Lesson Planning Websites and Fine Arts Standards of Learning:
- The Teacher's Guide: This website is devoted to helping educators find lesson plans for their specific content area. The site provides lesson for SmartBoard, free worksheets, printouts, and professional development opportunities for teachers. The lesson plans have a description attached to them for easier browsing purposes and provides art lesson plans by different medium.
- Smithsonian Education: This is the Smithsonian's official site for educators. It offers a resource library, access to lesson plans, information on field trips, and opportunities for professional development. Lesson plans are searchable by grade, subject or keyword. Using the resource library, research can be done by keyword.
- The Lesson Plans Page: This website offers lesson plans to a multitude of different content areas, including art. The site requires that the teacher make a secure account to protect their privacy. It also offers educational links and a monthly newsletter.
- Teacher Vision: This site can be used by teachers in all grade levels and content areas, that are in search of graphic organizers and sample lesson plans. The website also contains resources pertaining to classroom management like icebreakers and "getting to know you" student forms.
- ARTSEDGE (Kennedy Center): This website is the Kennedy Center's online resource for educators in the arts. It contains information on national standards, "how to's," and lesson plans. The site's emphasis is on collaboration between teachers in different content areas with teachers in the visual and performing arts. The sections of the site devoted to "how to" includes valuable suggestions for group critiques, Art education legislation, classroom management in an art classroom, and how art teachers can create meaningful cultural experiences for their students by facilitating discussion on global arts issues.
- KinderArt: This website is an art educator resource that gives teachers access to free lesson plans and craft ideas. It offers printouts for all ages of students. The site breaks down its lesson plans and project ideas by category.
- Incredible Art Department: This art educator website gives information on art news, art room set-ups, and offers lesson plans for all levels of art. Lesson plans are offered by elementary, middle, and high school levels. The site also gives information on No Child Left Behind, sample rubrics, and special education.
- Art Teachers.net: This website provides educators with chances to discuss "hot topic" issues with other art educators. It also provides lesson plans and articles for teacher use.
- Virginia Department of Education: This is the main website for the VDOE, where teachers can find the most up to date Standards of Learning for their content area. It gives instructional resources, strategies and correlations on the Fine Arts page and links to art resources. The site also provides statistical data on all school divisions and schools in the State of Virginia.
- Georgia Department of Education: Art Standards: The standards for art, as written by the State of Georgia offer an explanation of what standards are like for the students with disabilities, assessment guidelines, and detailed standards for a variety of subjects in the arts (including painting, drawing, and sculpture). These standards are much more comprehensive to the Virginia standards and give more direction to the teacher.