Visual Arts

  These pages are general and specific resources that can be of use to students that are taking a Visual Arts course.  Please email me if you have a good suggestion for a visual arts resource site for this page.

Useful Resources

Primary

Useful Resources

  • Kinder Art
  • CIA World Fact Book - The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
  • CBBC - News articles and articles on various subjects and topics, quizzes, games, clips and downloads.
  • Primary resources.co.uk - Subject specific worksheets and activities listed under different topics.
  • Activity village.co.uk - Colouring pages, kids crafts, home school resources, puzzles, printables, jigsaws, sudoku and other activities for kids.
  • Apples4theteacher.com - A Primary Website - Interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject (preK-grade 6).
  • IXL Maths - Maths practice site with maths questions in more than 1,000 topics (Pre-K to Grade 6 skills).
  • Seussville - Countless fun reading activities from Dr Seuss for lower primary students.
  • Reading comprehension skills practice - An array of reading comprehension activities based on original stories, poems, essays and articles. Most suitable for upper primary to early secondary level.
  • The Kitz Page - This site contains online maths and number activities, Sudoku, educational word and picture games, clipart, puzzles, colouring pages and downloads.
  • Merriam-Webster's Word Central - Go to this link for superior word power and language fun. Challenge yourself to spelling and vocabulary games, learn the meaning of daily buzz words, and even create your own dictionary.
  • Shodor Interactive - This site is comprised of a series of interactive online maths activities, lessons, and discussions. You can browse by age range, subject or topic.
  • LearningPlanet.com - Choose your grade level and try the daily quizzes, word games and maths quizzes on this site.
  • @school - @school is an easy to use and child friendly website organised around the UK National Curriculum for primary education at home or school at Key Stage 1 (KS1). and Key Stage 2 (KS2). @school provides online tests, interactive exercises, worksheets, pictures and much more based on curriculum subjects including KS2 Maths, KS2 Numeracy, KS2 English and KS2 Science.
  • Room 108 - This site has over 900 pages of Kids Educational Games, Interactive Writing, Animated Stories, Songs, Kids Puzzles, Art, Math, Science, Social studies, Distance Learning and much more.
  • KidsKnowIt.com - Learn about animals, astronomy, geology, science, maths and spelling on this site. There are also featured learning activities and games on various topics like dinosaurs, the universe, the human body, and many others.
  • Funbrain.com - A collection of reading, maths and science activities, web books and comics (K to Grade 8).
  • Math Playground - An action-packed site for primary to early secondary students. Practice your maths skills, play a logic game and have some fun!
  • Primary Games - Learn with a series of language art, maths, social studies, and science activities. Challenge yourself to puzzles, send postcards and do much more on this site.
  • Teaching and learning resources for Key Stage 2 - On-line, stimulating, interactive, teacher-written learning resources to support the National Curriculum for England and Wales for children in Key Stage 2 (ages 7 to 11) of Primary School. Subjects include literacy, maths, science, history, geography and DT.
TOK Links with Art

1. Marcus du Sautoy TED talk about universal symmetry in nature.
2. Excellent Maths Illuminated unit on symmetry
3. Article about Pollock’s fractals in art.
4. Short BBC documentary looking at Escher’s maths through art.