The US television network PBS has an excellent website for art teachers. The Art: 21 website is based on the television series of the same name and contains videos (Australian users can watch the videos, unlike the BBC iPlayer), artist biographies, slideshows of artworks and educational materials.

Teachers are given free access to teaching guides for each of the five series of Art: 21 as well as an online lesson library that includes the topics:

• Abstraction and realism
• Home and displacement
• Individuals and collectives
• Craftsmanship and labour
• The natural world
• Public and private space
• Ritual and commemoration
• Technology and systems
• War and conflict

A resource certainly worth referring to art teachers.