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Elementary Art Lesson Plans
Find teacher approved Elementary Art lesson plan ideas and activities
Learners create art projects with different purposes--for personal expression, for theater, and for historical presentations. This site contains several highly creative plans which can be modified for different needs and grade levels.
Fifth graders photograph examples of the five elements of art: line, shape, color, pattern, and composition.
Students explore how copyright and trademark laws impact art. After researching cases on the topic, students use and existing postcard as the basis for a new piece of art.
Students examine pictures of owls in order to create their own. In this art instructional activity, students design their own owls using three separate types of patterns. Finally, the students share their images and complete a worksheet about owls.
Students examine geometric shapes. For this geometry lesson, students study the art in the video clip of "Hip Cat." Students draw shapes and non-geometric shapes of their own invention.
Fifth graders create their own morphes in the computer lab emphasizing lines and color and explain them. For this art lesson plan, 5th graders base their creations on the work of Keith Haring.
Students use a timeline to measure intervals and calculate the age of works of art.
Students develop the art of storytelling by writing a story for a wordless book. In this storytelling lesson, students create an oral story for a wordless book. They write and publish the story to share with the school community.
Students explore the work of Ruth Asawa. In this visual arts lesson, students watch a video segment about artist Ruth Asawa, study images of her sculptures, and create their own woven sculptures.
Fifth graders compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures, specifically the primitive cave art of 15,000 b.c. with aboriginal art of Australia. They create a contemporary "bark painting" based on the Aboriginal "dreamings" and in the style of the cave artists and aboriginal people.
