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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Art Research Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Search the library catalog for any topic in art and you can bet the National Gallery of Art has some information on it. Start here for your artistic research needs!
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University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Northern Research Portal: "Art and Artists" Exhibit

For Students 9th - 10th
The Inuit and First Nations people tended to express their culture and history through artistic expression. Highlighted is the various art forms and artists of these people and especially the Northern region of Canada. Included are...
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Small Publishers, Artists & Writers Network

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the Small Publishers, Artists & Writers Network homepage: "This site offers you information on writing and publishing. It also offers links to research sources, publishers, printers, and the media."
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Microsoft Research: Fuse Labs: Kodu Game Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Using an artistic visual language, Kodu helps students create a world and an actual video game within that world. Learn basic coding and programming principles. Download the game lab or teacher lesson plans for free.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
In this 9-12 lesson plan, young scholars will create original artwork demonstrating the style of an early 20th-century artist of the Mexican Revolution. They will research how art was influenced or created in response to major events,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Artists Behind the Polychrome Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of an extensive research effort by the J. Paul Getty Museum into the design and construction of the polychrome sculpture Saint Gines de la Jara, researchers made an important distinction in identifying not just the artist who...
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California Academy of Sciences

California Academy of Sciences: Native Alaskan Graphic Arts: Founding Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
This colorful article portrays four Alaskan artists who became known for their drawings of traditional lifeways in Alaska. Near the bottom of the site, click on the name of an artist to learn lots more about each of them.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Are Artists Good Neighbors?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading the picture book When Pigasso Met Mootisse by Nina Laden, students will research an artist with a unique style. Students will partner with another student who's artist has a different style. Students will pretend their two...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Vasari Lives of the Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
This wonderful site from the Fordham University indexes selections from the great writer Vasari and his major work on the lives of Renaissance artists. The text is translated into English and a bibliograpy is provided for further research.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Art History Learning Stools [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will learn about the art that documents our world via art history, genres, and master artists. They will select an era or artist that inspires them, research it, and create an artwork using collage, painting and drawing...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Three Ways to Make a Scene

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will analyze landscapes by three artists. After learning about the horizon line, they will create their own painted and collaged landscapes inspired by one of the artists.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: How Observant Are You?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pop artists of the 1960s encouraged people to look more closely at the everyday objects around them. How observant are your students? This lesson plan focuses on observation, memory, and home and classroom environments.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography

For Teachers 9th - 10th
John Pfahl used creativity, strategic placement of objects, changing vantage points, and a sense of humor to create his Altered Landscape series of photographs. Students will learn about his artist statements and methods and then create...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Can It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pop artists used consumer products, advertising, and popular culture icons as the major source for subject matter in their art. Between 1962 and 1967, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, both individually and in groups. 100 Cans is one of the...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Experiencing Video Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will become familiar with the artist Kelly Richardson and her video work Twilight Avenger, 2008, and create a connection with Twilight Avenger through art, literature, and technology.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Natural Materials

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn that artists like David Nash use natural materials such as wood to create works of art that incorporate principles of design such as balance, repetition, rhythm, and unity. They will collect their own natural...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tribute to an Artist and His/her Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by both a song (sung by Don McLean) about Van Gogh as well as a poem written by Tupac Shakur, young scholars will be inspired to research an artist with an interesting life and style of work. Students will research the artist...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Painting in the Style of a Famous Artist

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, student groups will research and create PowerPoint presentations of famous painters. Individually, each student will select an artist and create an original work emulating the style and techniques of that artist.
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Cengage Learning

Themes, Perspectives and Issues/edwin Arlington Robinson

For Students 9th - 10th
In depth site including comparisons, contrasts, form, style and artistic conventions. Great research site!
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "The Passion of Artemisia" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Author's self-written, 9-page teacher guide for "The Passion of Artemisia" provides suggested scenes for reading aloud, class discussion topics, collaborative research topics, writing activities, and background information about Baroque...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 3: La Diversion

For Students 9th - 10th
In this third unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about Spanish art. They investigate El Greco and use a whiteboard tool to create a painting in El Greco's style. They present and research information about other...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: The Guess Who

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed history of one of the most successful and well-known Canadian music bands of all-time, The Guess Who. The article discusses the history and the cultural influences of the band in great depth. Links to other related articles...
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Getty Vocabularies Editorial Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th
These documents contain information about editorial practice for the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), and the Cultural Objects Name Authority...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Art Show With the Masters (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan takes learners through the process of researching the life and work of well-known artists, of creating paintings based on the styles of those artists, and of staging an exhibition of their finished pieces. Contains an...

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