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Beanie Baby Biographies
Learners write a biography for their favorite Beanie Babies and then share their biography out loud. A simple, yet effective idea! Everyone loves their Beanie Baby!
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Make Your Mark
For this sketching worksheet, students complete activities where they sketch items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Students complete 5 activities.
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Build an Approximate Scale Model of an Object
Young scholars create a model of an object of their choice using sketches that they have drawn. They study what a scale model is and how to construct one. They examine the uses for scale models and why they are produced.
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Self Portraits
Students study themselves in a mirror paying close attention to every attribute on their face. In this self portrait lesson students create a self portrait the same way as Rembrandt has done many times. Students also ask themselves a...
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Using Sketchbooks in Primary Schools
In 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...
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Two-Dimensional Graphs
In this two-dimensional worksheet, students sketch given graphs. They evaluate a function and sketch a level curve. This two-page worksheet contains two problems.
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Dreaming with Marc Chagall
Students scrutinize the early twentieth-century artists who dealt with expressionism and abstraction, especially Marc Chagall. This four lesson unit examines the life and work of Chagall and supports the student creation of works similar...
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Sequential Still Life
Sixth graders engage in a visual arts lesson featuring still life sketching and watercolor painting created by individual students.
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Exploring Local Architecture
Students study architecture through the mediums of sketching and painting. In this art and architecture lesson, students sketch an example of architecture and then paint over the sketch in detail.
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SEASHELLS - PENCIL DRAWINGS
Students explore realism through drawing techniques to create 3D drawing on a 2D surface. They review steps of drawing and vocabulary and develop eye hand coordination while creating their own sketch. Upon completion of sketch students...
South Carolina Educational Television
South Carolina Etv Commission: Artopia: Painting
Enter a world of painting in Artopia. Here, you can become an art critic, meet some professional painters, and learn some tricks to creating your own painting masterpiece.
Other
Bucks County Community College: Visual Organizers
This site walks you through the benefits of visual organizers, and focuses on a variety of types: tables, charts, graphs, timelines, flowcharts, diagrams, and webs.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Detail Drawings: Communicating With Engineers
Students are introduced to detail drawings and the importance of clearly documenting and communicating their designs. They are introduced to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Y14.5 standard, which controls how engineers...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Expressionism
This Artcyclopedia resource offers a brief overview of Expressionism and a chronological timeline that links to each artist.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Toy Vehicle Design
In this instructional activity, students prepare their design plans for building their own toy vehicle from local manufacturers' discards. They start to conceptualize what may help the vehicle roll straight and far as they discuss ideas...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Scratch Paper Sketch Pad
Kids at Art emphasizes the importance of recycling and conservation with this simple way to reuse paper for drawing purposes.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Draw, Pardner!
Using newsprint remnants can be an inexpensive and ecologically friendly source of drawing paper, as this website suggests. Provided are "Tips and Tricks" which give some good uses for the large rolls of newsprint you can get at your...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Expressionism
This Artlex site offers a brief description of Expressionism, examples of Expressionist work, quotes, and related links.
Other
Five Main Types of Graphic Organizers
This site provides information on how to use each graphic organizer. There are also 21 different graphic organizers for you to see.
Other
Write Design: Graphic Organizers
This site explores what graphic organizers are and why they are such valuable instructional tools. Five main types of organizers are addressed: webs, charts, trees, chains, and sketches.
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Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Visualize
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "visualize" mold, including sketches, diagrams, and thumbnails.
Other
Texas Navy Association: Ships of the Texas Navy [Pdf]
These sketches depict various Navy ships of the Texas Navy from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Other
Vincent Art Gallery: About Expressionism
This site offers a definition of Expressionism with links to Van Gogh and Gauguin.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Charlotte's Web
As Charlotte uses her web to communicate, the students will also create a web to send a small message. The students will learn how a spider creates its web, and about the different types of webs spiders make. With this knowledge, the...