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Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Art Bingo: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week we learn that art communicates ideas and feelings.
Goshen College
Visual Art: The Conversation Game
When we prompt our students to create art based on "self," how many of us get generic pictures or simple ideas? This game is designed to stretch each student's self list so that they have a wide variety of expressive ideas to choose from.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
For this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraiture 101 [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Drawing [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this lesson, students create a visual representation of themselves using collage with magazine cut-outs and write a detailed description of it.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Text to Self Connections
Enjoy with your students this collection of images that invite them to make personal connections. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal connections using these images, a nice scaffold for later connections...
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Costume Box Digital Game
In this digital game, children can dress up all their favorite friends from Peg + Cat. Get Peg, Cat, and friends all dressed up in the silliest of outfits, of course! Shuffle up the clothes they're wearing by clicking the arrows. Also...
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma Exhibit: Chuck Close
A brief introduction to the work of photorealist painter Chuck Close. Includes visual examples of his work, including the recognizable "Big Self-Portrait".
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: King Gimp Revisited
Site from NPR includes an interview, video clips and links about expressionist artist, Dan Keplinger. This artist has overcome his disability to create fine art that expresses himself.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Zion National Park
What do you know about Zion National Park? Use this site to learn more about this national park. This site features activities, maps and more.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pedro E. Guerrero: Capturing the Artist
This media gallery from the American Masters and VOCES co-presentation of Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey explores Guerrero's working relationship with sculptor Louise Nevelson. Guerrero was a gifted photographer of...