Flyte recently designed a new Web site for Artful Assessment, a project of the Portland Museum of Art. The site is a teacher resource about arts-integration and arts assessment in the classroom.
The site shows how visual arts can be integrated into the classroom in a variety of different content areas.
There are 9 works of art (some coming soon), each featuring two lesson plans: one visual arts lesson and one lesson in
another content area: language arts, science, or social studies. Here's an example: Albert Bierstadt's Royal Arches.
The site also features an Artful Assessment blog, where teachers can weigh in on best practices using the tools and plans featured on the site.
The Web site, along with its integrated blog, were built on the WordPress platform. This open-source platform allows an easy way for Artful Assessment to add, edit, and delete content, pages, lesson plans and artwork from the site without any HTML knowledge or expensive software.
If you're a teacher who's looking for ways of integrating visual arts into the classroom, be sure to swing by Artful Assessment's new site for lesson plans and beautiful visuals.
If you're looking for a Web site that you can update and manage yourself, be sure to talk to flyte.
