Elementary+Art+Links

This page is for links to websites that would help teachers (or students) in elementary schools.

adinkra cloth - PBS Kids' Africa: A simple printmaking lesson using stamps. This is great for when the 3rd graders are reading "The Talking Cloth." http://www.pbs.org/wonders/Kids/cloth/cloth.htm

Altered Books Gallery: Examples of altered books that could be used for lesson ideas. http://karenswhimsy.com/altered-books/

Classroom Displays: Pictures and descriptions of various classroom displays. http://lmhartley.edublogs.org/

History of Animation: Somewhat incomplete, but this still has some nice details. http://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/program/anihist.html

History of Animation - Before Disney: A short illustrated article with some very useful vocabulary. I recommend you do google searches for the words "thaumatrope," "phenakistoscope," and "zeotrope." http://www-viz.tamu.edu/courses/viza615/97spring/pjames/history/main.html

How to make a concertina book: I first saw this project in room132.com's video podcast and was able to figure it's construction out then, but for anyone who hasn't been doing paper folding for over two decades this tutorial should help. http://lizplummer.com/blog/2005/12/20/how-to-make-a-concertina-book/

Jack and Beverly's Persistence of Vision: Lots of pictures of collectibles that use the principle of "persistence of vision" to create the illusion of movement. http://brightbytes.com/collection/per_vis.html

Pilkey.com: The official web site of the author of Dogzilla, the Dumb Bunneys, and of course the Captain Underpants books. http://www.pilkey.com/

Room 132: "This is the classroom blog of room 132 where students post their work." Their teacher also has a cool weekly video blog on the site where he talks about what the kids are doing in his Language Arts and Visual Arts classes. ... Awesome stuff, I must say. http://www.room132.com/

SciQ - Science Revealed: Science themed video via RSS. It's even formatted for the iPod. http://www.sciencerevealed.com/

ZOOM (PBS Kids):A variety of cool activities saved as .pdf files, including more than one animation project in the "Five Senses" section. http://pbskids.org/zoom/printables/activities/