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Reading Paintings, Drawing Words

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider an art exhibit comprised of words that tell stories and create their own original pieces of art.
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Simon Edwards Watercolor Lesson Techniques Resource Pack

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the art of watercolor while discovering specific techniques used to create color. In this watercolor techniques lesson, students examine a variety of sample watercolor arrangements, practice the steps involved in...
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Blick Liquid Watercolor

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore the use of watercolors in the making of paintings that incorporate the use of shapes and overlapping them into new ones. The skills of using positive and negative space is strengthened as they are applied in these...
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Artist in Schools Program

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the medium of watercolor paints. They observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry). Then students experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercolor paper.
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Line and Expression - 2D

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use the same line and shape techniques that Keith Haring used in his paintings to paint Haring people. In this painting lesson plan, students create lines to represent emotions.
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Sunflowers a la VanGogh

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view two VanGogh Sunflower reproductions, analyze differences in color and background between two, identify parts of sunflower, including stem and petals, and paint their own sunflowers using tempera paint.
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Bearden Art-Making Workshop

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are able to create their own collages using some of the same kinds of images and materials Bearden used. They put to use some of the Bearden techniques they observed in the reproduction/slide lecture and explore to...
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"Live Out Loud" Celebrates Pride Week

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate human relationships by creating oil paintings in class. In this gay pride instructional activity, students discuss why the Pride parade is so important, who appears at the parade and how art is used to spread...
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Painting Pictures with Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners develop their own smilies and metaphors. They examine writing of the Poet Laureate. They identify philanthropy in quotations of others.
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Andy Warhol and Silkscreen Pop Art

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore art history by researching famous paintings on-line. For this Andy Warhol lesson, students discuss who Warhol was, his impact on popular art and methods of painting. Young scholars examine his use of silk screen...
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Composition from a Visual Model

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students view image of famous artwork, collectively create story about what they see in image, discuss how color and texture could be used to paint picture with music, view second image, and write individual short stories about picture. ...
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Transforming Fairy Tales - Lesson 5: Creating a character template

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a character template for their fairy tale. In this character lesson, 2nd graders using the Paint program on the computer to create their character. They use this character throughout their pictures without needing...
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The Burning of the Peggy Stewart

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students examine a painting titled, "The Burning of the Peggy Stewart," and discuss its significance.
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Kwanzaa Gift

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students celebrate Kwanzaa. In this Kwanzaa activity, students create gifts that are handmade. Students use buttons, ribbon, paint, construction paper and glue to create gifts.
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Spring Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create Spring butterflies. In this art activity, students use coffee filters to make butterflies. Students add food coloring and water together for paint. Students use an eyedropper to drop the colors onto the filter. Allow the...
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Keith Haring Posters

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers observe visual art by utilizing the Internet in class. In this Keith Haring lesson, students define the art which Haring has created over the years and examine previous art work online. Middle schoolers complete...
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Word Art

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this word art learning exercise, students color or paint the pictures of life experiences through language bubbles. Students complete 14 problems.
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Still Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compose a three-dimensional still life composition in a shoe box, sketch portions of their work and then design a painting based on the finished box. They complete and critique their paintings.
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Fantasy Creature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers, in groups, create three-dimensional sculptures from found objects. They paint their sculptures and write essays that reflect on the collaborative creative project.
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Texture With Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore the use of different textures in watercolor paintings in this late-elementary lesson. Emphasis is placed upon the art element of texture using the science of chemical reaction. The lesson includes one possible extension.
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Reverse Glass "Painting"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the life and works of John Audubon. They compare and contrast various pieces of art and identify the purposes of stained glass. After observing his art, they create their own stained glass creation using the concepts...
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Paper Pulp Painting

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students draw an animal on a white piece of paper and add a background of leaves or flowers. They color the drawings and rip up construction paper that is the same color as the colors they chose for their drawings. They turn the...
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How to "read" a painting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students follow a structured method of critiquing an art work to discover its substance and meaning. They apply four distinct steps to critique a painting which are: describe, analyze, interpret, and judgment.
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Crafts, From Gallery to Classroom: Landscape Painting with James Palmersheim

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create their own landscape paintings. Students will learn various techniques to create an effective foreground, middleground, and background.

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