Be a Police Sketch Artist!

Reviewed by Diane Flynn Keith
O V E R V I E W
Resource:Be a Police Sketch Artist!
Provider:The Art of Crime Detection
Summary:Age Range: 8-18 (Parents, as always, should preview the site for suitable content.)
A Washington ClickScholar reminded me of this website that we featured on ClickSchooling in 2003 - it's fun and deserves another look. It provides free instructions on how to be a police sketch artist
Description:When you get to the site, the program lanuches and includes an introduction that explains how artists use the right and left sides of their brains to draw.

Then, watch some animated crime scenes (very mild — for example, vandals put toilet paper on trees). As you watch the scene you get a glimpse of the perpetrator's face.

Next, you help the police catch the vandal by drawing that criminal's face using a sketching tool provided on the site. You select the shape of the face, the eyes, hair, lips, nose, etc. Your composite should look like the criminal.

To find the Crime Detection site, open the A Life Time of Color website, click PLAY, Intermediate then The Art Of Crime Detection.

There are three exercises provided at the site — so plan to spend some time when you visit.
Enjoy!


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C A T E G O R I E S
Orientation:General
Subjects:Art
Teaching Methods:Online Interactive, Unit Study
I N T E N D E D   F O R:
Ages:8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18
Grades:3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
F O R   M O R E   I N F O R M A T I O N
Web Site:http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com