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Jose' Clemente Orozco

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze the art of Mexican artist Jose' Clemente Orozco and complete analysis activities. In this Mexican art analysis lesson, students read about Orozco's Zapatistas and answer discussion questions.
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Geometric Relatioships

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore measurements and geometric formulas. In this geometry instructional activity, students investigate pi as it relates to geometry. They collect data and use a chart to organize the data.
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Text as Texture Collage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concepts of rhythm, movement, contrast and texture. They practice using new vocabulary and work on creating a college after designing the arrangement. They self-evaluate their collage and critique their classmates...
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Word/Picture Associations

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this mathematical worksheet, students read each word, decide which image refers back to each word and then colors in the correct image for each word.
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Paper Bag Puppets

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils create "paper bag puppets" using basic art supplies, construction paper, and their imagination in this awesome early-elementary Art activity. The instructional activity includes a resource link and suggests teaching a short...
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Lady Liberty

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students discussed symbolism, freedom and the Statue of Liberty. They explored Keith Haring's style. They used colored markers, color, and line to draw a Statue of Liberty.
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Collaborative Collage - A Lesson in Creative Chaos

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Pupils examine the works of abstract and collage artists. They explore alternate methods of paint application that reinforce the elements of rhythm and movement and create collages based on these principles.
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VH1 Fan Club ABBA Lesson 1

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study the relationship between trends and individual tastes in music. They use musical terms to describe the elements of different styles of music.
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Cut-Out Figures

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students trace and color their figures, cut them out, and put them up on the wall much like a Keith Haring painting looks. In this self portrait lesson plan, students then try to match the figures to each of their classmates.
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Creative Color Wheel

For Students K - 2nd
For this color theory worksheet, students draw a large circle on a piece of paper and make six shapes evenly spaced around the circle. Students color the wheel according to the directions. This worksheet is geared toward adults who will...
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Dango

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discuss lines, shapes, patterns, and colors used in Jun Kaneko's piece Untitled (Dango). In groups, they help make a paper Mache replica and demonstrate their understanding of lines, shapes patterns, and colors by painting their...
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Artsy Insects

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify and describe the elements of art and principles of design by creating several different butterfly pictures that represent color, shape, texture, pattern or symmetry.
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Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
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Blotter Bugs

For Teachers K
Pupils work with primary colors. They choose two primary colors, then put two drops of each color they chose on a white square paper. They fold the white paper in half and rub the paint around.
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Painting Like an Impressionist

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate knowledge of the Impressionist style by showing complementary colors, a variety of types of brushstrokes, and a specific time of day or weather condition.
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Color Tiles

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word shape worksheet, students use the color word key to help them fit the word inside the tiles. Students spell the words ebony, purple, chartreuse, yellow, red, mahogany, maroon, turquoise, amber, and pewter.
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Ideational Stimuli With Color

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students make a creation using colored construction paper. They produce and express a correlation between their particular creation and different qualities of movement by transferring their feelings and/or emotions into a movement...
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Huichol Yarn Painting

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study the Huichol Indians and the art of yarn painting. They create their own yarn paintings in the Huichol style.
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. For this word wall lesson, students...
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Picasso Portraits

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Explore Pablo Picasso. For this art history and face drawing lesson plan, read a brief biography of Pablo Picasso. Draw a self portrait following guided instruction by the teacher.  Paint a self-portrait and practice adding white...
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Geometric Abstraction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an abstract work of art that is made by repeating geometric shapes and lines, write concise instructions to reproduce the work of art and reproduce someone else's artwork via written instructions.
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Street Cows

For Teachers K - 4th
A light, and humorous instructional activity on "street cows" is here for you. Learners listen to the story, "Street Cows," which is embedded in the plan. On a map of the US and the World, they locate the cities where the "Cows on...
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Scavenger Hunt: Creature Features

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this animal/science worksheet, students participate in a scavenger hunt to locate a variety of animals with different shapes, sizes and colors found in a zoo.
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Grouping Buttons

For Teachers K
Looking for a good lesson on counting and sorting? This lesson is worth a look! In this classification lesson, learners sort buttons by color, shape, shiny verses not shiny, or number of holes.

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