Search Over 150,000 Teacher Reviewed Lesson Plans and 75,000 Worksheets
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating

Students become immersed in analyzing the influences on and development of an artistic paradigm; they also move into, through and beyond the literary piece. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 12th
- Rating

Students describe ways which trees have been used in urban settings, their aesthetic value, the ways in which they affect air pollution and noise reduction, and how trees benefit the wildlife in an urban area. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Higher Ed
- Rating

Students identify different types of decorative arts objects and their functions. They investigate the difference between aesthetic uses and functional uses. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
- Rating

Students create a miniature Japanese garden that incorporates the elements of traditional Japanese aesthetics. They study the simplicity, asymmetrical design and incorporate traditional structures. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 10th
- Rating

Students discover how Shaker values and ideology shaped their way of life, and how the artifacts they produced continue to influence our ideals of beauty. Students apply the Shaker designs to their own inventions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
- Rating

Students describe how graffiti is a part of everyday culture. They develop basic vocabulary terms for thinking and writing about graffiti and make and justify judgments about aesthetics qualities in graffiti art. They compare and contrast specific works of Basquiat in graffiti, and how graffiti played a major role in his art style. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
- Rating

Students examine aesthetics using existing and student-created program music. They describe music, propose meanings in music and defend their descriptions and propositions.They also describe and defend music and visual arts representations of subject matter that are not from the arts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
- Rating

Students review the elements of music. They develop criteria for evaluating music and apply that criteria to music selections. Students gain a basic understanding of the word "aesthetic" by studying programmatic and absolute music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating

Students explore traditional music of different societies around the world by listening to number of different musical recordings, discuss how music makes them feel, examine how music is central to cultural traditions, and compose short written responses. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
- Rating

Students identify the social climate that created the terms Degenerative Art and Fascist Aesthetic. They also identify how and why certain artists' artwork fell into these categories. Students recognize and discuss the Expressionist styles and techniques of Kokoschka and his contemporaries. Finally, students create a self-portrait based on both Kokoschka's artistic and aesthetic goals and the stylistic techniques. Full Review »

