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National Gallery of Canada - Artissimo
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/kids/index_e.jsp

A section of the National Gallery's Cybermuse website designed especially for young children.

National Gallery of Canada - Cybermuse - Youth
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/youth/index_e.jsp

  • Canadian Landscapes - A cross-country adventure that highlights landscape works of waterways, farms and countryside, cities and villages and wide-open spaces.
  • Mixed Mediums - get to know five major mediums used by artists to create their works of art.
  • Careers - explores the different types of work that people do at the National Gallery.

National Gallery of Art (US)
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm

  • Adventures with art - online projects and activities for children
  • Lizzy & Gordon visit the Sculpture Garden - an animated musical adventure written by Susan Finley

Culturally Situated Design Tools: teaching math through culture
http://www.rpi.edu/%7Eeglash/csdt.html

This site has links to a variety of tools that explore mathematical concepts such as transformational geometry through the art of different cultures.



Online Courses and Workshops

AccessArt - Visual Arts Online Workshops
http://www.accessart.org.uk/index.html

A series of visually exciting and innovative 'online workshops', specially created by AccessArt. The online workshops condense and articulate artist-led teaching which has taken place in schools, museums and galleries. Each online workshop is accompanied by explanatory notes for the educators and printable resource material which can be used directly by the learner.

Red, Yellow, Blue (Age 3+)
http://www.accessart.org.uk/colour/
Designed to assist young children and children with learning difficulties to explore colour, but pleasant for all ages.

Casting and Construction (Age 6+)
http://www.accessart.org.uk/casting_construction/index.html
This workshop demonstrates how to make a simple clay mold then cast and construct a sculpture using plaster.

Drawing Together (Age 8+)
http://www.accessart.org.uk/drawingtogether/
This workshop is designed to help students to make storyboards and animate their drawings.

Sculpture Chain (Age 7+)
http://www.accessart.org.uk/sculpturechain/index.htm
A workshop about transforming odinary objects into extraordinary sculpture. Designed to encourage lateral thinking about sculpture.

What is Sculpture? (Age 7+)
http://www.accessart.org.uk/whatissculpture/whatissculpture.htm
An online presentation that is meant to introduce students to different types of sculpture.

Working with Withies (Age 7+)

Installation Art (Age 12+)
http://www.accessart.org.uk/ivc/intro.html
Installation is a kind of art making which is not about one object (a sculpture or painting) but is about the relationships between objects, materials or things and the context (place) that they are in.

What is a Print?
http://www.moma.org/whatisaprint/

How to 'Read' a Painting - Learning Art Criticism Skills to Enrich the Museum Experience
http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/%7Eprojects/critic/index.html

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