Menu
Want ChalkTalk™?

Our free ChalkTalk newsletter, distributed quarterly, provides educators with timely articles relating to recent trends in education, classroom topics of interest, along with helpful hints about automobile safety and maintenance.

Enter email address:

music and arts
The American Architectural Foundation (AAF)
www.archfoundation.org
AAF educates individuals and communities about the power of architecture to transform lives and improve the places where we live, learn, work, and play. Also available are curriculum guides for grades K-12.
Art Cyclopedia
www.Artcyclopedia.com
A guide to museum-quality fine art on the internet. Contains an index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. The site reports that it has over 2,300 art sites, presents over 95,000 links to an estimated 180,000 artworks by 8,200 renowned artists.
ARTSEDGE (The National Arts and Education Network)
artsedge.kennedy-center.org
ARTSEDGE is a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is also a partner of MarcoPolo, a consortium of national organizations, state agencies, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. ARTSEDGE seeks to place arts at the center of class curriculums from K to 12. Its web site provides lesson plans for teachers and information about discovering the world of the arts through interactive, media-rich activities.
Art History Resources on the Web
witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Contains links to many art resources from prehistoric art to contemporary art, including Egyptian art, art in early Europe, and 19th century art, to name a few. These sites include web resources for books and photographs. The site also contains segments on prints and photography and on research resources.
Crayola
www.crayola.com
Site contains segments on coloring pages, craft ideas, games and fun, and Crayola products. An educator’s segment discusses Crayola’s Dream-Makers program, designed to encourage the creative development learning of kindergarden to sixth grade children through art activity and to show the importance of visual learning in cross-curricular areas. Lesson plans are provided for all grades from preK-12. Resources include art techniques.
Educational Theatre Association
www.edta.org
“The Educational Theatre Association and its International Thespian Society branch have been working since 1929 to honor excellence among students of theatre and support the work of theatre educators.” Originally focused on theatre in high schools, EdTA has in recent years expanded its membership to include students and teachers in middle schools, and college students preparing for careers in theatre education.
Incredible Art Department
www.princetonol.com/groups/iad
Designed by an art teacher, this site features everything a student or educator of art would need. It includes information on advocacy, jobs, supplies, lesson plans, as well as community chats and podcasts.
Internet School Library Media Center—Art Education
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/arteducation.htm
This art education site is designed for teachers, librarians, parents, and students. It presents links to sites dealing with such subjects as art history, art museums, geographic region or people, individual artists, styles, techniques, journals, organizations, government agencies, and costume. It also has links to sites dealing with lesson plans and kids arts and crafts.
Keeping Arts in Our Schools
www.AmericansForTheArts.org
Americans for the Arts is the nation’s largest non-profit organization working to make art available in all schools. Provides facts about how art helps students’ lives, and information on how people can help their cause.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
www.metmuseum.org
Contains descriptions and images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) of its art collection. Its educational resources segment focuses on libraries and study centers, online resources, image resources, teacher resources, study and research at the Met, and Met publications. Its teacher resources show that the museum’s education department produces a steady stream of programs, activities, workshops, and printed and electronic information that allows teachers to use such resources to integrate art into their daily curricula.
National Art Education Association (NAEA)
www.naea-reston.org
The NAEA was formed in 1947 with a goal to promote art education through Professional Development, Service, Advancement of Knowledge, and Leadership. NAEA is a non-profit, educational organization. The organization is comprised of not only art educators but publishers, manufacturers, students, parents and schools, and anyone who is concerned about the quality art in schools.
Portrait and Figure Drawing
www.bartelart.com/arted/figure&portrait.html
Tips on how to teach figure drawing. It includes different techniques and pictures to illustrate points.
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
www.aaa.si.edu
This archives collection of the Smithsonian contains letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the history of the visual arts in America. Some of these sources can be downloaded from this web site. Specific categories of the site are organized as follows: collections A-Z, oral history interviews, funding aids, collection online, special focus guides, digital collections, search images, search catalogs, recent acquisitions, and exhibits.
Music
K-12 Resources for Music Educators
www.isd77.k12.mn.us/music/k-12music
Resources for music educators and students. Contains links to web sites of music resources in band, choral, orchestra, classroom, and all music categories.
The Children’s Music Archive
judyanddavid.com/cma.html
Contains lyrics, sing-along suggestions, coloring sheets, and activities for many children’s songs. The songs are organized alphabetically by title.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
www.kennedy-center.org
The Kennedy Center is America’s living memorial to President Kennedy as well as the nation’s busiest arts facility, presenting more than 3,000 performances each year. In recent years the Kennedy Center has dramatically expanded its education programs to reach young people, teachers, and families throughout the nation. This website contains educational information for teachers and students on upcoming events and how to bring the love of performing arts to your classroom.
Music Teachers National Association
www.mtna.org
“The mission of Music Teachers National Association is to advance the value of music study and music making to society and to support the professionalism of music teachers.” The association maintains two subsidiary programs: one which promotes professionalism through certification and the other which provides funds to students and teachers to support musical interests.
The National Association for Music Education
www.menc.org
This association’s goal is to advance music education and guarantee the opportunity to learn music and share in musical experiences.
Songs for Teaching
www.SongsForTeaching.com
Contains more than 5,000 songs for subjects across the curriculum. The goal is to encourage creative teachers to use music to teach content. Examples of song categories are mathematics songs, reading and language arts songs, foreign language songs, science songs, and social studies songs. There is a free monthly song download. CDs are for sale.

Insurance underwritten by Unitrin Direct Property & Casualty Company, Unitrin Direct Insurance Company, Response Insurance Company and Warner Insurance Company.

Unitrin Direct insurance companies are subsidiaries of Unitrin, Inc. which has over 6 million policy holders and $9B in assets.
The Unitrin Property & Casualty Insurance Group is rated "A-" (Excellent) by A.M. Best and has $3.5B in admitted assets, $2.3B in liabilities and required reserves, $1.2B in surplus, and $394M in paid up capital.

PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENTS: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TO QUOTE ANY INDIVIDUAL A PREMIUM RATE FOR THE INSURANCE ADVERTISED HEREIN.