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"ART ZOO 'Blacks in the Westward Movement', 'What Can You Do with a Portrait', and 'Of Beetles, Worms, and Leaves of Grass'"
Students study black history, examine portraits and portrait making and create their own portraits, and investigate their natural environment. This humanities activity provides a text that can be used to teach lessons in black history,...
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Art and Culture
Students compare and contrast the ways in which human figures are portrayed in rock art made by ancient Native American artists and in the drawings and paintings of historic European and American artists. They use images to identify...
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Jose Posada - Calaveras Drawings - Line
Students examine and discuss work of Mexican printmaker Jose Posada, and create drawings in the style of Posada that use current subject matter and symbols.
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Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
Art is a great way to convey or express an idea. Learners choose an idiom, draw it, and use transfer paper to create photograms. They discuss how why they chose the phrase they did, and how they expressed that idea through their drawings.
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Let's Learn About Spatial Viz!
Can you see your class working on spatial visualization? The first installment of a five-part module introduces the concept of spatial visualization and provides a 12-question diagnostic assessment to test spatial visualization skills....
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Bodies In Motion: Shapes and Gestures
Students use geometric shapes to describe body parts. In this geometry lesson plan, students use geometry vocabulary as they discuss body parts. They practice drawing bodies using shapes based on a wooden model that is poised to show...
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Creating Mood and Space in a Drawing
Students take photos of spaces that imply the figure. (Students could also pull images from magazines from the web if they do not have access to a camera.) Using the photograph as a source, make a drawing as you usually would with black...
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Handprinted Card
Learners create environmentally friendly art. In this visual arts instructional activity, students use their thumbprints to create greeting cards to send to family and friends.
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Rock art
Students study rock art they use art materials, colored photographs and rock art examples to: differentiate between symbol, petroglyph, pictograph, and rock art. They interpret rock art to illustrate its importance in the cultural...
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Ellis Wilson: An Elementary School Art Lesson
Students study the life of Ellis Wilson. They examine the use of simple shapes when drawing human figures. They examine how to incorporate pattern into a background setting.
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Odd One Out
Which of these is different? Pre-readers examine four pictures of familiar objects. Each picture has a row of images following it, and they must determine which of them is different. Once youngsters have figured it out, they circle the...
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The Body Talks
Young historians examine the gestures of human subjects represented in Mannerist, Baroque and Renaissance paintings. After they play charades and attempt to match dialogue with body language, learners create a drawing that includes...
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J. Alfred Hyperbolizes
Mermaids will sing to your class members as they engage in an activity related to T.S. Eliot's famous dramatic interior monologue. After engaging in a socratic seminar about literary devices in the poem, individuals choose one...
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Tessellations: Geometric Patterns
Students create tessellation drawings using repeating geometric shapes.
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Picture Writing
Fourth graders create symbols. In this visual arts lesson, 4th graders study cave drawings, Native American pictographs, and Aboriginal Drawings prior to creating their own communication without using words.
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Self Portraits Part 2
Sixth graders explore the concept of Cubist art. For this visual arts lesson, 6th graders examine examples of Pablo Picasso's work and they create self portraits in Cubist style.
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Shaping the View: Composition Basics
Students examine the elements of composition in various artworks. They analyze and discuss paintings, explore "The National Gallery of Art" website, identify the shape of compositions in paintings, and draw a diagram.
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Paper Bag Butterfly Puppets
Whether you're using it to tell stories, explore the letter b, or during a life science lesson plan, these butterfly puppets will be a hit. Youngsters use crayons, tissue paper, and paper bags to create butterfly puppets.
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Creativity Exercise - Describe the Sky
Scholars stretch their writing muscles with an exercise that asks them to describe the sky using similes and metaphors.
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Haring Cooperative Quilt
Students inspect visual arts by examining images on the web. In this art history lesson plan, students discuss the history of art after researching Keith Haring's work on the Internet. Students analyze the style of Haring and create a...
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Class Mural
Students discover visual arts by examining a wall mural. In this art appreciation lesson, students discuss the history of art after researching information on the Internet. Students view famous paintings which feature physical movement...
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Movement-Proportion-Greek Vase Figure Drawing
Learners begin the lesson by drawing figures doing different activities. As a class, they view artwork on Greek vases and discover how the political situations affect the drawings on the vases. They draw their own scene to place on a...
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Looking at Portraits: Literary Monuments
Students examine artworks, research literature, create drawings, and make a 3-D model for a monument to a literary figure. In this literary portrait lesson, students discuss and analyze the sculpture Study of a Monument to Alexandre...
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Visualizing: Hill Fire
Students use visualization while reading Hill of Fire. In this language arts instructional activity, students read the story and draw a picture of what they see while listening to the story. Students use manipulatives to create the...