National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages
Forget the romantic view of the Middle Ages. What was it really like? Lesson plan focuses on exploring the lives of the peasants, craftsmen, and monks. Hyperlinks lead to great illustrations.
Other
K 3 Learning pages.com: Web Resources: Middle Ages
Discover the Middle Ages through this comprehensive site. Offers lesson plans, art, projects, facts, research reports and more.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is a Butt Tuba and Why Is It in Medieval Art?
A rabbit attempts to play a church organ, while a knight fights a giant snail and a naked man blows a trumpet with his rear end. These bizarre images, painted with squirrel-hair brushes on vellum or parchment by monks, nuns and urban...
Incredible Art Department
Incredible Art: Eric Carle Collage
This lesson plan encourages children to use painted paper to make a collage using the style of Eric Carle as inspiration.
Other
Dick Blick Art Materials Castles Lesson Plan
This illustrated lesson plan could easily fit into social studies or art unit on European castles. Students create a pop-up castle with construction paper and other art materials.
Goshen College
Goshen College: Clay Sculpture: Gargoyles
This resource provides an artistic lesson plan dealing with ceramics, sculpture, and gargoyles.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: America at the Centennial
A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Students interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.