Students solve the mystery of which painting they are reproducing by sketching. They determine the mood and imagery in artwork.

Students create a work of art using specific color scheme guidelines studied previously. State standards for the arts are addressed in this six day lesson plan for the high school art class.

Students explore how art reflects culture and history. They examine everyday life experiences in various countries. Students design a mixed media composition. They create a class presentation.

Students observe the art of Henri Matisse and discuss the ideas and feelings his art brings about. In this Henri Matisse lesson plan, students look at many of his artistic paintings and discuss and write in a journal the point of view...

Students examine the interconnectedness of different art forms. They listen to music and watch a video while determining the similarities of the themes. They make connections between books, movies, opera, dance, and music.

Students create oil pastel landscape paintings in this middle-level Art lesson on perspective, horizons, foreground, background, and middle ground. The lesson includes resource links to books on teaching art and perspective.

Young scholars create an original Cinquain (five-line poem) and choreograph movement to their poem, performing movement for class and video. This lesson addresses standards in the arts and requires a video recorder.

Students sketch a design based on "The Night Chanter." In this art design lesson, students listen to the Native American prayer, "The Night Chanter" and illustrate their personal vision of the chant. Students critique the sketches and...

Students, with the use of the Internet among various other resources, research/locate Polish folktales and re-tell the Polish folktales in their own words. In addition, they examine the art of Wycinanki, Polish paper cutting.

Young scholars review a previous ceramics instructional activity and journal about a personal clay vessel they will create. In this ceramics instructional activity, students recognize various ceramic forms...

Students transform the content of paintings currently in the collection hanging in the Utah Fine Arts Museum by using the four theatre techniques of storytelling, kinetics images, soundscapes, and ritual building.

Learners create sunflower paintings using pastels, pencils, and construction paper in this Art instructional activity for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on the artwork of Vincent van Gogh and the book Camille and the...

Fifth graders participate in visualization exercises in order to improve their reading comprehension. As a class they listen to the teacher describe a setting and visualize the details, then read the first chapter of the book "Holes" by...

Students re-create an image from a marine life scene. They are given a single square of the entire picture to focus on. When all squares are completed, the picture is assembled.

Students practice the skill of visualization to process the benefits of reading text without pictures. They must master visualizing in their minds what the words are stating on the pages of a text. Each student receives a copy of "The...

Young scholars review the concept of silent reading and the visualization method used to remember details. After reading a section of "Frindle" by Andrew Clements, they stop and tell what they "saw" happen. They read other chapters and...

Pupils practice using visualization to aid in their reading comprehension. After a read aloud of a selected story, students write a brief summary of the plot accompanied by an illustration of the characters they have visualized.

Pupils practice their reading comprehension by utilizing computers. For this education technology lesson, students utilize a drawing program such as Microsoft Paint to draw pictures based upon the story they read, The Very Quiet Cricket....

Pupils investigate cause and effect and compare and contrast how recurring cycles are evident in multiple aspects of their education. They answer questions in the chosen field. Students model each aspect by interpreting, perceiving and...

Students explore the traits of ladybugs. In this ladybug lesson, students read books, sing songs, and learn fingerplays about ladybugs. Students also create their own ladybugs.

Students create a drawing of a flower using Georgia O'Keeffe as their inspiration, then develop skills in drawing and composition. They explain the difference between realistic and abstract.

Young scholars create original works of art using their knowledge of Georgia O'Keeffe's artwork, flowers, pencils, crayons, and pastels in this K-6 Art instructional activity. The instructional activity includes Georgia O'Keeffe...

Students play "To Tell The Truth" Art History style in this fun and interactive game for the upper-elementary Art classroom. Included in the lesson is a detailed set of rules and suggestions for successful classroom implementation.

Students create "love bug bags" using pink pipe cleaners, construction paper, glue, glitter or sand, and a lunch sack in this Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. This can be used in the Springtime or as a Valentine's Day...