Art Ideas for Teaching and Learning
February 20, 2013Ideas
Below are resources that can be used to connect visual art and literacy. If you have resources that you’ve used in your classroom please be sure and add them at the bottom of this post where it says ‘comment’.
- ASCD SmartBrief includes the launch of Smithsonian Quests from Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. I suggest you check it out, looks very interesting.
- Using Fotoapp on ipads grade 3 students used 6 words to describe themselves that were incorporated into their self-portraits. You can see the artwork by clicking here.
- The Painter’s Key is a website that contains Robert Genn Twice-Weekly Letter. It is a community of creative people that you might find inspirational. Take a look by clicking here.
- On this vimeo you will find student illustrated idioms. Please click here.
- Andy Warhol was the inspiration for these black and white photo portraits that are accompanied by the artists’ statements. Please click here.
- Symbaloo – Chris Milliken highly recommends this site.
Some of these ideas are from the Teacher Art Exchange.
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Anthony Shostak at Bates College Museum of Art started this program about 8 years ago, http://thousandwordsproject.org/ that connects literacy and the arts. I am now working with Anthony as the education fellow on this project. Area middle schools have been writing curriculum from the program which are now included on the website. We welcome feedback if you have used any lessons and hope more will find it useful.