Students investigate the dirt in the air. In this air quality activity, students use aluminum foil and petroleum jelly to discover if there is dirt in the air. Students discuss results.

First graders read a book and recognize words from the book and write sentences based on the book about language. In this language lesson plan, 1st graders also say yes and no in another language.

Students create story telling plates based on David Stabley's technique. They incorporate art history and aesthetics with hands on activity.

Students create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations. In this artwork lesson plan, students explore cameras, poems, and other art forms to understand line, light, and other attributes that contribute to artwork.

Students create collages based on Juan Quick-to-See Smith's "Ode to Chief Seattle." In this shapes, symbols and Native American activity, students examine the "Ode to Chief Seattle" and Henri Matisse's cutout work. Students design their...

Learners are sent on a scavenger hunt to find as many plants as they can in nature.

For this Leoš Janáèek and sinfonietta worksheet, students read about the Czechoslovakian composer and about sinfonietta in this 1 page worksheet and respond to 2 short answer questions.

Learners examine and create artwork. In this visual arts lesson plan, students examine the motif present in "Camels and Pyramids." Learners design their own motifs that they incorporate into a painted and stenciled piece.

Students use a dicut machine to do block printing on fabric. In this fabric lesson plan, students draw, carve, and print onto blocks for this art project.

Students create a quilt-like fabric swatches using Crayograph crayons, emery paper and rubbing plates.

Young scholars demonstrate how colors are mixed and how repetition, unity, and emphasis are used when creating a colorful collage.

Pupils create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations to celebrate their Open Court "City Wildlife" unit.

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,...

One of the elements of music is "Texture." This site gives the definition, which basically is the relationship between melodic and harmonic.

In this third unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn how to describe the technical aspects of an artist's work by discussing elements of art and principles of design. They also look at the stylistic qualities of an artist's...

An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is the encyclopedia entry on texture and it covers types of texture, visual texture, and illusion of space.

This 12-video series examines elements of music such as melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture, and how they are used in a wide variety of music genres in cultures around the world.

A site dedicated to providing vocabulary for the elements of visual design. Includes a visual notation system for describing both the elements and attributes of art.

This resource presents a fun and interactive way to learn all about the elements of music. It offers links to information, definitions, assessments, and examples of melody, harmony and tonality, structure, tempo, metre and rhythm,...

An informative site explaining the attributes of art as well as other art terms.

This is a site created for teaching children the art of listening to music. Includes sections on the elements of music, composers, and genres with more under construction.

Did you know that your sense of hearing can determine texture? This Science Buddies science fair project has you experiment with four major eras in western music to determine the texture of the music. The Science Buddies project ideas...

Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...

A site by watercolor artist John Lovett. He describes the Elements of Art and Principles of Design and gives tips and techniques for watercolor painting and for composition.