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Visual and Performing Arts Teacher Resources

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Resource Type
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Grade
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Vocabulary Building Through Visualization of Word Meanings to Create Digital Art
54
6th - 8th
3.0/5 Stars

Use online dictionaries to define vocabulary words and create a visualization of word meanings through digital art. Middle schoolers go online to define assigned vocabulary words. They visualize the meanings of the words in photo software and create a digital art product.

Literature and Art Through Our Eyes: African-American Artists
379
3rd - Higher Ed
4.0/5 Stars

Examine the contributions of African-Americans in the worlds of art and literature. Over the course of a few days, young scholars will read and analyze a poem, a short story, and a piece of art. They complete a range of comprehension-building activities, including writing poetry based on their reflections, comparing different people groups through a graph, and creating a class mural.

Environmental Art
260
4th - 12th
3.0/5 Stars

Students create their own environmental art after the teacher shows them a variety of example and has a discussion about it. They then write an initial personal definition of environmental art.

Street Art Project
119
4th - 8th
4.0/5 Stars

Illuminate your playground with chaulk images. Young aratists use the web to research the work of Keith Haring. Groups then design their own piece of visual art and recreate their images on the school sidewalks of blacktop.

Gallery of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
29
6th - 8th
5.0/5 Stars

Art history is a wonderful topic that bridges time, context, history, and artistic expression. Help your class understand how to carefully look at an artist and his work by using this fun project. Pupils make a brochure or a price list providing biographical information on Pieter Bruegel the Elder, his works, and his artistic style. Resource links are included for each project.

Character Traits in Fables
1,686
2nd - 5th
5.0/5 Stars

Combining art, music, dance, and reading comprehension, this lesson is geared to reach all ability levels. After reading a variety of fables and discussing story elements and character traits, class members select a moral to use as the basis of their own fable about two characters, one with foibles and one without. Your fabulists then collaborate on a class mural, a music composition, and a dance which reflect the traits of characters in their stories. Document it all on a class website.

Lesson: After Nature: Dystopia and Detournement
5
9th - 12th
4.5/5 Stars

Werner Herzog's film, Lessons of Darkness is the topic of this lesson on art, politics, and culture. Learners discuss the concepts of utopia, dystopia, detournment, and Scorched Earth then compose a paper which describes dystopian reality.

Art Critic for a Day!
440
4th - 8th
4.0/5 Stars

Middle schoolers practice evaluating art by creating a research project and presentation. They use the Internet and library to discover a piece of art or artist whom they feel has an impact on the world of art. Next, they create a PowerPoint, written or oral presentation to demonstrate their knowledge of the subject they have chosen.

Art Jeopardy: Jeopardy Review Game
50
3rd - 6th
4.0/5 Stars

Art: so lovely, so enjoyable, and now a Jeopardy game. Review basic components and principles of art with this fun and colorful game. Budding artists will review color, art movements and styles, principles of design, tools, techniques, and basic terminology.

Art Books, Songs, and Activities
138
2nd - 4th
3.0/5 Stars

In conjunction with art, have your class read books, say rhymes, sing songs, go over vocabulary, and complete art activities. There are some fun activities in this resource. For instance, combine vocabulary and finger paint or paint like elephants!