Fourth graders explore the artistic ideas of landscape, foreground, middle ground, and background through a creative painting project. While this is written for North Carolina, teacher may adapt for any state/region.

Students research how children dressed during Colonial times. Students design and create life-sized likenesses of themselves, dressing the paper dolls in colonial dress.

Students follow directions to draw a map of an island. They complete the island map adding their own details using symbols and a legend.

Middle schoolers create a multimedia piece that integrates drawing and collage. Students learn about metacognition and the discovering of self through genres of art and literature by using these steps: inspiration, brainstorm,...

Young scholars study Japan and explore the use of screens.

Young scholars use plaster of Paris, talc, and cornstarch to create their own chalk. They hypothesize what mixture of ingredients produce the "best" chalk. Students discuss what they think are the characteristics of the "best" chalk.

First graders compare seeds and explore how they are carried through the environment.

Students examine African masks and headdresses, and create their own.

Students review and discuss a variety of sayings, folklore and superstitions about spiders. They discuss this information and choose either an interesting fact or appealing foklore tradition to illustrate.

Students explore how national parks are created, operate and benefit society by creating a new national park for their state.

What a simple way to create a book of any kind. Would be a great design to display art or writing samples. Anyone can do it!

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Joseph Binder in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.

The listing of Mexican artists, artisans, authors, and art makes it easy to "pick and choose." Oodles of information here.