My Culture Quest is a game where you combine geography with an opportunity to explore artistic objects from different cultures. Your task is to fill a museum exhibition with examples of various kinds of art from different countries. You’ll be choosing objects that are centered around a certain theme, as well as objects that are of a similar type, but from different cultures. The game is timed and moves along quickly. As you choose your items, you find out some information about them. The museum curator asks you questions about your choices, and if you answer incorrectly, you cannot take the item. At the end of the game you can see how your objects are displayed in the exhibition. A few of the cultures explored in this journey include China, Egypt, Africa, Greece, and Italy.
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Interactive Sites for Education -- All of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place! These activities work great with your SMART Board or interactive whiteboard for whole group or small group instruction or use in the computer lab or at home for individual learning. Storybird - Free Artful Storytelling!! Create, Read and Share Visual Stories! Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you can make and share on any device. Great Websites for Kids is a compilation of exemplary websites geared to children from birth to age 14. Suggested sites are evaluated by the Great Websites for Kids Committee using established selection criteria. The committee is made up of members of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. Newly evaluated and accepted sites are added to the database three times a year. The committee also reviews all sites within the database twice a year to guarantee sites are still relevant, appropriate and accessible. This Exquisite Forest An online art project developed by Google, this site is a place for digital storytelling through pictures, not words. Students can work collaboratively to create a short animated story, with each animation building off the previous branches. Students can create their own seeds & invite others to grow a tree with them. Before students can create their own seeds, they do have to contribute to an already existing tree. If a student does not feel they can express their words with an animation, think about having the students pair up. Have one student become an author & write an outline of the story, while the other student draws the animation of the story. Silk Have students to create visual works of art online. Silk is an interactive site where students can drag their mouse around on the page to create beautiful weaving & whirling designs. Drawing lines on the screen will add color to the moving art, & by speeding up or slowing down their movements the effect will change. Students can choose between 6 different colors, & 3 different modes of symmetry. Students can share their creation with a simple link. Have students describe their unique artwork as a description & creative writing exercise. Also available as an app for the iPad. Google Art ProjectThe Art Project powered by Google features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums. Select a museum from the list on the homepage & you can virtually tour it using the same interface style you experience in Google Maps Streetview. Inside the museum, just double click to zoom to a location. You can also open a floor plan overview & click on a room to navigate to that part of the museum. The best part of the Art Project powered by Google is the option to create your own artwork collection while visiting each museum. As you're touring a museum click on the "+" symbol on any work of art see it in greater detail, to add it to your collection, & to open background information about that work of art. To create a collection you must be signed into a Google account. This is a great way to start a story or writing prompt, or to explore history & cultures. |
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