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Students learn to become more media literate. They learn to plan and produce video projects, decode images and messages within media and decide what makes a powerful and effective message. Students develop interview skills, public speaking skills, research skills and learn to interpret and dramatize literature.
Sites with images
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive - Great pictures of outer space.
Pics4Learning - Copyright friendly images of many subjects from Animals to Weather.
Wikipedia - Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by many of its readers. It uses a special type of website, called a wiki, that makes collaboration easy.
Wikimedia Commons - Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to contribute, copy, use and modify any files as long the source and the authors are credited and as long as users release their copies/improvements under the same freedom to others.
Hamilton Museum of Art - A range fo images organized by category.
Also check this list of online image databases that may be used as sources for images.
Character Counts Public Service Announcement
Artist Interviews
Collection Highlights at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Students visit this site, select a work of art and research the artist who created the artwork. Students then prepare an artist interview by developing questions and answers for the interview. The interview is taped and edited.
Biographies of Famous Artists - This list covers just 75 of the most famous painters and sculptors
http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm - A comprehensive listing of artists.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html - A comprehensive listing of artists and museums.
http://www.nmwa.org/collection/a-z.asp - National Museum of Women in the Arts. Their Artist Index can help you find information on a number of artists from their collection.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/ - WebMuseum Artist Index.
The Art History Club - http://www.arthistoryclub.com
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables - translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)
Poetry Project Links
Poetry for Upper Elementary Students
Digital Video Main Index
QuickTime is required to see the projects.
Click here to download the free player for Mac or Windows if you need it.
