Curated OER
Artist's Sketchbooks/Explorer's Jounals
Students create and design original sketchbooks and journals. Students explore a variety of words and images in their creations. Students record observations, experiences, events and places to document a journey on the spot when they occur.
Curated OER
Using Sketchbooks in Primary Schools
For this sketchbook worksheet, students design a book to keep their artistic creations in. Students can use the book to show the progression of their skills and abilities as an artist. It also can be used to collect samples of correct...
Curated OER
Sketchbooks
Third graders review the importance of using a sketchbook in art. Using materials found in the classroom, they create their own sketchbook. They share their creation with the class and start sketching in their book.
Other
1000 Journals
An independent, privately funded social experiment that attempts to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels, to see where they go, and what people do with them.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Visual Thinking: Curator's Choice
This resource provides several curator-selected sketchbooks, from the Smithsonian's archives, belonging to different American artists working during the period from 1840 to 1970.
Primary Resources
Using Sketchbooks in Primary Schools
Get your young students involved in the creative process by introducing sketchbooks in your classroom. Not sure where to start? This article will give you great beginning tips on how to get young imaginations flowing.