
The Puzzle maker - part of Discovery.com - a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Also check out the Brain Booster, clip art, and science fair site.
Dvds, Software and inkjet cartridges for time management, education, and computer needs. Most all of the items are FREE + $7.95 for shipping and handling. Choose through education, recreation, games, productivity. Look for this FREE + s&p before putting into shopping cart. I saw one or two items that cost a few dollars. http://www.fipromo.com/ednet/index.html?sessid=HzSt0201g8Xk1IMWUh
Free Quality Clip Art – Pictures and illustrations from Ancient Rome to weather for you to use in your classes. http://us.dk.com/static/cs/us/11/clipart/jan04home.html
BUSINESS
IRS - small biz guide to defuse the mythsStarving Artist Law is the launch pad for artists and writers looking for self help legal information Art Business - articles about most everything that an art encounters in business
RESEARCH
African Music Encyclopedia - research musiciansArt Lex - art dictionary for everyone; definitions for more than 3000 terms used in discussing visual culture along with supporting images
Library Spot.com - an amazing reference tool for finding anything you can think of.
Comiclopedia - an illustrated compendium of over 5,000 international comic artists with biographies and artwork examples.
Bartleby.com - free online book resource, fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more
