We've assembled a variety of activities to reinforce what you've learned about the Uncommon Mission, California Missions, art, and other aspects of this website. We hope we can inspire you to do something wonderful. Here's a beautiful example of one school project from a class at Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco. If you have any activities you'd like to add to our list of links, please send us a message using the KNE Feedback page.

Uncommon Puzzles, Quizzes, and Activities

• Try the interactive Uncommon Mission Crossword Puzzle. There are actually three puzzles. Use the drop down menu to select a puzzle. Do them online or print them and complete on paper. Having trouble with the words? Check out the Glossary section in Resources page.
• Uncommon Mission Wordsearch. A printable page for your students to use. Answer key available.
• There are several activities within the Uncommon Mission that compare artistic styles:
  1. San Jose
  2. San Juan Bautista
  3. San Antonio de Padua
  4. San Buenaventura

Web-based Mission Activities

• Your Mission: The Last Mission: students study the existing Missions (great links) to find characteristics of a successful Mission. Led by their discoveries, students search for theperfect location for the final California Mission by Anderson Dooley-Miller,Resource Specialist Napa Valley USD
• Annie's Mission: Anne Biggs, the ten year old daughter of an American sailor, is separated from her father when he is mysteriously arrested. Your task in this simulation is to search the Mission and areas nearby for clues and items that will help Annie find Bill and then help him escape.
• Understanding Primary Sources: students examine 19th century artists' drawings and paintings of Spanish Missions and write an essay describing what they learn from the artists' works. From Houghton Mifflin Unit and Activities for California.
• Take a virtual tour of a California Mission by way of this ThinkQuest Team 3615 project.
• Try this online multiple-choice quiz to test your Mission knowledge from the California Missions On-Line Project Assessment Page.
• Here's a quiz hosted by the San Diego Historical Society from San Diego Trivia and San Diego Trivia 2 by Evelyn L. Kooperman, a native San Diegan and reference librarian at the San Diego Public Library.
• Welcome to the California Missions: students assume roles and conduct mock talk shows about the treatment of the Indians and how the missions affected the development of California by Sandra Stockton and Annette Weiskircher.
• California Missions Game, a project by graduate students at San Diego State University for that you might duplicate if you are enegetic!
• Here are some online interactive quizzes from the Cucamonga School District. Take the multi-level, general history Mission Quiz.
• Or, go to the California Missions On-Line Project page, select another Mission, then choose "assessment" to get an online quiz for that particular Mission.

Web-based Art Activities and Quizzes

• Artist's Toolkit lets you explore line, color, balance, and more to build art. Also see the Encyclopedia for examples of works of art that illustrate the visual elements and principles
• A more difficult quiz that provides immediate feedback (right/wrong) can be found at the Art Terms Quiz.
• Drawing in One-Point Perspective, repetitive drill-like activity that will make certain you get the point.
• Lesson Plans and Curriculum Ideas from ArtsEdNet including a variety of teaching and learning materials, art images, and the Getty Musueum, Los Angeles, Scope & Sequence guide for learning and teaching art.
• Here's the Quia list of art activities. Make your own or use the ones already there such as the color theory word search, the elements of design, or the principles of design. Also, Matching Art Terms.
• TeachingArts.org by Teachers for Teachers, California based.
• ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works-while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
• Online lessons and games, a list of links from the Incredible Art Department.
• Exploring Linear Perspective demonstrates the horizon line, vanishing point, and parallel lines (orthogonals) within various art works.
• The Walker Art Center has several interactive drop and drag activities including:
  • Story Painting (arrange objects on a canvas, write a short story based on the objects)
  • Design a Garden (design an inner city sculpture garden)
  • Line Design (identify lines used in artwork, then create two cities using lines)
• Make art using the tools at the The Museum of Modern Art, New York website.

Make Your Own Activities With These Tools

• Teaching Tools from Discovery lets you create puzzles, glossaries, quizzes, and worksheets
• Thinks.com provides "brain games, puzzles, and pastimes." Use theirs or create your own with software found at Crossword Software, Puzzle Games, and the Software Select page.
• Filamentality lets you fill in the blank to make hotlists, treasure hunts, webquests, and more.
• How to build a web site with free stuff Part 3 Games and Puzzles from Web Developer
• FunBrain.com lets you make your own games and quizzes, or use the ones that others have created such as Guess the Color
• Crossword Express from John Stevens, isn't free ($35) but is easy to use and helps you create online puzzles using Java.
• Make your own activity at Quia. Initially free, then $49 a year.