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in the 
Schools Week

2010

April  26th   to   April 30th

Beall Elementary
&
Frost   Elementary

Hammered Dulcimer Website - This site provides a brief history of dulcimers, information on their construction, and access to online recordings of dulcimer music.

Dulcimer Music- This web site contains over 40 sample recordings of dulcimer music.

Student Dulcimer Worksheet- This provides a student resource sheet to the history of the dulcimer.

Hammer Dulcimer History and Playing- This site provides a complete look at the various parts of a hammered dulcimer and explains how it is played.-

Aesop's Fables.  This Website provides access to 89 of Aesop's fables.  These ancient Greek stories are the basis of many modern stories.  It also provides access to an excellent page on Austrailian Story Telling

Aaron's Extras-This website introduces the students to stories from around the world.  It contains beautiful color illustrations from each story and the full script of each story.

Aaron's Story Book
This is an index of different types of cultural stories.  The stories are grouped by topic.
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Tell A Story - Students are guided through a step by step process of developing a story.

What Makes a Good Story
This is a section that provides an in depth guide for the younger student in creating a story of their own.

Sandford Art:
How to Draw a Face.- This website gives step by step directions as to proper proportions for human faces.  It is a complete lesson that points out mistakes that young artists usually make when they draw.

Draw and Color with Uncle Fred - This web site helps the students create cartoon characters with a step by step set of interactive directions. 
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Learn to Draw With Gary Harbo
This website takes the students through 9 steps to drawing a cartoon character.  The students follow the directions to create the drawing on their own paper.  A new sketch is posted every month.

Sandford Art:  Study Art

This website provides a study of various artistic styles, media, and artists.  It contains several interactive features

Sandford Art:  Abstract Art - This website Provides a study guide to the world of Abstract Art.  It contains an interactive portrait feature.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Abstract Art  This website allows you to view 36 examples of Abstract Modern Art from the museum's permanent collection.
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Vincent Van Gogh - This website provides an indepth and interactive study of this art's life and work.

A Trip to the Globe Theater - This is an online worksheet that takes the students through a guided visit to Shakespear's world.  It can be downloaded and copied or the students can complete it online and print out their answers.

Shakespeare Bookshelf - This is a web site that give the student access to all of the bard's works.  It is possible to view the text of his plays, poems, and other work.

Globe Theater-This web site allows the student to explore the theater that Shakespeare made famous.  It also contains an excellent description of the "Black Death" that was part of Shakespear's world.  Primary source documents in the form of letters are availiable.

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Virtual Tour of the Globe Theater
This website from the new Globe theater in London allows students to take a tour of Shakespear's old Globe Theater.  The site contains 360 degree panaramic views from different locations in the theater.  On the main page click on the "Exhibition"button at the top of the page.  Then choose "Theater Tour" on the left hand side of the screen.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Virtual Tour"

Surfing With the Bard- This web site provides a comprehensive look at William Shakespeare.  It contains a fun section with Shakespeare as seen in "Star Trek", Shakespeare characters as "Paper Dolls", and an excellent "Illustrated Shakespeare" section that features posters and paintings that illustrate his plays.

Metropolitan Museum for Kids

"Skilled artists can make us believe that stone sculptures feel as soft as flesh and that painted canvases are as cool as water. How do  they do this?" This activity page for all ages starts with a look at details. Is the artwork made of metal carved to look like satin or is  it canvas painted to look embroidered? Moving down the page, elementary and preschool-aged artists will enjoy finding the animals  and plants hidden in a seventeenth century Indian carpet in the Carpet Hunt Game. More educational features (for all ages) can be  found by following the "Looking at Art" link at the bottom of the page. http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/

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Sanford Art Page

This site is an excellent instructional tool for all types of art instruction. It allows the students to explore the different  facets of art through the use of various simulation games. It contains step by step instructions that allow the students tocomplete a variety of different art projects. http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/

Art Games

This website introduces students to the many different worlds of Art through the use of several excellent  Educational Games

Create Art
This website allows students to creat their own art by following a series of step by step instructional lessons.

Woodblock Artist's Website
This website provides bersonal information on woodblock printing from a working artist and provides samles of his work.

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Woodblock Printing Introduction
This website provide a short intrduction to the practice of woodblock printing.

History and Tools of Woodblock Printing  This Japanese website provides a well worked review of the history of woodblock printing, the tools used, the different styles, and samples of work produced by various artists.

Early Moderns - This web site provides the student with a comprehensive look at the many artists that have been instrumental in the development of modern dance.  It features an online quiz about the development of modern dance.  Download the worksheet below to help your students research a famous modern dance artist.

And They Kept On Dancing-  This web site provides an entertaining look at the various styles of modern dance: Ballet, Jazz, Folk,Modern, and Tap.  It also provides a simple history of the development modern dance.  download the worksheet below to guide your students through a study of the different forms of modern dance.

Early Moderns: Famous Artist Worksheet- Download this worksheet or let your students work it online.

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And They kept on Dancing Worksheet : Jazz Dance - Using the web site this activity allows your students to creat their own modern jazz dance.  Download the worksheet and make copies for your students

Jazz Kids 
This web site allows the students to mix their own versions of jazz, research famous jazz musicians, and play a simple musical matching game . 

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Beatnik needs to be downloaded to run this website
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Ken Burns Jazz: This web site allows students to listen to recordings of great jazz musicians, view an excellent video narrated by Quinten Marcellus that explains jazz, and experience various jazz styles on a virtual keyboard. 

Jazz Biographies
This is a worksheet that will guide the students in exploring the lives of famous jazz musicians. 

Biography Web Site - This web site provides indepth biographies for 100 Jazz Artists.  It contains pictures and audio clips of their performances

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.NYC Ballet Homepage -  This website provides video and audio clips of this premier ballet company.  It describes the present season's highlights.

.ABC of Ballet -  This resource porvides a colorful exploration of different Ballet terms and famous dancers.

Ballet Coloring Book - This resource provides access to a series of costume pictures that can be printed and colored.
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Ballet Crosswords - This resource provides access to a series of ballet related crossword puzzles.

.Wood Turning Center
This web site provides an in depth study of the wood turner's art.  It contains links to various galleries that showcase this art form.

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of Wood Turners On-Line Gallery This web site provides access to a series of gallery exhibitions sponsored by the AAWT.  Visitors can choose the exhibition and view full color displays of various artists' work.

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Wood Lathes
This web site introduces the viewer to different methods used in the past to turn wood.

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Student Pages:

 Study worksheet for On-Line Gallery tour.

Study Worksheet for Historic Wood Lathes

.How to Tell The Birds From the Flowers This is a collection of hand illustrated poetry written in 1907 that compares different birds with plants.  It makes a good warm up activity that encourages students to write their own poety.

.Poetry 4 Kids This is an engaging website that includes links to "Funny  Poems," "Poetry Lessons,"Kool Kids Poetry Links, "and a "Funny Poetry Fan Club" that contains a series of poetry contests.

Giggle Poetry 
Rate a Poem This site features 15 recently written poems.  The reader has an opportunity to rate the poem and the results are autmatically sent to the book publisher.

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Poetry Class

 This web site takes the reader through a series of lesson on how to write poetry.  Many of the instructions are in the form of poems themselves.  At the end of the lessons there are a series of links to poetry contests for young students.
 

.Pressed Flowers Web Directory

A Collection of 50 of the best websites for pressed flower designs and workshops.

http://pressedflowerart.toplisted.net/index_5484.html

.A Flimbly Collage

This is a set of directions to construct a collage using flowers, plants, colored paper and other art materials.

http://infusion.allconet.org/webquest/Fimby%20Collage.doc

Flower Craft

This is an activity with complete directions to create stationary, greeting cards, wall hangings, and other other projects using dried and pressed flowers.

http://infusion.allconet.org/webquest/Flower%20Crafts.doc

This is a web based resource that details how to create art from dried flowers.  It contains several excellent examples of Pressed flower art.

http://www.preservedgardens.com/

This is a web based resource that details various methods used to press flowers for art projects.

http://www.preservedgardens.com/how-to-press.htm

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