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Camera Shots

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Understanding how visual codes such as long-shots, close-ups, and camera angles affect meaning helps prepare young filmmakers to plan their own productions. The concepts embedded could also be used to analyze photographs and paintings.
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Schools of the Past and Present

For Teachers 1st
First graders take a look at schools of the past and present, and try to conjure an idea of what schools of the future will look like. After taking a walk around their own school and taking note of the buildings and the things that are...
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Van Gogh Sunflowers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Add a little texture to your next art project with an activity inspired by Van Gogh's Sunflowers. The art project is collage-based and uses ripped paper and glue to create highly textural versions of Van Gogh's famous painting. A...
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Atmospheric Perspective Watercolor Painting

For Teachers 6th - 10th
How do artists create the illusion of depth and distance on a flat surface? Young landscape painters explore techniques like color saturation and detail placement that create atmospheric perspective.
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Art with Colored Shaving Cream

For Teachers K
Students "paint" with colored shaving cream.
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Exploring Local Architecture

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students study architecture through the mediums of sketching and painting. In this art and architecture lesson, students sketch an example of architecture and then paint over the sketch in detail.
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SKYDYES

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use fabric they have created in their quilts. Unlike dyeing and marbling, hand-painting fabric with Setacolor textile paints is not messy, not toxic, and the serendipitous results make every student feel like an artist!
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Matisse Face Masterpiece

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students examine the painting Purple Robe and Woman with Hat by Matisse. They explore how he used bold strokes of color in the face of the woman. Students paint their partners' faces using the same techniques that were used by Matisse.
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Marc Chagall

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the characteristics of the artwork of Marc Chagall. They paint a Chagall-like picture
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Suitcase, Parfleche and 'Isaptakay

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore farfeche and how the Nez Perce people use natural materials to derive colors for their artwork. They explore traditional paints and dyes used by the Nez Perce and create their own parfleche 'isaptakay.
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Michaelangelo Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students play the game, "Reading a Painting" to review social studies facts. They read a painting of a particular time period trying to determine clues to remember facts. They work in teams to identify the time, place, and important...
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San Francisco, Ahoy!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders analyze paintings that share a common theme of San Francisco as seen by some of the first travelers who arrived there. In this art history lesson plan, 5th graders consider the experiences involved with the arrival to a new...
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Sea Urchins - Diadema Antillarum

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils investigate oceanography by painting sea life. In this crustacean lesson, students identify sea urchins in our ocean environments and describe the functionality of their spherical-shaped bodies. Pupils design their own sea urchins...
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Stop the Violence

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine and discuss various artworks by Keith Haring. They design and create a Keith Haring style painting that communicates a message about an important social issue.
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Creating Cultural Movement Weblets to Analyze a Culture's Impact on Its Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore nature of cultural movements in Western Civilization since the 18th Century by examining various styles of painting, and analyzing impact of culture on its forms of artistic expression. Students then create imitative...
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Pebble Pictures

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create "pebble" paintings using rocks found at the beach, or purchased from a store, in this multi-level Art lesson. The lesson can easily be incorporated into a unit on painting and adds another dimension to ordinary artwork.
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City Wildlife in a Vase

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine a still-life painting. They discuss the observation of nature by scientists and artists and explore the symbolism of biological life cycles depicted in a painting.
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Paste Papers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students combine acrylics with School Smart Art Paste to paint paper and to explore color mixing.
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Dress-up to the Olde Masters

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine paintings. Wearing costumes, students imitate a scene from a great painting. Students create a story and a series of scenes that demonstrate the painting. Students act out a series of scenes from the story they created.
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New Visions of the World

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the art of Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian as an analysis of abstract painting. In this abstract painting lesson, students explore the painting style of the two artists. Students analyze the use of shape, line,...
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Hip To Be Square

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore performing arts by reading a children's book in class. In this body movement lesson, students read the book Dance and create their own artistic impressions based on dancing images from the book. Students share their...
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Reading Stories in Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study how artists tell stories using visual images by identifying and comparing elements of narrative (setting, characters, and plot) in a painting and a Greek vase.
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Snowy Night Snaps

For Teachers K
Students use misprinted photographs donated from a photo processing company to create paintings of a snowy landscape at night.
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How to Hold a Watercolor Brush

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice holding a water color paint brush correctly. In this watercolor lesson, students feel the way a balance paint brush is supposed to feel in their hands. Students then practice painting various shapes to master the...

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