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Symbols to Sculptures
Students take a 2 dimensional drawing and make it into a 3 dimensional form. In this art lesson plan, students base their work off of Keith Haring, and view slides and a video of other 3D art.
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Canvas Transformations
Learners transform the content of paintings currently in the collection hanging in the Utah Fine Arts Museum by using the four theatre techniques of storytelling, kinetics images, soundscapes, and ritual building.
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Can You See It?
Learners explore the concept of visualization and how it works to help them comprehend what they read. They read 'Tuck Everlasting' and visualize what has happened in the story. They draw a picture of what they visualized and then watch...
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Showing Depth
Fourth graders examine and demonstrate how to create a middle ground, background, and foreground on a picture or work of art. They identify middle ground, background, and foreground on Michael Sowa's works of art, then create their own...
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And Then What Happened?
Students analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts instructional activity, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Students use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of...
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Granary Door Dogon, Mali
Students explore a creation myth. In this visual arts lesson plan, students discuss the Dogon creation myth and the design and make refrigerator magnets in the style of Dogan granary doors. The design of the magnets should include linear...
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Design-A-Room
Students employ art as a means of communication. The meaning of the communication comes out in the design of a unique room that is 3 dimensional. The use of the imagination is encouraged as well as visualization skills.
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Making a Movie in our Mind
Students participate in visualization exercises to create mental pictures as they read. They discuss silent reading techniques, and observe the teacher modeling how to visualize the beginning of the book Pippi Longstocking. In pairs they...
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Can You See It?
Fourth graders practice visualizing elements from a story. While reading the poem "One Inch Tall" aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a picture of a scene from the story "Everything on a...
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Use Your Imagination: Reading to Learn
Students examine the process of visualization as a means of comprehending what happens in a story. They read a chapter in a novel, visualize what happened in their mind and then draw a picture of what they visualized. They write two...
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Open the Doors to Imagination
Students practice visualizing what they read and hear in a text. They listen to selected passages from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe read by the instructor. Students discuss the visual pictures they see when listening to the...
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Seeing is Believing
Students participate in a visualization exercise and explore the concept of visualization and how it works. They read from the book, 'Freckle Juice' and try to visualize what is happening so far. They draw the main character in the way...
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Picture This!
Learners practice visualizing images as they read text to help improve their comprehension skills. The teacher models a visualizing technique, and the passes out two poems for the students to read silently. The class creates a Venn...
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Create a Video Poem
Collaborate to create a visual version of a poem using video. Before class, choose a poem to pick apart. Read it aloud and then analyze it in detail as a class. Assign a line or short section to each student to expand upon using a...
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Tin Can Telephone
Students make telephones. In this visual arts instructional activity, students follow the provided steps to create their own tin can telephones.
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Earth Day Theme Activities
Students make recycled animals. In this Earth Day lesson, students use recycled materials to create artistic animals. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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1.2.3. Click! I See It!
Young scholars listen as the teacher reads the poem 'I Wish I Could Meet the Man That Knows' by John Ciardi. They share what they visualized as the teacher read the poem. They practice reading the book "Frindle" silently while creating...
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What Do You See?
Students practice visualizing elements from a poem or story. While reading a poem aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a picture of the main character of the story "Because of Winn-Dixie"...
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Tin Relief
Students create a sun tin relief sculpture. In this Mexican art lesson plan, students incorporate line and form into a relief sculpture that they create of the sun.
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Descriptive Character Analysis
Students visualize a character or event and personalize it through drawings.
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Citizenship
Students reflect on characteristics of good citizens, examine democratic symbolism, create an award and choose an individual to receive the award as part of this lesson plan on citizenship. Lesson ties together social studies, language...
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The Continents and Oceans of the World
Students explore world mapping skills. In this world geography lesson, students identify and label the continents and oceans on a world map using the Visual Thesaurus. Students generate mnemonic devices to help memorize these terms.
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Pattern Value Portraits with Light
Students use the elements of art and principles of design to explore value. In this color value lesson plan, students use the portrait of a a face to help them understand color value, tints, shades and tones.
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Quick and Easy Tie-Dye
Students create their own tie-dye shirts. In this visual arts instructional activity, students take shirts and wrap a rubber band around a few small areas. They dot these areas with sharpies and then blend them together with rubbing...
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