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 * ==Books in the SHS Library Collection related to Arts in Education== ||
 * 707.1 CON || ==== Congdon, Kristin G. __Community art in action.__ ==== ||
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|| ==== Ervin, Barbara Mickelsen. __Making connections : interdisciplinary art activities.__ ==== ==== Contains fifty easy-to-use activities and projects for art, science, math, language arts, social studies, and music designed to encourage creativity in the fifth through nineth grade classroom and provides assessment strategies and teaching objectives. ====

Prince, Eileen S. __Art matters : strategies, ideas, and activities to strengthen learning across the curriculum.__ Contains strategies, ideas, and activities designed to help teachers strengthen their students' learning skills and creative thinking.

Warrick, Karen Clemens. __Art Across the Curriculum__
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__=="Art in education" WebPath Express Websites from Follett's Destiny ==__ ||
 * || __**Arts Education Partnership Home Page**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Involving over 140 national organizations, the Arts Education Partnership combines arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations and promote how important the arts are in education today for every child. This site talks about the partnership, their goals and missions, what they have accomplished so far and what they still hope to do for art education in the United States. There are links to frequently asked questions, art education information, advocacy resources, funding opportunities, evaluation and research. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in education ||
 * **URL:** __http://aep-arts.org/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Online Art Appreciation: An Interdisciplinary Approach**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Find out about the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's ArtThink web site that promotes art education through an interdisciplinary approach. ArtThink is a rich resource for curriculum integration and offers theme-based activities in visual arts, language arts, history, and social studies. The principle underlying all the activities is a passionate belief that a cross-discipline approach is necessary for teaching the arts. Creativity is an important part of growth in education, no matter what discipline is being taught. Find out how this resource came to be and what its creators hope to accomplish with it. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in education, Interdisciplinary approach in education ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.edutopia.org/artthink-online-museum-art-curriculum__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**The Arts**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * In 1997, NAEP administered an arts assessment to approximately 6,480 eighth grade students within the United States. The national sample assessed 268 schools. The assessment measured students' knowledge and skills in music, theater, and visual arts. This site gives an overview of that assessment, including how the students were assessed, what the results of that assessment were, and how those results have impacted, and will impact, the future of art education in the United States. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in education, Art--Study and teaching ||
 * **URL:** __http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/arts/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**The Getty: Education**__ ||  || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Created by the J. Paul Getty Trust, this site talks about art education from a practical point of view. There are links to lesson plans and curriculum ideas for art students of all ages, there are also image galleries and exhibitions, there is a section called ArtsEdnet Talk and also a search and index section for easily finding a certain topic or aspect of art. There is also a Highlights section that features Devices of Wonder: Teaching Tools. ||
 * **Topic:** Art, Art in education, Art--Study and teaching, Arts, Arts--Study and teaching ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**The Early Childhood Educator's Resource Page**__ || **Grade Level: 9-12** ||
 * Students interested in early childhood education will find resources for setting up different play areas in an early childhood classroom. The site will also eventually include contributed ideas from educators, a list of suggested reading for each type of play area, and a special section for teachers. The site provides ideas for the following categories: dramatic play, blocks, circle time, art projects and curriculum builders, quiet time activities, small group lessons, science curriculum, and water and sand play. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in education, Early childhood education, Play ||
 * **URL:** __http://eceresources.iwarp.com/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Smart Kids**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8** ||
 * Smart Kids provides you with a fun, interactive experience that helps you see art in a new way. On the Smart Kids site you can look at many different types of artwork, learn the language of art, explore art materials, and be an art detective while you unravel clues about the history of particular pieces. You can also visit an artist's studio, create your own art, and even share ideas with others. The site also offers help whenever you need it and special sections for teachers and parents. ||
 * **Topic:** Art appreciation, Art in education ||
 * **URL:** __http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/smartkids/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Music Beyond the Mozart Effect**__ || **Grade Level: 9-12** ||
 * All music is movement that is heard, felt, and seen. Musical elements include melody, harmony, timbre, style, dynamics, meaning, and emotion. This site provides a history of music education and discusses the need to see beyond the lyrics; to be able to analyze and truly understand the music around you. The author of this website is a musical educator at both the elementary and collegiate levels and stresses the importance of appreciation and understanding. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in education, Musical analysis ||
 * **URL:** __http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/dl.html__ ||  ||
 * || __**Picture This: Visual Literacy Activities**__ ||  || **Grade Level: K-5 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Are you interested in developing visual literacy activities to be completed in a classroom setting? Are you researching the topic of visual literacy and are looking for some special information about it? If you answered yes to either question, then access this fantastic web site regarding the importance of visual literacy in our lives. Activities described here fall under three different categories: looking and telling, writing, and making. There are a number of activities listed under each heading. There are instructions for the student, as well as information for the teacher with each activity. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in education, Teaching, Visual literacy ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/visual.html__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Visual Literacy and the Net**__ || **Grade Level: K-5 6-8 9-12** ||
 * According to a researcher at Columbia Teacher's College, students learn more than one-half of what they know from visual information. Learn about the topic of visual literacy at this great web site devoted to creating a student-centered, problem-based classroom. Visual literacy activities using the Internet are found here. Each activity has a complete procedure for the students to follow. There are also links to other web sites serving as visual literacy resources found at this web site. Other links at this web site provide information about textual literacy and numerical literacy. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in education, Teaching, Visual literacy ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.fno.org/PL/vislit.htm__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**A Visual Literacy Exercise**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Are you interested in participating in a visual literacy exercise concerning Japan? Are you looking for a new activity for your students to do? Access this web site in order to complete at 30 minute visual literacy activity based on selected woodblock prints from a series entitled Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido by the Japanese artist Hiroshige Ando. A complete procedure for completing the activity is found here, as well as teaching notes for the instructor. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in education, Social sciences--Study and teaching, Visual literacy ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.csuohio.edu/history/exercise/vlehome.html__ ||  ||   ||
 * ||  |||||| **WebPath Express results for "Art in mathematics education"** ||   ||
 * **Displaying 1 - 12 out of 12** || **Grade Level: All Grade Levels** ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Logical Art and the Art of Logic**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Learn about pentominoes, flat shapes formed from five unit squares, when you visit this site. Information is provided on the patterns they create, and what pentominoes have to do with Escher, Penrose, logic, impossible objects, mathematics, and art. You can download a DOS program, entitled newpent.exe, that will assemble pentomino solutions manually or automatically and also does some other entertaining things. Links are provided to two galleries with copyrighted images of pentomino wood and color-paper constructed mosaics. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Escher, M. C.--(Maurits Cornelis),--1898-1972 ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.basic.northwestern.edu/g-buehler/pentominoes/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Mathematics in Art and Architecture**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Visit this site to see wonderful visual examples of mathematical theory in art. You will see everything from Egyptian pyramids to Raphael's painting School of Athens. This site, sponsored by the Mathematics Department at the National University of Singapore, is designed for viewers to study connections between mathematics and art and architecture. You can read about how mathematics is not just about formulas and logic, but also about patterns, symmetry, structure, shape and beauty. Topics such as mathematics and music, tiling, mazes, kaleidoscopes, polyhedra and perspective are covered. Additional links are provided. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Perspective, Symmetry (Art), Tessellations (Mathematics) ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml__ ||  ||
 * || __**Best Paper Airplanes**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * If you are looking for instruction on how to fold paper airplanes, visit this site! The unique origami airplane designs provided on this site are original, copyrighted designs. These are paper aircraft made by folding paper in the style of Japanese origami, yet they all fly. Ten designs in all are provided and are named: Deltry, Katydid, Zump, Spike, Slider, Moth, Tumbler, Canada Goose, and Duck. Some of the designs are complex. Some are simple. All are fun! The basic origami folds, valley and mountain, are explained. ||
 * **Topic:** Airplanes in art, Art in mathematics education, Origami ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.bestpaperairplanes.com/__ ||  ||   ||
 * Learn about pentominoes, flat shapes formed from five unit squares, when you visit this site. Information is provided on the patterns they create, and what pentominoes have to do with Escher, Penrose, logic, impossible objects, mathematics, and art. You can download a DOS program, entitled newpent.exe, that will assemble pentomino solutions manually or automatically and also does some other entertaining things. Links are provided to two galleries with copyrighted images of pentomino wood and color-paper constructed mosaics. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Escher, M. C.--(Maurits Cornelis),--1898-1972 ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.basic.northwestern.edu/g-buehler/pentominoes/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Mathematics in Art and Architecture**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Visit this site to see wonderful visual examples of mathematical theory in art. You will see everything from Egyptian pyramids to Raphael's painting School of Athens. This site, sponsored by the Mathematics Department at the National University of Singapore, is designed for viewers to study connections between mathematics and art and architecture. You can read about how mathematics is not just about formulas and logic, but also about patterns, symmetry, structure, shape and beauty. Topics such as mathematics and music, tiling, mazes, kaleidoscopes, polyhedra and perspective are covered. Additional links are provided. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Perspective, Symmetry (Art), Tessellations (Mathematics) ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml__ ||  ||
 * || __**Best Paper Airplanes**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * If you are looking for instruction on how to fold paper airplanes, visit this site! The unique origami airplane designs provided on this site are original, copyrighted designs. These are paper aircraft made by folding paper in the style of Japanese origami, yet they all fly. Ten designs in all are provided and are named: Deltry, Katydid, Zump, Spike, Slider, Moth, Tumbler, Canada Goose, and Duck. Some of the designs are complex. Some are simple. All are fun! The basic origami folds, valley and mountain, are explained. ||
 * **Topic:** Airplanes in art, Art in mathematics education, Origami ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.bestpaperairplanes.com/__ ||  ||   ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.bestpaperairplanes.com/__ ||  ||   ||


 * || __**Sacred Geometry, Sacred Circles**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Visit this site to learn about geometry as an art form and to read about the history and cultural significance of mandalas. The term sacred geometry is used by archaeologists, anthropologists, and geometricians and includes the religious, philosophical, and spiritual beliefs related to geometry in various cultures during the course of human history. You will find information about mandalas, Native American geometry, sacred geometry, and geometric art. Lesson Plans, links and galleries related to geometric art are provided. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Geometry ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/geomath.htm__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Joseph Wu Origami**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Origami is the art of paper folding. Origami, a Japanese word, means to fold (oru) paper (kami). Go to the Help with Folding section to learn origami basics, basic folds, and origami hints. A comprehensive searchable origami database when you visit this site. To date, this is the most complete list of origami models available anywhere. Don't forget to go to the Photo Gallery, where you can find photographs of amazing origami works of art. Links to information on origami, files and diagrams, other origami home pages are provided. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Origami ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/__ ||  ||   ||
 * ||  || __**Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8** ||
 * You will find thirty symmetry-related activities from a variety of web sites when you visit this site. Topics include an introduction to symmetry; symmetry in the alphabet, in flags, in quilt blocks; reflectional and rotational symmetry; strip patterns; regular and irregular polygons; paper-folding and cutting; origami; tessellation in nature; kaleidoscopes; regular, semiregular, and demiregular tessellations; Islamic tessellations; M.C. Escher; jigsaw puzzles, tessellating art; and explorations with TesselMania. This site coordinates with the web site author's book: Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Escher, M. C.--(Maurits Cornelis),--1898-1972, Symmetry, Symmetry (Art), Tessellations (Mathematics) ||
 * **URL:** __http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbsymteslk.htm__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Orihouse**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * Visit this web site to learn about an interesting origami technique called Knotology, the creation of three-dimensional object by weaving or plaiting of strips of paper. You will find four galleries: Your Room, My Room, Dark Room, and Guest Room containing origami models by different origami artists. You will also find a list of web sites owned by members of the origami email list. Much of the site is available in both Dutch and English. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Origami ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.orihouse.com/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Imperial Origami**__ || **Grade Level: 6-8 9-12** ||
 * The Imperial Origami Club has been in existence since 1998 and was started by a group of undergraduate mathematicians at the Imperial College in South England. The club holds exhibitions, raises money for charity and teaches origami enthusiasts new models and techniques. When you visit this site, you can find details of where and when the club folds, information about the models they fold, a gallery of some of their masterpieces, links to other great origami sites, history of the club, details of past events, details of coming events, details of board members, and much, much more! ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Origami ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/origami/__ ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Sarah's Origami**__ || **Grade Level: 9-12** ||
 * This site provides an eclectic gallery of origami creations. The author of the site has her own gallery of the paper-folding designs she has devised herself. In this gallery you will find origami images of a gingerbread house, beaded irises, and an awareness ribbon, to name a few. Other galleries provide origami categories such as: animals, flora, stars and hearts, 3-d, holiday, masks, and angels. The diagram section offers folding instructions broken down into holiday, flora, village, and miscellaneous categories. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Origami ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.sarahsorigami.com/__ ||  ||
 * || __**Sarah's Origami**__ || **Grade Level: 9-12** ||
 * This site provides an eclectic gallery of origami creations. The author of the site has her own gallery of the paper-folding designs she has devised herself. In this gallery you will find origami images of a gingerbread house, beaded irises, and an awareness ribbon, to name a few. Other galleries provide origami categories such as: animals, flora, stars and hearts, 3-d, holiday, masks, and angels. The diagram section offers folding instructions broken down into holiday, flora, village, and miscellaneous categories. ||
 * **Topic:** Art in mathematics education, Origami ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.sarahsorigami.com/__ ||  ||
 * **URL:** __http://www.sarahsorigami.com/__ ||  ||