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• Appropriate for PreK aged youth.
• Appropriate for Elementary aged youth.
•  Appropriate for Middle School aged youth.

• A. Pintura, Art Detective.  
  http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
  Outstanding, clever, and stimulating site using a Dashiell Hammett detective style to explore art in some depth.
  
  
• Albright-Knox Art Games.  
  http://www.kids.albrightknox.org
  This interactive site engages children in art activities that help them to learn about artists and the works of art in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
  
  
• American Treasures. 
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
  Divided into three main areas-Memory, Reason, and Imagination-with approximately twenty items in each, this site is exceptionally rich. It is to be a continuously updated exhibit at the Library of Congress.
  
  
• The @rt Room.  
  http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
  Provides a learning environment for exploring the world of art. Includes bibliographies of art books, exhibits of kids' art from different parts of the world, and facts about famous artists.
  
  
• Carving at Skidegate. 
  http://www.Spruceroots.org/PoleSite/Haida.html
  Photographs and text indicate the elaborate nature of totem pole carving.
  
  
• Cartoonster  
  http://cartoonster.kidzdom.com
  This site is a site worth visiting if you are interested in learning about the basics of cartoon animation. Created by a teenager, there are simple tutorials that help you understand the concepts of frame by frame animation.
  
  
• Hands on Crafts. 
  http://www.handsoncrafts.org
  An online studio for kids to play around with pottery, weaving, quilting, and basketry. Uses video, photos, and fun online activities to teach about these traditional arts.
  
  
• The Imagination Factory.  
  http://www.kid-at-art.com
  This site provides art activities using recycled materials. Ideas and clear directions can be found for painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, fiber arts, and crafts from recycled media.
  
  
• Inside Art.  
  http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html
  What if you were trapped inside a painting and had to solve a mystery to get out? An adventure inside art history.
  
  
• Origami. 
  http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/
  Clear instructions and elegant models in the traditional Japanese art of paperfolding from Joseph Wu in Japan. Contains links to many other origami sites, including "How to Make an Origami Crane."
  
  
• Oriland.  
  http://www.oriland.com
  This extensive site offers an origami world to explore, an opportunity to design cities with fold paper models, basic techniques and tips, and a studio with clear directions for folding more than 70 forms, as well as poetry and games.
  
  
• World Wide Art Gallery.  
  http://www.theartgallery.com.au/kidsart.html
  See examples of art done by children from around the world, and connect to links of art activities and information about art and art history.

 

• Appropriate for PreK aged youth.
• Appropriate for Elementary aged youth.
•  Appropriate for Middle School aged youth.

• Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago. 
  http://www.adlerplanetarium.org
  The Adler opened on May 12, 1930, as the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, and continues today to interpret the exploration of the universe for the broadest possible audience.
  
  
• The Art Institute of Chicago. 
  http://www.artic.edu/aic/kids/index.html
  Includes activities for children. Excellent opening page with animated changes of the art images. Includes exploring "A Mysterious Mummy" and "Thousands of Dots" (about a painting by Georges Seurat).
  
  
• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.   
  http://www.childrensmuseum.org/
  The museum offers nontraditional learning opportunities for children and their families. Includes explorations of dinosaurs and visits to "Rex's Lending Library"
  
  
• The Exploratorium, San Francisco.  
  http://www.exploratorium.edu
  An online version of a hands-on museum in San Francisco that permits you to do your own cow's eye dissection or learn the science behind a home run. Be sure to visit the "Learning Studio."
  
  
• The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 
  http://www.thinker.org/
  Utterly fabulous site combining multiple museum holdings in an over 75,000-item database. Images are excellent, and you can send your comments and knowledge about the paintings to the museum.
  
  
• Illinois State Museum, Springfield. 
  http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/
  Provides online exhibits about the Ice Ages and prehistoric mammals as well as a trip back to our Midwestern lands 16,000 years ago.
  
  
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  
  http://collectionsonline.lacma.org
  This fully-searchable database allows the user to search by subject, artist, keyword and more among over 45,000 records and 27,000 digital images.
  
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 
  http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/index.asp
  This is one of the largest and finest art museums in the world. Its collections include more than two million works of art-several hundred thousand of which are on view at any given time-spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present.
  
  
• The National Air and Space Museum Web Site, Washington, D.C.  
  http://www.nasm.si.edu/
  A part of the Smithsonian Institution, this museum contains resources about flight, airplanes, and space travel.
  
  
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
  http://www.nga.gov/
  The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the United States of America. European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and selected works on paper. Full-screen views of whole paintings and details allow close study. The site also includes information on artists and on the museum's facilities and services.
  
  
• National Gallery of Art for Kids.  
  http://www.nga.gov/kids
  Explore stories in art, take a post card tour of one of the galleries, get directions for art activities and projects, and more.
  
  
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. 
  http://national.gallery.ca/
  Contains the largest collection of Canadian art in the world. Contains a virtual tour. Includes sections on Intuit Art, Contemporary Art, and European, American, and Asian Art.
  
  
• National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. 
  http://www.nmai.si.edu
  Part of the Smithsonian Institution, this museum is devoted to the protection and study of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.
  
  
• Ology.  
  http://ology.amnh.org
  The American Museum of Natural History offers a unique museum experience for kids from 8-12. Included are stories, games and interactive activities.
  
  
• Portrait Detectives.  
  http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/portraits
  Using portraits painted centuries ago, we can now learn about the persons and the era in which they lived. Take a guided tour, or investigate by yourself.
  
  
• Salem (Mass.) Witch Museum.  
  http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
  Useful since kids study this area of history. "Haunted Happenings," a commercial part of Salem stuff, is very neat.
  
  
• Smithsonian Education  
  http://www.smithsonianeducation.org
  Whether you're planning a visit, have already visited and even if you've never been to the Smithsonian Museum, this site will have something of interest for you. Take a virtual tour, learn about science, natural history, aviation, dinosaurs, or whatever else interests you. There is something here for everyone.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
  http://www.mnh.si.edu/
  Great site for gaining an understanding of the natural world and our place in it.
  
  
• University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley.  
  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
  If you like paleontology, you'll enjoy the online exhibits here.
  
  
• WebMuseum, Paris. 
  http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
  This is an exciting collection of resources on many subjects ranging from Paul Cézanne, to information on Paris, to Medieval art treasures. Many images can be enlarged for closer viewing.

• Appropriate for PreK aged youth.
• Appropriate for Elementary aged youth.
•  Appropriate for Middle School aged youth.

• Kid's Times.  
  http://www.kidstimes.org
  This current events site is a companion to What's In the News, a weekly television program produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting, and offers news stories written by kids for kids.
  
  
• The World Wide Art Gallery.  
  http://www.theartgallery.com.au/kidsart.html
  See examples of art done by children from around the world, and connect to links of art activities and information about art and art history.
  
  
• Zoom By Kids, For Kids.  
  http://pbskids.org/zoom/
  This site offers games, activities, projects and more. Play along or submit your own activities.

• Appropriate for PreK aged youth.
• Appropriate for Elementary aged youth.
•  Appropriate for Middle School aged youth.