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Abstraction Made Elementary (AME)
www.amearts.org

Art Resources in Teaching
www.artresourcesinteaching.org/

Association for the Advancement of Arts Education
www.aaae.org/

The Getty Information Institute
www.gii.getty.edu/gii/

Learning About Leonardo
http://wave.prohosting.com/artpower/davin2.shtml

Learning About Leonardo is a multidisciplinary science driven web-based ThinkQuest project developed by computer graphics students at high schools in the Bronx and Sweden, exploring the mystery of the Mona Lisa through scientific inquiry and presenting original music composed by Leonardo da Vinci.

There is an interactive quiz, multilingual musical postcards in 23 languages and a dozen da Vinci diversions to explore.

This project compares the work of Dr. Lillian Schwartz of Bell Labs, and Rina de Firenze, author of Mystery of the Mona Lisa. There are current articles online about the celebration of Leonardo's Bronze Horse in Milan as well as a view of the Mona Lisa Bridge in Oslo.

This site is accessible for the hearing impaired. Click on the signing hand for Special Needs Resources.

Our Lesson Plan Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? is part of the Encarta Collection.

The new component ArtiFAQ 21OO is designed to predict how art will influence our lives in the next hundred years. Through probing past Art inspirations and scientific methods students can use available data to make reasonable forecasts for the future. Solving our challenging quiz will give you access to the Future Art Gallery.

ArtiFAQ 2100 is a highly interactive student centered futurist focused web site. It engages teens in analyzing Art History past, political and sociological trends in the near future -- 2100. The Future Gallery offers students peer models of artistically rendered glimpses and verbally described predictions. Among the issues touched on are: Urban Studies, Biodiversity, Communications, Multicultural Diversity and Global Understanding.

Through technology my students are dissolving digital divides of Language and Geography. They translated the French Virtual Africa River Festival into Spanish and Russian.

Please visit http://library.advanced.org/13681/data/nyc

You should note that families can do the following on both sites: Share together an exploration of Art History, evaluate from multigenerational perspectives key theories, experience with each family member, taking away information and excitement on his/her own maturation level, morfing, interactive quizzes, rewards; win the key of knowledge, contribute to a narrative reflective guestbook, respond to other comments, etc.

Our sites have been selected and recommended by the following family friendly organizations: Seal of Approval from GetNetWise, SafeSurf, and included in OPLIN OH! Kids, Weekly Reader, Teenhoopla and Family Education. Finally, parents who want further rich resources for home learning can look at our Study Helper contributed by teachers.
submitted by: Steve Feld

National Art Education Association
www.naea-reston.org