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Popular Culture

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the period of Belle Epoque and the methods of art that signified popular culture. In this art analysis lesson, students consider the ways popular culture influenced art by analyzing the images and completing image based...
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Serial Forms/Material Difference

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze pop art and discuss artists' choices for materials, line, color, and scale. In this art analysis lesson, students consider artists' choices and compare works. Students make a two or three dimensional work of art using...
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Performance into Art

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore two works of art of performance art. In this performance art lesson, students analyze performance art in the examples of Yves Klein and Joseph Beuys. Students complete image based discussion activities. Students research...
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Innovations in Media

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze Pablo Picasso's art. In this Picasso art analysis lesson, students define collage and analyze Picasso's work in different mediums. Students complete image based discussion activities. Students use found objects to create...
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African Mask

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students research the importance of masks to the African culture.  In this African mask lesson, students design original masks using a variety of materials.  Students use the template provided to create their masks.
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Stone Figurines

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze visual arts by examining images on the Internet. In this figurine instructional activity, students research Keith Haring's artwork on the web and identify his body movement artistic style. Students utilize soft stones,...
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Tall Tales Folded Envelope Book

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars create a book using art, problem solving and language skills. They illustrate and write a tall tale. They sculpt a character from their tall tale.
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Frederic Remington

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the life and work of artist Frederic Remington. They point out the horizon in his paintings and draw a horse.
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Cracked Marbles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders determine how weathering, specifically ice, snow, and freezing water change the Earth's surface and rocks. After completing the investigations, they explain how heating and cooling expand and contract marbles until cracks...
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Solid Waste and Recycling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit of lessons, students examine solid waste and recycling. They discover how litter is a major part of human waste. They also collect newspaper for recycling.
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Everyday Objects as Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interpret works of art by Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp.
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Portrait and Figure Drawing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners practice their drawing skills. In this drawing skills activity, students complete a self-observation drawing activity and then 3 methods of figure drawing.
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Cool Coral Reefs

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners identify, color and label the continents of the world and the equator. They identify and produce water temperature between 74 and 78 degrees. They identify and discuss the term polyps and construct a colony of polyps.
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Remembrance Through Art

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners examine the design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. They assess art's role in history. They demonstrate their knowledge by planning a memorial for a public space.
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Tennis Ball Prints

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students experiment using abstract art techniques, tennis balls, and tempera paint in this excellent, outdoor art activity for the early-elementary classroom. The resulting art prints can be displayed predominantly in the classroom.
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Portrait of a Ruler

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create a full-length portrait of the Emperor Hadrian that conveys his role through attributes and explain how this bust of Hadrian conveys a story about life as an emperor in ancient Rome.
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People at Work

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners observe people at work. They create their own drawings of those people at their jobs.
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Who are Artists and Illustrators?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study artists and their styles. They create a Kidspiration web as they discuss art work looking at shapes, texture and color. They list other things that they would like to explore artists.
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Be A Curator -- Have an Art Show

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils examine the role of an art curator. They use any artwork they have done throughout the year and create an art show. They create an invitation to hand out to parents.
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"For The Birds" [part II]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine how Chinese and Japanese artists used different kinds of birds as representations of ideas that were important in both cultures and create their own birds using the technique of origami.
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Rice Wreaths

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create rice and glue holiday wreaths in this Art lesson ideal for the 1st or 2nd grade. The lesson can be adapted for older or younger students and includes an ingredient list and step-by-step directions for siccessful...
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Art Smart

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners consider the importance of arts programs in public schools, explore the disparities in arts programs in the New York City school system.
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PEBBLE PICTURES

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners paint pebbles to look like people, fish, butterflies, or birds. They glue to a background.
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Emily Carr's Trees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore flowing lines and form

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