Welcome!
The Education Libraries on both the Thunder Bay and Orillia campuses support your teaching of Visual Arts by offering a wide variety of teaching resources. Resources are selected and linked in the categories on the left side of this guide.
Please send an email to edlib@lakeheadu.ca if you would like to recommend a title to add to this guide.
"Free for Now" Resources
Please find below a list of resources that have been expanded or made temporarily available during this pandemic period.
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Amazing Educational ResourcesAmazing Educational Resources is a nonprofit program that was initially created to facilitate free sharing of resources among teachers. The platform has since grown to an all-inclusive hub for educational materials. Amazing Educational Resources facilitates access to and sharing of free high -quality resources among teachers, parents and students.
A Selection of Books for Teaching Visual Arts
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Integrating the Visual Arts Across the Curriculum by With lots of examples and color images, this resource is both a foundational text and a practical guidebook for bringing contemporary art into elementary and middle school classrooms as a way to make learning joyful and meaningful for all learners. Marshall shows how asking questions and posing problems spark curiosity and encourage learners to think deeply and make meaningful connections across the curriculum. At the center of this approach is creativity, with contemporary visual art as its inspiration. The text covers methods of creative inquiry-based learning, art and how it connects to the "big ideas" addressed by academic domains, flexible structures teachers can use for curriculum development, creative teaching strategies using contemporary art, and models of art-based inquiry curriculum. Book Features: Provides research-based project ideas and curriculum models for arts integration. Shows how Project Zero's flexible structures and frameworks can be used to develop creative inquiry and an arts integration curriculum. Explains how contemporary visual art connects to the four major disciplines--science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts. Includes full-color images of contemporary art that are appropriate for elementary and middle school learners. Demonstrates how arts integration can and should be substantive, multidimensional, and creative.
