Clip Art

 

Clip Art is a very resourceful tool in your teaching career, because it can make a boring sheet of paper, or website comes to life with images that will amaze your fellow colleagues, students, and parents.  I have given you the top 5 websites I found that had an extensive amount of clip art, in about every subject you could imagine.  Although it can be time consuming, it is very beneficial to your teaching, and that you will use hundreds of times in your career.

 

Discover Channel School’s Clip Art Gallery – This is a fantastic site that mixed all content areas and gives them some appropriate, fun clip art that will spruce up any web page, homework assignment, or newsletter.  Since it is a link of the discovery channel website, the graphic are sharp, some with humor, some very detailed, and will look very polished and professional on whatever project you are using it for.  Have to watch out for the copyright laws, so that is something I would read about though before thinking of using a ton of clip art on this page, but they encourage you to use their clip art.  Easy for students to navigate through. - http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ 

 

Classroom Clipart – Wow!  If I was in the classroom, this site would be fantastic in trying to find the correct clip art for whatever content area you are in.  I could not believe the amount of clip art that was on the server, thousands up thousands of different categories.  Students and teachers would benefit trying to find information about animals and history.  Graphics are sharp and under the subcategory of architecture, the art is amazing.  Would make a wonderful addition to any project. -  http://classroomclipart.com/ 

 

Awesome Clip Art for Kids – This is a nice easy, navigational website for kids that want to put clip art into any project that they have.  It was easy to flow from page to page, and it was not so overwhelming that a child would be confused as to what they were doing.  It is maintained by a 15 year old and his family, so it is family friendly, and would be safe for your kids to browse through without risk of them seeing something that was not age appropriate.  The graphics are pretty simple, not to elaborate, but for a child this would be ideal. - http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/

 

Clip Art Gallery – If you can get past the pop up ads that will show up every time you link to a clip art, then you will find an excellent site that has the right mixture of everything.  In each category there are sub-categories that amazed me.  You could find all the pictures of the presidents, and that would be beneficial for any history teacher, or even student doing a research project.  They have everything from arrows to mystical images, to cell phones.  Anything and everything is on this webpage! - http://www.clipartgallery.com/

 

Awesome Clip Art – Out of all of the sites that bundled clip art pages onto one web page, this one was the best, since it was easy to navigate through, and I took a look at some of the pages, and they seem to have a mix of clip art that will commonly be used.  I, myself, would not have the patience to sit and look through each individual site, but if you are looking for something specific, it is better to have all the expansive clip art web pages on one page, instead of going back and forth on a search engine.  For anyone attempting that dutiful task, happy hunting! - http://www.freestuffcenter.com/clipart/index.html

 

Now that I have given you some of the websites I found, here are some clip art images.