Learning Category - The Arts
The Arts
"Do-It-Yourself" Arts Performing Arts Visual Arts
Music Virtual Arts  nnnnn
NewLiteracy Centre (Early Literacy Activities) - This site is a great resource for early literacy. With lots of activities.

"Do-It-Yourself" Arts
Art Teacher on the Net - Art expert advice, lesson plans, art projects, and quality links.
Aunt Annie's Craft Page - Aunt Annie is busy showing you how to make various crafts. This site appeals to kids of all ages.
Joan Irvine, The Pop-Up Lady - Children call Joan "The Pop-Up Lady". Enter her website and she'll show your primary/junior students how to make pop-up books.
Quilting with Children - Gives detailed descriptions of how to make quilts with children.

Music
Composers' Biographies and their Works - Get to know Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and many others.
NewComposing Music (An Ask ERIC Lesson Plan) - Try out this lesson plan for teaching composition to junior grades. It is nice and clear.
NewExercises for High School Music Students - High school music students can really use this site. Their are a variety of activities that you can play on the web. The goal is to identify different types of intervals, chords, or scales. If you think you're good, try constructing them! Any students that need to work on this aspect of music theory will find this a challenging, useful study tool.
NewFinale Notepad: Basic Music Notation Software - Finale Notepad is a free program that you can download to write music. Many teachers use the regular program Finale and find it a wonderful tool for writing music. Based on the quality of their products, you might want to check this program out.
Glossary of Musical Terms - Allegro moderato, crescendo, forte ...? Learn what they are.
KidSong: Here Comes a Bluebird - Music fun for primary grades.
Kodály Society of Canada - Home page of KSC plus more music resources.
Music CyberFest - Music CyberFest is an online music festival for students musicians. It includes categories for solo, band and vocal performances for both elementary and secondary schools. As well there are students music compositions and even an online jam session.
Music Notes - An interactive online musical experience.
Trouble With Treble - This music site meets all the expectations of the Ontario grade 4 curriculum. It explains the differences between line & spaces, circles and more.

Performing Arts
Medieval & Renaissance Players of Toronto - While theatre companies throughout the world continue to perform the plays of classical Greece and Rome and those from Shakespeare's time on, until recently little attention has been paid to the great dramatic tradition of the centuries between
The Drama Teacher's Resource Room - Place where you can kick back and find some ideas for your classroom or production.

Virtual Arts
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - The AGNS offers an extensive program of tour and workshop programs for all grade levels.
Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art - Discover the world of wildlife art. Create a story, write a wildlife field guide, or curate a museum exhibit with our artworks. Add excitement with music and sound effects.
Museum of Web Art - The Museum of Web Art has on display some of the most exciting and innovative art created specifically for the web medium, and in a friendly and inviting museum atmosphere.
MUVA Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais - MUVA, the Virtual Museum of Art, has been conceived as a dynamic, interactive museum bringing together the most renowned works of contemporary Uruguayan art, an important contributor to Latin American art.
The Art Teachers Place - Art educators will find an assortment of Fine Art Museum links, Lesson plans, Animations, art standards, and a variety of other assorted art links.
The Goodhue Gallery - A virtual gallery where students can tour individual rooms, enlarge pictures and even E-mail the artist.
The Museum of Photographic Arts - MoPA offers visitors the opportunity to view work by some of the most celebrated photographers in the history of the medium - from early and mid-20th century masterworks to contemporary fine art and photojournalism.
NewVirtual Arts and Canadian Women Artists - This unit is designed for an OAC class. There is a focus on producing works of art and the study of art history and art criticism.

Visual Arts
NewArt2LIFE - one of the most extensive cultural web sites in Canada.
A Lifetime of Color - At this site you can Create art, study art, play art games, or teach art. The teach art sections contains great lesson plans! Teachers, this is a FANTASTIC resource.
NewArtEdventures - These are some art adventures. This site has a great ways to introduce students to the arts of history. It is for grades 1 and up. There are teacher resources as well!
Michelangelo Buonarroti - This page is dedicated to those that wish to find out more about Michelangelo Buonarroti and his times.
Museums around the World - This page includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web services connected with museums around the world.
Mythography - Mythography features information about the myths and art of the Greeks, Romans, and Celts.
ReNATssance Art - The history of art from the Proto-Renaissance to the Impressionism Era by Natale Williams.
Royal Ontario Museum - The Royal Ontario Museum is Canada's largest museum and features galleries in Art, Archaeology and Science. It is also an architectural gem.
The Art Gallery of Ontario - Dress up like a famous painting, build sculptures out of weird and wonderful materials, go on an imaginary sketching trip with the Group of Seven in Algonquin Park, play art games and much more.
An EduNET originalThe Byzantine Art - Byzantium, the reorganised Roman Empire with its capital in the East, survive for more than 1100 years, long after the Roman Empire in the West had perished.
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