Search Engines
Google An extremely useful search tool.
Ask Jeeves for Kids Designed for elementary students, safe and fairly simple.
Presidential Websites
http://worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/presidents.html Great site, written for children
http://whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ Excellent site, great deal of information and portraits
http://ipl.org/div/potus/ Internet Public Library, a good site with portraits and information in an easy to understand format
http://presidentsusa.net/bio.html Biographies of the presidents
http://americanpresidents.org/ Portraits and information
Art Websites
http://artcyclopedia.com/ A great site. Easy to search by artist, work, museum, medium, subject or art movement. Has short biographies and information on each work of art. Includes links to other sites.
http://abcgallery.com/ Olga's Gallery, search for artist by name, many examples of art with artist biographies
http://famouspainter.com/ Lives and art of famous painters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vincent Van Gogh. Biographies and images of works.
http://vangoghmuseum.nl/ Vincent Van Gogh museum
http://intermonet.com/oeuvre/debuts.htm Works of Claude Monet
http://michelangelo.com/okeeffe/ Images of O'Keeffe's work, links to purchase books and prints
http://moma.org The Museum of Modern Art
http://artnet.com/ Search site
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