Art Docent Resources
For art lessons and print media:
1. Our school library: http://www.westwoodland.org/classrooms/library/index.htm
2. Rm. 209 library: North Shore School District Books, SRA Books (prints, art lessons, presentation boards, transparencies), gray file cabinet (lessons per grade, samples and lesson plans)
3. Incredible Art, http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.html
4. Kinder Art, http://www.kinderart.com
5. Artsonia, http://www.artsonia.com/teachers/lessonplans/
6. Dick Blick, http://www.dickblick.com/
8. Monoprints, http://www.monoprints.com/info/how_to.html
9. ArizonaStateUniversity, Herberger Instutute for Design and the Arts, http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/
10. The art room has a collection of prints in one of the gray cabinets.
Places:
1. Seattle Art Museum, http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/
2. The Frye Art Museum, http://fryemuseum.org/
3. The Henry Art Gallery
4. The Children's Museum
5. The Wing Luke Asian Art Museum
6. The Burke Museum, http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/
7. Space to Create
8. Pratt Fine Arts Center, http://www.pratt.org/classes/2dArts.html
On art education/instruction: books, published studies, supplies, etc:
1. Drawing for Children, Mona Brookes
2. The Art of Teaching Art to Children, by Nancy Beal
4. Gifts of the Muse, Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts, by Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras.
5. Knowledge Center – Educational Leadership, Arts Appreciation, and After School Programs Research, Reports, Articles & Tools | The Wallace Foundation, http://www.wallacefoundation.org/KNOWLEDGECENTER/Pages/default.aspx
6. Seattle Public Schools- The Arts. http://www.seattleschools.org/area/arts/arts_eNews/current.xml
7. Dick Blick, http://www.dickblick.com/
8. Seattle Pottery Supplies, www.seattlepotterysupply.com
10. OSPI, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs), for K-12 Arts, http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/Standards/default.aspx
11. VTS Visual Thinking Strategies, http://www.vtshome.org/
12. Children and Painting and Children, Clay and Sculpture, Topal
13. Hooked on Drawing, Sandy Brooke
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