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Art With Mrs. Filmore: 1st Grade Art Lessons

For Teachers K - 1st
This site offers a variety of art lessons that use various media. Each project includes instructions and pictures of the students' completed artwork.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: English Language Arts Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Great lesson plans spanning a wide-range of language arts-related subjects.
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Oberlin: Arts of Asia in Reach (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of 15 different lesson plans focusing on the art of Asia. Lessons that focus on a variety of different media are available for all age levels.
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Kinder Art

Kinder Art: Monet's Garden by the Sea

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A great lesson plan using oil pastels where the student looks at Monet's "Garden at Saint-Adresse," and then creates their own composition focusing on foreground, middleground and background.
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Kodak: Language Arts Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from Kodak is overflowing with lesson plans to use in your language arts classroom. Teachers from every grade level have submitted activities integrating photography into their lessons.
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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Ancient Mayan Civilization Art & Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the art and culture of the Maya civilization including history, forms of art, recent discoveries, and some art lessons. There is also a lengthy list of web resource links.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: The Elements of Art: Texture

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art, texture, by identifying different types of textures found in multiple works of art and hypothesize what materials and techniques were used to achieve that texture. Then,...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Drawing, Painting and Illustrating

For Students 9th - 10th
Artopia is an excellent art resource for students. They are able to examine important works of art, learn about styles, principles, and processes of the various art forms used in painting, drawing, and illustration, and view videos of...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson on creative expression and dance in light of the social, cultural, and political climate in Russia.
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The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Art and Exploration in the American West and Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson on the 19th Century representation through art and maps of indigenous population and territory of the American West and Mexico. Primary source documents and questions for discussion are included.
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The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Art and Exploration of the Poles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resource with lesson and primary source documents examines the connections between exploration of the North and South Poles and their visual representation.
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The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Art of Conflict: Portraying American Indians, 1850 to 1900

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson uses digitized primary source material to examine the portrayal of American Indians in art between 1850 and 1900. Classroom activities and questions for discussion included.
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Form Swift: Common Core Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Three, customizable Common Core lesson plan templates educators can create and fill out for math, science, and language arts.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Graphic Design Course

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from Artlex is a lesson plan for a secondary level graphic design class designed by Michael Delahunt. There are many projects including: Designing a poster; Altering a photo; Photoshop Tricks; studying Logos; Designing logos;...
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Kodak: Social Studies Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This Kodak site has twelve lesson plans submitted by teachers from every grade level. Each activity integrates photography into the lesson.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts Curriculum

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An extremely well put together site full of information about the decorative arts, specifically the French decorative arts from about 1660 to 1790. Contains history, lesson plans, and even an image bank.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Teaching About Auschwitz Through Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examining art from the Holocaust helps us to deepen our understanding of the Holocaust and view it as a human experience. You do not need to be an expert in the field of art to use it in the classroom. This site will give you guidelines...
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Curriki: "Beautiful Art" Cultural Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed to give students a conceptual understanding of cultural diffusion and the notion that ideas change people and people change ideas. It involves a teacher demonstration, student role-play, and an activity that...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With this leasson plan, students will learn about prominent African American artist William H. Johnson and his influence both on the history of art and black American culture. Select a link for the desired grade level version of this...
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Teach With Movies: Lesson Plans Based on Shorts and Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Links to many video-clip based lessons in the areas of health, English language arts & drama, mathematics, music, biology, earth science, inventions, astronomy, physics, chemistry, U.S. history and culture, and world history and...
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California State University

Egyptian Cartouche Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Introduce elementary young scholars to ancient Egyptian art through this fun clay lesson. Students study hieroglyphics and make cartouches with their names inscribed.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for three 50-minute lessons that ask students to use the writing process to write about a piece of visual art. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explores the scaring methods employed by Gothic literature and ghost stories. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Text and Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine the work of artist Barbara Kruger and consider how visual media, such as in print and advertising, can be constructed to influence viewers' perceptions and behaviors. Students will create their own works of art...

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