Pack just enough to fit. Crews determine what personal items to take with them on a trip to Mars. Each team must decide what to take with them on a two-and-a-half year trip to Mars and whether their items will fit within the allotted...

Explore the science of space exploration. Pupils consider technological advances in propulsion, communication, power, navigation, and imaging. They select one of these areas and create a timeline of historical progress that contributed...

Michelangelo's drawings offer a unique insight into how the artist worked and thought. They are beautiful artworks in their own right but also provide a crucial link between his work as a sculptor, painter and architect. Michelangelo was...

Born in Urbino in 1483, Raphael trained with his father and then the Umbrian artist, Perugino. From 1504/5 he worked in Florence where he was much influenced by Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, learning from their depictions of the...

A clear explanation of the variations in graphite pencils used for drawing and how to judge which graphite pencils would be the best to use for particular drawing goals. It also explains the pencil scale which indicates hardness and...

Components of drawing a 3D shape are explained: setting things up, drawing nodes, and drawing edges.

This Khan Academy resource is an article that familiarizes the student with the Turner drawing technique.

Following the completion of the Hour of Code tutorial, three drawing projects are offered for continued practice of skills learned.

This article discusses the benefits of having students create infographics for student research projects. It recommends using the tool Google Drawings for this and explains how to do it. The article includes a sample infographic and a...

Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.

Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.

Creating a memory game by drawing a grid of tiles including the use of object-oriented principles and the Fisher-Yates shuffle.

This article explores the shape, symmetry and surface structure of a football (or soccer ball, depending on your nationality) to see how this understanding can help one draw these sorts of complex shapes.

Get a start on drawing human bodies by using simple shapes and then adding details later. This shows good visual examples including a simple guide to proportions.

Learn to draw a Celtic knot, an interlacing form of decoration used by the ancient Celts and adopted by medieval artists.

Do ants sometimes ruin your picnic? There are some chemical ant repellents you can spray to keep them away, but who wants to spray poison all over their food? In this experiment you can investigate some less toxic solutions that may be...

Some simple drawing tips to apply to your classroom. Help your students find success in their drawing endeavors.

Some simple drawing tips to apply to your classroom. Help your students find success in their drawing endeavors.

Marvin Bartel writes this article in hopes of helping you find a way to reach the students who insist "I can't draw."

Marvin Bartel writes this article in hopes of helping you find a way to reach the students who insist "I can't draw."

Twenty-seven techniques, from basic to fairly complex, are described to help artists better use pencils as an artistic medium.

Born near the town of Vinci in 1452, Leonardo trained in the Florentine workshop of Andrea Verrocchio (1435-88). His first masterpiece was the unfinished Adoration of the Magi (1481, Uffizi, Florence). In 1481-2 he traveled to Milan to...

The Last Judgement was a common theme in church art, but Michelangelo's interpretation was entirely novel. His vision of the Apocalypse is a swirling maelstrom, filled with thick-set and muscular naked figures. Traditional symmetry and...

A media-rich examination of Leonardo's work that includes a timeline of the artist's life, animations of his drawings that attempt to unlock something of the genius in his thinking, up-close details from his notebooks, thematic looks at...