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700s - The Arts

 

Art

Crayola Crayons hosts this super site with  greeting cards, crafts, coloring pages, and games. Even learn how crayons are made!

At A. Pintura, Art Detective,  a detective style story helps kids explore the art world.

Art Education A great site featuring an interactive art history timeline,  biographies of artists, and various projects.  Click on ArtEdventures  for interactive online activities like  Cave Art to You Art, Leonardo's Workshop,  and Landscape Adventure.

Art Games-Albright-Knox Museum-   colorful, interactive activities.

Art Is Fun-   Some neat art activities- trace a masterpiece, read biographies of great painters, check out some visual tricks in the Eye Bogglers section.

The Artist's Toolkit-  animated demonstrations  on shape, balance, edge, outline, rhythm, line, and other elements. Great artists' works demonstrate the elements. Then students will be able to use those principles and elements in creating art work of their own. An illustrated dictionary of terms is included.

Carmine's Guide to Architecture- take art to new heights with this introduction to architecture.

Draw Pad -create your own flashy art work.

Global Children's Art Gallery View over 1,000 original art works submitted by children all over the world.

Welcome to KidsArt! ....the web site filled with art activities for children. Find games, art lessons, a link to the KidsArt Masters' Gallery, and links to lots of other cool web sites.

Inside Art is an adventure in Art history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art-  The Kids Art section has some neat on-line activities and an art time-line.

Mr. Picasso Head - Create your own "Picasso" by using the face shapes given.

Museum of Modern Art- Art Safari Kids go on an art safari. They look at 4 artworks  and write a story about what they see

Museum of Modern Art- Destination Modern Art  A visitor from outer space is sent to Earth on a mission to explore modern art.

National Gallery of Art. Excellent student center with interactive activities and projects that explore works of art . Try the Paintbox, Collage Maker, and other interactive art features.

Quilting Traditions-  a webquest to learn about quilting and culture- African, Amish, and Native American.

Snowflake Maker  Cut and design virtual paper snowflakes.

Virtual  Art Gallery.  Students are invited to visit the online Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to view over 82,000 works and  to create their own virtual art gallery. Shockwave is required.

 

Camping

Kid's Guide to Wilderness Survival.

Just For Fun!

Find online interactive crossword puzzles on a wide variety of topics.

Berenstain Bears - This site features a trivia quiz, an interactive story, and print-and-cut dress-up dolls with lots of clothes.

Class Brain - Mental Madness puzzles, board games, role-playing games, all types of educational games!

Dance Mat Typing -Colorful and tuneful introduction to touch typing - do all 12 levels and become a top typist.

Disney.com - The official Disney site

Eduplace - Some cool, educational games!

This part of Fact Monster has some very good educational  games.

Fun Brain - Age appropriate learning games that you can choose by age level or category.

FunBrain Reading-  read web books and  make wacky madlibs.

Fun School - Find various games for Kindergarten through 6th Grade- search by grade level or type- such as arcade, board, puzzle, and so on.

GameGoo: Learning that Sticks - Fun games such as Paw Park Sassy Seals and Alien Scavenger Hunt Space Trash to practice your Communication Arts skills.

Harold and the Purple Crayon-  draw and print pictures.

Holiday Games Primarygames.com has lots of fun  holiday activities for elementary students and lots of things for all year as well.

I Spy - Play games based on the I Spy series of books.

Kids Domain - This fun site features hundreds of games, play sites, icons, contests, and a holiday craft and activities section.

National Geographic Kids - This great web site includes a printable animal coloring book and a bookmark maker.

National Geographic - Book Mark Factory design and print your won bookmarks.

Nick Jr. - The popular web site for younger kids.

Nick.com - From the Nickelodeon Network

Northpole.com - Play some fun holiday games with Santa!

PBS Kids - The fantastic Public Television site features Arthur, Between the Lions, Clifford, Mr. Rogers, and all the other PBS friends.

The PBS Cyber Chase section of PBS has lots of ever changing and educational games.

Primary Games - the fun way to learn!  Find  Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies Games.

Rainbow Magic - Click here for some fun holiday activities.

Scholoastic Kids OnLine  Games, contests, and online fun with favorite characters such as Harry Potter, Magic School Bus, Clifford , and so on.

Uptoten  The Kids section has up to 600 games and activities for pre-school and primary students only.

What's Her Face.com - A great site for girls - create a video, a best friend, and listen to tunes among other activities.
 

Music

Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids Site-  Learn about and hear instruments, listen to music, and play fun music games like  Beethoven's Baseball and Music Match.

New York Philharmonic Symphony Kidzone- learn about instruments, composers, play games, even compose music at this great site.

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Learn about and hear all the instruments; explore music concepts in the music lab.

Songs for Children. This site has the lyrics and music for many types of children's' songs. Great for K-2 especially.

 

Sports

Tiger Pride Football

Summer Olympics - Find out about the summer Olympics with information written by Pocantico Hills School third graders.

NBC Olympics - Find out facts about the athletes and a schedule of the events.

Olympic History Cyberhunt -  10 questions with links about the ancient games.

Olympic Museum  coverage of all the Winter Games since 1924, the medal winners, the athletes, and more.

Sports Illustrated for Kids. Search this site for up-to-date information about your favorite sports and to play many different games.

Time For Kids- Winter Olympics  covering medals, online polls, and  latest headlines from the Winter Games.

Winter Olympic Coloring Pages-  8 printable coloring pages of various winter sports.

Winter Olympic Events-  simple to read descriptions of all the winter events.

 

 

Stories and Magazines

Children's StoryBooks On Line.  Read illustrated stories on-line for various age groups.

Good Night Stories. Everything you can do with a story- Read stories, see stories, create mad lib stories, and so on.

National Geographic Explorer - Here's an online version of the magazine for young people, with much to explore and discover. Selections include games, mysteries, online movies, and more.

Storyline: The Screen Actor's Guild offers these stories online, where students can choose from different books and/or different actors to download an audio book.  There are also activities.

 

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