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Finding ways to incorporate art into the everyday classroom is essential. It's been proven that early exposure to visual art, music, or drama promotes activity in the brain. What better way to create excitement in the math, science or history classroom? Art helps children understand other subjects much more clearly... from math and science, to language arts and geography. So go ahead, start incorporating art into your everyday teaching. Your students will thank you!

ARTICLE: Art Supply Safety
by Scott G. Allen

ARTICLE: Arts Standards
Find the National Visual Arts Standards here.

ARTICLE: Bringing Art into the Home or Classroom
Helpful hints for parents and teachers.

ARTICLE: Children and Art: They Go Together
From da Vinci to Nicholaides, artists have analyzed and perfected drawing techniques, passing this knowledge onto their students. by: Robert Beeching.

ARTICLE: How to Look at and Approach a Work of Art
A guideline containing four basic components or stages of looking at art as suggested by art educator Edmund B. Feldman.

ARTICLE: Saving Children's Artwork
A frequent problem for parents is what to do with all the artwork their kids produce. By: Krista from Richland, WA

ARTICLE: Ways You Can Help Your Child To Express Herself With Art
Some wonderful tips. by: Robbin Towers, age 11

ARTICLE: What Do You Do With An Art Degree?
204 possibilities

ARTICLE: Why is Art Education Important?
Find reasons to support the argument for arts in the classroom.

ART APPRECIATION ^K-6
Ward has a clever way of teaching students that everyone has a different opinion of art. [read more]

ART BOOK [MAKE AN]
A complete set of portfolio assessment lessons from Maryanne Messier. [read more]

ARTISTS, ART APPRECIATION AND ART HISTORY
Lessons that teach about art of the past and present. [read more]

BE A CURATOR - HAVE AN ART SHOW ^{all ages}
An art curator is someone who works in a gallery or museum and is in charge of building art collections, researching art information, writing about art and placing artwork within gallery spaces. [read more]

BULLETIN BOARDS
A growing list of ideas (many of them art themed) for you to use in your classroom. [read more]

COLOR THE SNOW ^PreK+
Who needs a rainy day when you have a snowy day! Create you own winter wonderland with colorful buckets of snow. From Amanda Formaro. [read more]

CREATING THE MOOD OF CREATIVITY ^{all ages}
Whether you are an Art-on-a-cart Instructor or the lone Classroom Teacher, here are a few simple extras that will allow you to utilize your environment to the creative max! Submitted by: Nifodora Krumrie. [read more]

CREATIVE PRINCIPLES ^{Gr. 7-8}
A series of simple design exercises to further understand of the Principles of Design and how each can be developed within a structured composition. From Ruth Hand. [read more]

EXPRESSION AND JOY ^{Gr. 5-8}
Using the technique of cutting paper, participants will be making positive and negative shapes that will be used to create a composition. From Anitra Redlefsen. [read more]

FRUIT COLOR WHEEL ^K-6
Children will create a fruit-themed colour wheel as a decorative reminder of colour-mixing. From Kasia Ciesla. [read more]

HOW ARTISTS SEE ^K-6
Sponsored by Abbeville Press. The twelve-volume How Artists See series is a wonderful introduction for kids to the world of art and to the observation of their world. Each volume presents sixteen diverse works of art devoted to a subject familiar to every child through personal experience. Here you can view exerpts from each of the books written by Colleen Carroll. [read more]

MAKE YOUR OWN SKETCHBOOK ^{Gr. 7-8}
Lori Rennekamp shows you how to create and assemble a sketchbook from assorted materials. [read more]

SKETCHBOOKS! MAKE YOUR OWN ^{Gr. 2-12}
A great way to start the new year is to encourage your students to create a place for all of their clever creations. [read more]

TASTY COLOR MIXING ^K-4
A yummy color mixing lesson that teaches students about the magic of color. [read more]

TEXTURE AND THE WORLD AROUND YOU ^{Gr. 7-8}
The object of this art project from Judy Braddy, is for the students to see, touch, and understand how to draw, paint and produce textures on any art project. [read more]

THE PAINTING BALLERINA ^{Gr. 1-8}
The author of a book shares some inspirational ideas with you and your kinderartists. [read more]

YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THE ADS ^{Gr. 4}
Students will learn to critically scan and design advertisements as consumers and as advertisement designers. From Michele Ritchie-Harris. [read more]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Art Matters: Strategies, Ideas, and Activities to Strengthen Learning Across the Curriculum