Curated OER
Glaciers Leave Their Imprint
Students study various types of glaciers and the landforms they create. Working in pairs, they research a type of glacial landform and construct a calendar page illustrating and describing it. The pages be compiled to create a class...
Curated OER
Class Conservation Corps (CCC)
Students investigate how the loss of soil, a valuable natural resource, affects their lives through loss of productive land to grow food, loss of coastal land mass, and poor water quality from runoff. They design a project to keep soil...
Curated OER
How Big Is Your Landscape?
Learners explore how an organism perceives its landscape and how changes to its landscape can effect its survival. Of particular focus is the effect of urbanization and the organisms survival in the cities.
Curated OER
Three D Constellations
Students are introduced to both celestial coordinates and to the first rung on the distance determination ladder. They convert spherical coordinates to Cartesian coordinates to construct a three dimensional model of a constellation...
Curated OER
Exploring Roosevelt's New Deal Using Oral Histories from the Great Depression
Students examine the process of collecting life stories. They also look at the lives effected by The Great Depression to gain understanding of the controversial economic plan of Roosevelt.
Curated OER
A Poster is Worth a Thousand Words
Students list observations of PSA posters. They provide evidence/examples of their observations through class discussion. Students explore public health posters. They investigate historical public health campaign posters.
Curated OER
Diseases Are Real
Eleventh graders research industries that contribute to sanitation and pollution problems. They investigate the direct result of unhygienic practices including disease outbreaks or specific illnesses. They create a Power Point...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Perspective Drawing
In this lesson, students use line segments, angles, and parallel and perpendicular lines in order to create a one point perspective drawing.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Perspective Drawing Inspired by n.c. Wyeth [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The Giant,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My City, My Perspective
A instructional activity in which students create a drawing of a local architectural structure using grid and perspective lines.
California State University
A Bird's Eye View
With this lesson plan young scholars will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
Other
How to Draw and Paint: Learn to Draw
Bob Davies offers free online drawing tutorials and videos. He will demonstrate for you some basic drawing skills and how to draw a variety of different subjects including the human face.
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Mathematical Models With Applications
In this instructional activity, students use geometry software to create a two-point perspective drawing.
National Gallery of Canada
Cybermuse: Introduction to Pictorial Space
A site featuring the work of Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, and Mondrian, among others, that explores pictorial space in a composition There are lesson plans for ages 4-18, and a great section where works are juxtaposed for comparison. Use the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Explorations in American Environmental History
These lessons introduce students to historical perspectives of nature and the environment, drawing on the American Memory collections, other digital resources, readings, and writing exercises. Students examine materials in a variety of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I'm "Thumbody"
For this lesson, students create a thumb print and draw a picture of themselves around it in order to investigate differences among the students.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
For nearly a century, ten inkblots have been used as an almost mystical personality test. Long kept confidential for psychologists and their patients, the mysterious images were said to draw out the workings of a person's mind. But what...