These interactive videos are meant to stimulate creativity and a hands-on activity at home.
- Subject:
- Arts Education
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Homework/Assignment
- Author:
- Artrageous with Nate
- Date Added:
- 03/23/2020
Get Creative! Spend some time getting creative every day. This could mean doing an art activity you find in the bank, touring a museum virtually, or playing around with some music. Resources for all of these activites are available in The Resource Bank.
If you find there are too many resources to sort through, you can filter the results using the “Filter Resources” area on the left side of the screen. Select “Education Level” to narrow your results to a specific education level. (Please note - for the purposes of this site these "Education Levels" are used when filtering - Lower Primary = K-2, Upper Primary=3-5, Middle Years=6-8, High School=9-12)
These interactive videos are meant to stimulate creativity and a hands-on activity at home.
A collection of hands on arts and crafts activities for preschool to grade 5.
This site offers arts education resources for teachers and parents. It helps kids learn to appreciate the arts by providing them with the opportunity to play games, conduct investigations, and explore different forms of art.
Ask Dr. Universe is a science-education project from Washington State University. Kids can send Dr. Universe any question they may have about history, geography, plants, animals, technology, engineering, math, culture, and more.
Free online coding courses (based out of Australia) for students in grade 3-12.
Auxy is a digital-music-creation app for iOS that focuses on beats and electronic music. It's gorgeously designed, offering a simple-to-hop-into experience that has tons of depth. To start creating your track, add a melodic instrument or drum sound from the app's built-in sound pack. Then, press and hold to edit your loop, duplicate it, or toggle a 12-tone chromatic scale or an 8-tone major, minor, or harmonic minor scale. The next screen shows a grid. Each column represents a note of the scale, and each row is a single beat. Tap the boxes in each row to indicate which notes you want to play on each beat. You can add as many instruments as you like to your one-, two-, or four-bar loop. Then, swipe to the right on-screen to create the next loop in your song with the same instruments. Tap the gear at the top of the screen to alter settings for your project (such as tempo and key).
From the menu at right, you can render your project and then export it directly to SoundCloud or save it as a video, audio, or uncompressed WAV file to your device. You can also export your project as a MIDI file or export the individual instruments. The top-left menu lets you browse built-in projects and your own creations, and you can also browse and download additional sound packs. You can also browse other users' creations on SoundCloud or view the Auxy Instagram feed.
Leading museums share their collections through virtual, augmented and mix reality.
Bringing the arts to life through virtual, augmented and mixed reality, Boulevard is reshaping the landscape of storytelling and revolutionizing the way the world looks at art and culture.
The "Educate" and "Experiences" tabs are a great place to start.
There are full lessons in here under "Educate"!
Bamboo Learning is the leader in voice powered education, having won three national awards for voice-based e-learning tools. Our Alexa skills, Bamboo® Books, Bamboo® Luminaries, Bamboo® Math, Bamboo® Music, and Highlights Storybooks from Bamboo, get more challenging as students master different levels. Bamboo skills also track progress & award badges. Bamboo Grove is a web-based parent dashboard for parents to follow their children’s progress in Bamboo Learning’s Alexa skills.
This Initiative encourages children to make their own musical instruments out of waste. The site features instrumental tutorials, a music track for kids and lyrics for kids to sing along to, and a colouring book about recycling,
This is a great platform to join if you are interested in joining a band, interested in joining an orchestra, if you are about to go into middle school, if you're about to enter high school or if you're a music educator.
Music education advocate Scott Lang has launched a new music advocacy group called Be Part of the Music (www.BePartoftheMusic.com) to provide free resources to school music teachers, administrators, students, and parents. The stated goal of the organization is to recruit new students to school music programs. The free, customizable recruitment and retention materials, which currently include 45 documents and 27 videos are designed to help the community better understand the different ensembles and instruments that are available, along with the positive impact that music can play in the life of a child and the school community.
Find out more at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfiugQyMl2oFvY0JcOAgOg
"In Beats Empire, students act as music producers in a studio where they sign new artists, direct the bands to record songs, perform market research and marketing, and try to produce hits, gaining enough profit to keep the studio running and to pay the talent. The goal of the game is to get a gold record (500,000+ sales) in every music genre or to earn three platinum records (1,000,000+ sales) in any one genre, all without running out of money."
Located in Greece, the Benaki Museum features European and Asian pieces of artwork dating all the way back to prehistoric ages. In addition to having a massive collection of art you can explore virtually, the Benaki also offers audio tours for several of their larger exhibits.
Why this is the best playdough recipe:
It’s easy to make
It will last for months if stored in a sealed container or bag
It’s inexpensive
The texture is divine. It’s soft, pliable, and fun to work with.
Most major art museums around the world offer virtual tours and resources for free. We Are Teachers offers a long list of virtual museum tours, including Benaki Museum, The Frick Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art’s #MetKids, Musée d’Orsay, Museo Frida Kahlo, The Museum of the World, The National Gallery, The National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern: Andy Warhol Exhibit, The Van Gogh Museum, The Vatican Museums.
Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. This site is a great way to bring creativity to your classroom or home. Students create, read and publish using a set of tools that is simple to use. Features include:
- 50 hand-picked fonts to choose from
- Add images or take your own photos
- Drop in video or music, or even record your voice
- Use the pen tool to draw or annotate
- Use shapes, arrows and emojis to express your ideas
- Portrait, square, or landscape book layouts
Students combine text, images, audio and video to create:
Interactive stories
Digital portfolios
Research journals
Poetry books
Science reports
Instruction manuals
‘About me’ books
Comic adventures
Join this Moodle course that offers the following music theory modules:
- Introduction to Music
- Music Division
- Time Signatures and Note Expansions
- Accidentals-Major Scales-Intervals
A FREE Hand-drawn Animated Gif creator.
Copy and paste this url into your browser to see a short and basic tutorial about how to use this tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfE1cu8Cw1o
No account needed!
"To make an animated GIF it is as simple as drawing on a blank scene editor. After drawing multiple scenes to create the gif, the user presses play to preview the animation with the ability to easily make edits." (AASL)
Use this to have students demonstrate their learning or use it to creatively present new ideas or teach lessons. There are plenty of ideas and examples under the "Teachers" tab at the top of the site.
This site offers 40+ Best Indoor Activities for young children.
This is a word guessing game, perfect for children! A child acts out a word or phrase (for example a movie or a book), while other kids guess the word or phrase. Choose from the following categories: Actions, Animals, Books, Movies, Places, TV Shows.
Besides "Charades for Kids", the site also includes "Charades Ideas Generator" (for older students/adults), "Christmas Charades Ideas", "How to Play Charades" and "Resources".
If you're looking for some printable charades ideas for kids, you'll find those here too.
This site offers a fun guide to gardening for kids.