Curated OER
Honor Your Special Qualities
Students view different sculptures from artist Ronald Baron. They discuss what the sculpture depicts. They are to create a thank you trophy for someone they know. They are to focus on that person's special qualities.
Curated OER
Fall Reflections
Students create a multi-media landscape of a tree in fall color. They use the Y-method of drawing a tree.
Curated OER
Easy Bias-Covered Curves
Students watch a demonstration on how to make easy-bias covered curves. Using that information, they practice making their own with different types of materials. They share their creations with the class to end the lesson.
Curated OER
Nurturing Green Thumbs at School
Incorporating a school garden into the curriculum cultivates many benefits.
Crayola
Crayola All About Adjectives and Alliteration
This lesson plan (for students age 4 and up) from the Crayola website, incorporates phonics, adjectives, and visual arts. Students make "Rubbings," with crayons while discovering adjectives that begin with the same letter. Provides...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Texture
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is the encyclopedia entry on texture and it covers types of texture, visual texture, and illusion of space.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Line
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is from the artist's toolkit encyclopedia and includes information on types of lines, edge and outline, expressive line,...