Great Websites

APS Fine Arts features great art websites in all disciplines, appropriate for adults and for students at all grade levels.

All Arts Disciplines

The Kennedy Center: Lesson plans, visuals and other resources
National Endowment for the Arts EDSITEment: Contains lesson plans from the National Endowment of the Humanities' EDSITEment in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign language and social studies.

Deep Space Sparkle: Categorizes elementary art lessons by grade, media, subject and more.
Blick Educator's Tab: Lessons and information for art teachers
New Mexico Art Education Association: The New Mexico chapter of the National Art Education Association, dedicated to providing quality content-specific professional development to New Mexico Visual Art teachers.
KinderArt: Search a variety of media by grade level
Incredible Art: Provides links to lessons, clip art, computer art games, and other arts-related resources
Virtual and Print Art Travel Activities: Provides links to printable art activities, online art games, and virtual art museums

Fantastic Plays for Kids: Comprehensive site with ideas, links, lessons, etc. A "one stop shopping" for anything drama! Good source for Narrative Pantomime.
American Alliance for Theatre and Education: Almost everything you could possibly need or want is for drama/theatre is on this website!
LearnImprov.com: Great ways to begin and sustain improv with your class. Probably best for older students.
Aaron's World of Stories: Folktales: Great resource for folktales for story theatre.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kid's page: Interactive site of the Dallas symphony. Play games, learn about instruments
Educational and Fun Songs to Sing With Your Kids in the Car: Singing with your children has been shown to increase language acquisition and development. So, ditch the apps and try some of these great sing-a-long songs.
Morton Subotnick's Creating Music: A place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles
New York Philharmonic Kidzone: Games, instruments, met the conductors and soloists.

PBS Teachers Resources
Mission US: A Revolutionary Way to Learn History: Interactive site about American History

Smithsonian Jazz website: Searchable site about Jazz
From the Top: Interviews with and performances of young artists, information about the PBS program.

Music through the Curriculum: Something for everyone. Virtual instruments, how to make instruments, Music education links.
Theater Seat Store: Musical Glossary for Kids.

Classics for Kids: A site for with a wealth of music links
PBS Teacher Resources: Resources for teachers
DLTK's Crafts for Kids: Several different templates of books for manipulative, felt boards and coloring pages (Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?, Stone Soup, etc.) Also includes several craft activities for different cultures.
The Silk Road Project: Refers to the multicultural organization founded by world-renowned musician Yo-Yo Ma; can address a variety of Social Studies themes by listening to world music, viewing unusual instruments, and learning about the Silk Road itself.

Creative Dance Center: Features information about “Brain Dance”, a technique which can be used for ages five through adult; also provides links to information about how dance can be used to improve kinesthetic awareness and brain function.
The Kennedy Center Dance: Dance activities and lessons.
Math Dance: Lesson ideas for teaching math through movement, a book you can order and some really good video of two witty guys with a knack for choreography.

This page was last updated on: December 6, 2010.