Suggested Websites

While developing these on-line learning sites, the Museum discovered several art and history related websites that teachers and students might want to investigate.  Please send information about your favorite on-line learning sites to the Museum’s education department at (860) 434-5542, ext. 115 or david@flogris.org.

Other Museums’ On-Line Learning Sites:

Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Virginia
http://www.history.org/kids/games/

National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm

Victoria & Albert Museum
London, England
http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/do_online/index.html

Smithsonian Institutions
Washington, D.C.
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/explore_by_topic/everything_art.html
Note: click on: Game and Activities

LA County Museum of Art
Los Angeles,California
http://www.lacma.org/programs/NexGenKids.aspx#game
Note: click on: Families & Children in American Art: Online Game

Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
http://www.rom.on.ca/schools/activities.php

Art-Related Sites:

A. Pintura, Art Detective
www.eduweb.com/pintura

Students are presented with a mystery painting and must identify the artist based on information and visuals between six artists (Titian, Raphael, Millet, Van Gogh, Gaugin, Picasso). Explanations of differences of available upon correct guesses. This site is informative, fun, and user-friendly. The site is meant for students with a basic understanding of artistic vocabulary and styles.

A Brush with Wildlife
www.wildlifeart.org/Rungius/index.html

Students create a masterpiece with wildlife artist Carl Rungius. The site begins by going through artistic principles in an animated fashion.

Art Lessons
www.talentteacher.com

Nearly 20 lessons are offered about painting technique. The site also features the “Art Song” which explains artistic techniques and principles through song. This site is most appropriate for solo painters, however, the “Art Song” is fun and would be especially effective with younger kids.

The @rt Room
www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/

This site offers a series of games and activities related to various arts (the stories behind masterpieces, treasure hunts, trivia tests). Also gives ideas for crafts and activities. The site offers ideas for off-line activities off-line.

Inside Art
www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html

This site allows visitors to get “stuck” in a masterpiece, where one must find the answers to questions about the piece before leaving it. A quiz at the end ensures that information is absorbed. Site includes key terminology.

Kinder Art
www.kinderart.com

This site offers creative and fun ideas for teachers to use in the classroom.

Artist’s Toolkit
www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/

This site offers activities centered on artistic principles, like line, shading, color, shape, etc. For each topic, there is an initial animated video to watch, then pictures in which to identify the qualities, then a blank canvas to create based on these characteristics. This site is a good tool to teach a basic understanding and working vocabulary of artistic principles. 

Collage Machine
www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.html

On this  site, kids create their own collages by pasting “cut-outs” onto an on-line canvas.

Portrait Detectives
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/portraits/index.html

This site begins with three portrait examples that point out specifics within the paintings that reveal details about the subject.  Next, students are given three additional portraits and are asked questions that apply their critical eye.