America In Class, an extensive collection of primary and secondary documents, seminars and lessons, provides history and literature teachers with a wide array of materials to help them plan engaging instruction. All materials are designed to align with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and literacy in history and social studies.
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(02/23/2013)
http://americainclass.org/
ArtsConnectEd, created in conjunction with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center, is an interactive collection of art and educational resources for K-12 educators and their students. The site has two main components. Art Finder allows users to search the museums’ digital collection of art, texts, audio, video and interactive activities. Art Collector provides a platform for users to save, customize and share works from sets.
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(12/03/2012)
http://www.artsconnected.org
Highlights is a very popular educational magazine for kids that provides stories, games and lots of great content children love. The online offerings at the Highlights Magazine website provides kids with everything from picture stories, coloring pages, crafts, science experiments and so much more.
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(10/08/2012)
http://www.highlightskids.com
Tux Paint is a free drawing program for kids which, can run both in full-screen mode and in a window. It has a configuration section with many options, and supports a variety of different languages.
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(11/25/2011)
http://www.tuxpaint.org/
On the Google Art Project website, you can visit famous museums from all around the world - Madrid, New York City, Berlin, London and elsewhere - and explore famous art pieces in a level of detail never before possible on the Internet
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(02/07/2011)
http://www.googleartproject.com
Escapemotion.com is a website filled with over 25 amazing scientific art activities, created by the 3D animator and designer Peter Blaskovic. Play with water simulations, cell simulations, fire or gravity fields.
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(01/17/2011)
http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments.html
Timtim.com is a free clipart collection of drawings for children, teachers, parents, schools, churches, charities, and private individuals in need of images for coloring, decorating, greeting cards, or learning for non-commercial projects. The site also has a great online coloring book.
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(06/22/2010)
http://www.timtim.com/coloring/drawing/
Stick animations are a fun and simple way to create your own stories in pictures. Add people, animals, letters and objects and move and bend them a little in each frame, and with very little effort you have built an entire movie!
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(07/02/2009)
http://www.stykz.net
The site Bluecowgames.com offers free, high-quality coloring activites for kids. The activites are available both online and in a downloadable format. You will also find very easy animal jigsaw puzzles and memory matching games.
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(05/12/2009)
http://www.bluecowgames.com
Toytheater.com is an interactive website for kids with lots of activites. For example, you will find the Animation Station, where children can draw their own animated drawings, and the Composer, where kids compose and play their own music.
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(03/19/2009)
http://www.toytheater.com
Shidonni.com is an incredible interactive website for kids aged 4-10 that lets your child create animals, animate them, and so much more! Shidonni.com offers a great free service for children that allows them to express their creativity and imagination both at home and in the classroom.
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(03/17/2009)
http://www.shidonni.com
The website Thecolor.com has hundereds of online coloring pages for kids to color. The finished paintings can be printed or emailed a friend, or you can print out the uncolored pages to color by hand.
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(01/23/2009)
http://www.thecolor.com
Childtopia.com is a huge collection of beautiful educational games, stories and worksheets. Play concentration games, Sudoku, Domino, musical memory games and much more.
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(11/14/2008)
http://www.childtopia.com
Scratch is a programming environment for beginners, where kids can use a simple programming syntax to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and share their creations on the web
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(06/06/2008)
http://scratch.mit.edu
The website www.kerpoof.com turns your kids into true cartoon artists. Doodle, create a movie, build your own greeting card or draw a comic strip using predesigned elements in this free multimedia software.
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(05/26/2008)
http://www.kerpoof.com
Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships.
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(08/25/2006)
http://sketchup.google.com/
This excellent free Photoshop-look-alike lets you edit and manipulate photos, or create digital art. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools
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(01/09/2006)
http://www.getpaint.net
ArtRage is a free painting package that provides a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, water and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X.
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(11/25/2005)
http://www.artrage.com/artrage-demos.html
We find and review high-quality free educational software and websites
- mostly for kids, but also for grown-ups. We have a large selection of web-based
software (check the Online tab), as well as Windows educational
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7 Websites to Get Fun Body Paint Ideas for Art Class
An activity that can help students express themselves in a creative way in art class that is completely unique and a lot of fun is body painting. This article lists seven great sites where you can get new body paint ideas. Read more...
6 Great Avatar Generator Websites Kids Will Love
Kids need a way to represent their likeness and their personality online. This has developed a very strong demand for cartoon avatars, and for avatar generators. The following 6 avatar generator websites produce some of the most unique and interesting avatars that kids love. Read more...