ArtEdventures

http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/play.html

ArtEdventures is a series of seven art centred interactive online games for teachers and intermediate students.  (The site also features six websites for primary grades as well.) 

The newest game, The Art of Crime Detection, allows you to witness a crime and then be interviewed by the police to identify the culprit using a new police tool called the PDArtist.  This game teaches how the left and right brain work and the best ways to use your brain as an artist.  The goal is to create a composite portrait to help identify the culprit.

Go West, Young Artist takes place in 1870.  You travel westward and meet six landscape artists who teach you the basics of landscape composition.

Out of this World Design has you redesigning common earth objects for use by aliens.  Learn all about industrial design while exploring new designs for familiar objects.

Be an Architect involves designing a house and learning about site, form, function, materials floor plans and elevation.  Recommended for sixth grade and up.

Leonardo’s Workshop places you in Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop as you search for clues to undo the changes someone has made to history.

Color Theory vs. Dr. Gray and his Dechromatizers.  Your mission is to stop the The evil Dr. Gray and his Dechromatizer from draining the color from fine art everywhere

Face to Face with Portraits from the Past.  A time machine has been accidentally set off bringing five people out of the past.  They need to be identified and sent back.  You can only use their portraits as a guide to identifying them.

These interactive games also come with hands-on-activities and teacher resources. A great site for students to get exposed to art in a non-traditional way.

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