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Portraiture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students compare portraits focusing on the artists' choices in medium, composition, and meaning. In this portrait analysis activity, students analyze the art pieces for their medium, composition, and meaning. Students create a...
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Portraiture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the conventions of portraiture and the technique of photo-montage. In this art analysis lesson, students define portraiture and analyze the pictured pieces of art. Students make a photo-montage portrait or caricature as...
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Portraiture

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners analyze portraiture with a focus on the work of Pablo Picasso. In this portraiture analysis lesson, students explore the conventions of portraiture and the elements of pose, gesture, expression, costume, and setting. Learners...
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In your Science! - Merging Art and Science

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders reflect on what they have learned throughout the unit.  For this Science lesson, 9th graders demonstrate how working together can produce an informative useful project.   
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All About Me: Digital Portfolio

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create digital portfolios. In this careers lesson, students conduct research and use digital tools so that they can plan and present multimedia presentations that feature their best work, their extracurricular activities, and...
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Looking at Portraits: Literary Monuments

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students examine artworks, research literature, create drawings, and make a 3-D model for a monument to a literary figure. For this literary portrait lesson, students discuss and analyze the sculpture Study of a Monument to Alexandre...
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Looking at Portraits: Looking at One's Self

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe the painting Self Portrait by Charles-Antoine and discuss what the artist is trying to say in his self portrait. In this self portrait lesson plan, students discuss the portrait, and create their own self portrait.
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Looking at Portraits - Portraits in Line

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use Van Gogh’s Portrait of Joseph Roulinas inspiration for their own portraits of friends in the classroom. In this portrait lesson plan, students analyze the Van Gogh portrait and discuss his techniques. Students discuss facial...
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Käthe Kollwitz: Never Again War!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the artistic works of Holocaust escapee Käthe Kollowitz. For this Holocaust art lesson, students examine the self-portraits that Kollowitz created and discuss the message in her woodcut images. Students design their own...
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Self Portraits Part 2

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the concept of Cubist art. For this visual arts lesson, 6th graders examine examples of Pablo Picasso's work and they create self portraits in Cubist style.
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Portraits of Courage

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders define courage and illustrate it in a portrait art medium. In this courage and art lesson, 7th graders discuss courage and identify a person who represents its meaning. Students then bring in a visual image of the subject...
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Self-Portraits

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create self-portraits. In this visual arts lesson plan, 6th graders examine the relationship between mood and color value in pieces of art. Students create self-portraits that convey mood using cut paper and glue.
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Self Portraits

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students study themselves in a mirror paying close attention to every attribute on their face. In this self portrait instructional activity students create a self portrait the same way as Rembrandt has done many times. Students also ask...
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Portraits

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students study examples of portrait art. In this portrait lesson, students read about the technique of portrait art and study examples of the portraits. Students then practice portrait art.
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...But What Does It Mean? Symbolism in Artwork

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Pupils analyze the symbolism in the portrait The Artist in His Museum. In this symbolism lesson plan, students analyze the portrait and then create their own portrait containing symbolism.
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Fruit and Vegetable Portraits

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create complex forms from simple items. In this portrait lesson, students examine the work of artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and compose self-portraits using vegetables and fruits as features on the face.
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All Kinds of People - Myself

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete activities to study artists and self-portraits. In this self-portraits lesson, students make a collection of photographs of themselves from their lives and draw self-portraits using a mirror. Students draw portraits of...
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Biography and Portraiture

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine the relationship between biography and portraiture. In this biography and portraiture lesson, students decide upon the differences and similarities between biography and portraits and whether or not biographical...
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Visual Arts- 3D Self-Sculpture

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students construct three dimensional self-portraits. In this visual arts lesson, students use clay to create a self-portrait. Students make the clay and discuss their self-portrait.
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Writing About Art: Comparing Portraits

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students write a composition comparing and contrasting two portraits. In this comparing and contrasting lesson, students will observe two portraits and compare them through their writing. They then will write a letter to the artists...
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Historical Witness: Social Messaging

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a self portrait using symbols that represent them. In this self portrait lesson plan, students look at a nineteenth century painting and discuss the symbols that represent this era. They then recreate a dance in the...
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What is Good About Me?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this self-portrait instructional activity, students draw a picture of themselves in the space provided. They then write some words that tell what is good about them.
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Leonardo the Genius

For Students 6th - 9th
In this artists history worksheet, students read an excerpt about Leonardo Da Vinci. They suggest what natural abilities, attitudes, and personal characteristics he would have needed to do all the famous works that he painted. Students...
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Find–a-word

For Students 7th - 10th
In this word search activity about Australia, students respond to each of 25 questions that are hints to locate the vocabulary terms in the puzzle. The list of words is not given.