Art

• A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words (artwork's the inspiration, where students will, through brainstorming, collectively create a word and idea bank based on a chosen image; individually create a narrative around the work of art, extending past the borders of the image to create a whole story)
  
• Art Room (art links, gallery, more...)
• Art Safari (kids may submit their own art)
• Art Studio Chalkboard (grades 6-12)
• Art Teacher on the Web
• Artist's Toolkit (watch artists in action; explore the artist's toolkit)
  
• ArtsEdge (art links, gallery, research links)
• ArtsEdNet (The Getty's Art Education Website)
• Avalon Arts Studio: Ideas for Teachers (Pre-K-12; MANY categories; also a virtual gallery)
• Baltimore Museum of Art: Matisse for Kids (grades K-8; meet Matisse, see how he created his paintings, learn about his artistic vision; students collect bits of color, patterns, & other props from his paintings & use them to create their own Matisse-themed masterpiece)
  
• Color Theory (grades K-12 - activities, links student artwork, puzzles, games, teacher resources)
• Crayola for Educators
• Exploring Leonardo (comprehensive site for fourth- through eighth-graders, created by the Boston Museum of Science)
• Eyes on Art
• Imagination Factory (art projects from recycled products)
• Imagination Station (draw in 3-D)
• Inside Art
• KinderArt (primary activities) Leonardo da Vinci (traces Leonardo's life from his 1452 birth in a Anchiano farmhouse, just outside the town of Vinci, to his death at age sixty-seven)
• Leonardo's Codex (from the American Museum of Natural History; written between 1506 and 1510; a lively record of Leonardo's thoughts)
• Mona Lisa for the Modern World
• Mythography (grades 7-12; exploring Greek, Roman, & Celtic mythology & art; info on Greek gods & goddesses and heroes & heroines; Olympians section; family tree, maps, & symbols associated with each god; detailed info on Roman & Celtic Mythology)
  
• National Museum of Science and Technology: Leonardo do Vinci (Leonardo's Gallery, with photos of over a hundred modern models; Virtual Leonardo, a three-dimensional exhibit where you can interact with the models, and "walk" around the virtual museum)
• Salvador Dali Art Gallery (grades 7-12; online gallery of 1500 images of his paintings, drawings, watercolors, and objects; life story; photos of him; perfect for teaching art history or for student research)
• Virtual Curriculum: Elementary Art Education
• World Myths & Legends in Art

Music

• A Baroque Music Sampler
  
• ArtsAlive.ca Music  (official Web site of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa; dedicated to arts education for young people; teacher resource kits include lesson plans, student reading & activity sheets; students can listen to full-length classical pieces, view performances by musicians, explore the orchestra & its instruments, read biographies of composers)
• American Symphony Orchestra League (interactive site dedicated to the instruments of the orchestra; students can read about individual instruments, view an illustrated diagram of its parts, and listen to a classical music sampler featuring the instrument)
• An Introduction to Classical Music
  
• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
• Biographies of Classical Composers
  
• Biographies of Famous Composers
  
• Boston Symphony Resources
  
• Charlie Horse Music Pizza Teachers Guide
  
• Children's Music Web
• Classical Music
  
• Classical Music (grades 5-12, lists a variety of musical information arranged by periods and sound clips of famous pieces)
• Classical Music Archives (all grades; excellent)
• Classical Music Page (history; biographical info about composers with portraits and short sound samples; explanations of various musical forms; dictionary of musical terminologies)
  
• Classics for Kids (designed to help students learn about music & have fun too; online music games on composers, music theory, composition)
  
• Composers
  
• Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Website (grades K-8; learn about instruments, composers, & musical periods; EXCELLENT for teachers & students)
• Essentials of Music (classical music)
• Families of the Orchestra
  
• Finale
• Hear the Music
  
• High School Marching Bands
• History of Classical Music
  
• Instrument Encyclopedia (K-12)
• Instruments of the Orchestra
• Instruments of the Orchestra
  
• Jazz Kids Lesson Page (designed as a companion to the PBS Jazz Kids Web site; Tap Your Feet: students introduced to tempo & gain experience playing the beat on non-pitched rhythm instruments; Learning Through  the Duke: students study important contributions by Duke Ellington to jazz; Can You Hear a Story?: explores how to create moods with music; Chops & Axes: students create and perform a talk show that highlights the lives of important musicians)
• K12 Resources for Music Educators (regularly updated; EXTENSIVE)
  
• Mama Lisa's World (K-6 collection of children's songs from all over the world)
• MASSIVE (Math & Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere)
• mfiles (owned & maintained by Jim Paterson, a classical and film music enthusiast living in Scotland)
  
• Mozart's Life
• Music Education Gal (solutions ideas, & helps for elementary music teachers)
• Music Education Online (presented by Children's Music Workshop)
• Music Education Online (resource/information sharing site for music teachers, music directors, performers and parents interested in music programs; project of the Saskatchewan Music Educators Association; check the links, especially Classroom Music)
• Music Hotlist from The Franklin Institute (extensive)
• Music Related Graphics Resources
• Music Teacher Links (extensive)
• MusicTheory
• Music Therapy from the American Music Therapy Association (many ways that music affects all ages)
• MySheetMusic.com
  
• National Association for Music Education Lessons (grades K-12; new section dedicated to teaching patriotic music in schools; choral & band lesson plans, curriculum kit, bulletin board ideas, links to military bands, flag etiquette)
  
• New York Philharmonic Kidzone
• Online Music Education Games from About.com
• Orchestra Instruments
• Periods in Classical Music
  
• Piano Education Page (one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 600 pages of free information, upgraded biweekly)
• Popular Songs in American History (GREAT collection of music from our history; scroll to the bottom of the page for the categories of folk music, songs by country, child ballads, more)
• PlayMusic.org (the American Symphony Orchestra League's fun and interactive site)
  
• San Francisco Symphony
• Sigma Alpha Iota Collection of Music Links (check Music Education Links)
• Songs4Teachers (database of 100 songs and poems for download - FREE)
  
• Songs for the Classroom
• The Technology Institute for Music Educators
• The 100 Greatest Classical Music Composers
  
• The History of Music
• The Symphony: An Interactive Guide