Resource Guide:
Art for Elementary Education

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• National Gallery of Art: Teachers
• The Kennedy Center Arts Edge
• Virginia Department of Education: Fine Arts Instructional Resources
• Virginia Department of Education: Fine Arts Standards of Learning
• National Core Arts Standards
• Education Commission of the States: Arts Education
• Arts Education Partnership
• High Impact Instructional Strategies: Visual Arts (Colorado Department of Education)
• Edutopia
• Incredible Art
• National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: Research

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Elementary education
• Primary education
• Art
• Art—Education
• Art—Study and teaching (Early childhood)
• Evaluation
• Self-expression
• Child development
• Children
• Teaching methods
• Lesson planning
• Visual arts
• Painting
• Drawing
• Safety

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Associates Programs Source
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Debating Issues in American Education
• Education Research Complete
• ERIC
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• MasterFILE Premier
• National Gallery Collection
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• Teacher Reference Center
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Art Education
• Studies in Art Education: a Journal of Issues and Research
• International Journal of Education through Art
• International Journal of Education & the Arts
• Arts Education Policy Review
• The Elementary School Teacher
• The Elementary School Journal
• Teaching Artist Journal
• Journal of Art & Design Education
• International Journal of Art & Design Education

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.