Students analyze visual arts by creating drawings in their classroom. In this art analysis lesson plan, students identify the paintings of Keith Haring by researching the web. Students utilize paper and oil pastels to create...

Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying...

Students discover the cultural history of Egypt by illustrating Egyptian figures.  In this art history instructional activity, students analyze the Egyptian styles of figure drawings and emulate that by creating their own...

Students study black history, examine portraits and portrait making and create their own portraits, and  investigate their natural environment. This humanities instructional activity provides a text that can be used to teach lessons...

Students, in small groups, simulate an ancient civilization and the art they created, another group represents vandals, and the final group represents archaeologists who try to figure out what life was like for the "ancient peoples". ...

Lorna Simpson is a photographer who has put together a collection of photos from the 1950s in order to challenge the idea that primary source documents are objective in their portrayal of history. Learners are introduced to Ms. Simpson's...

Students research historical figures whose contributions had a positive impact on humanity. Their charts include major events, contributions, and changes and are enhanced with drawings of monuments representing the person's life.

Students draw animals and plants that are described to them as they read passages of people who traveled across the Gila Trail in the Southwest. For this Gila Trail lesson plan, students also write a letter describing a plant or animal...

Students compare and contrast different works of Asian sculptural forms and use visual clues to analyze those works. Evaluation for this instructional activity is done on the second class day with each student creating a drawing of an...

What was the relationship like between George and Martha Washington? To protect their privacy, Martha Washington destroyed all her husband’s letters after his death so historians have little evidence of their lives together. Two letters...

Students explore geometry in Navajo culture. In this geometry lesson, students search for different geometrical shapes in Navajo art. Students then create their own rug or jewelry design using geometrical shapes.

Students examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...

Students discuss relief sculptures and examine many examples of Roman urns with relief sculptures. They consider the information these urns give us about Roman culture and then use drywall to design and create their own relief sculpture...

Students explore the artwork of the Indo-Hispanic holiday of Day of the Dead. They view images, define key vocabulary terms, and plan and create a two- and three-dimensional sculptural figure.

Learners explore the artistic works of Holocaust escapee Käthe Kollowitz. In this Holocaust art lesson, students examine the self-portraits that Kollowitz created and discuss the message in her woodcut images. Learners design their own...

Students explore wonders of the world. In this ancient civilizations activity, students create criteria for naming ancient wonders of the world and then use the criteria to evaluate wonders of world since the original list. Students...

Students explore Kathe Kollowitz and other Holocaust artists.

Students use their visualizing and interpreting skills to produce original writings and artwork.