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Scale Drawings of Birds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create their own copies of Phoenix Birds using a grid system.
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Playing With the Grid

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students examine works of grid art by the painter Chuck Close. They discuss the process of creating a drawing using a grid, view images of grid art, and create a grid drawing.
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Portrait and Figure Drawing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the self-portraits and figure drawings of famous artists such as Käthe Kollowitz, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt and others following their own attempts to create their expressive original drawings.
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Materials and Process

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the variety of materials an artist uses when drawing and consider the impact of the material choice. In this art analysis instructional activity, students consider the different materials used to make various drawings....
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Weave Drawing - Pencils

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars create a work of art based on a theme showing skill in pencil shading. They create a work of art showing value contrast to center of interest. They use math concepts to enlarge a composition using a grid.
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Shattered Images Value Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create cubist drawings using grids and enlargement.
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Tessellations: Geometric Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create tessellation drawings using repeating geometric shapes.
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Perceiving Place

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students observe how color creates the mood of a place, and generate sketches and drawings that capture their observations.
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Street Art And Hopscotch

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use a grid to help them draw outdoor paintings on the street of Keith Haring's work with haring people. In this painting lesson plan, students can also play a hopscotch games on their painting.
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Less is More: Realizing Mathematics Through Agriculture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study the architectural designs of different popular sites. In this math lesson, students draw a grid diagram. They explain what geodesic algorithms are used for.
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Circular "Mandala"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a nonobjective design from a magazine photo (or personal photograph) using a view finder. By using colored pencils the drawing use layers to recreate the colors in the magazine picture.
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Jean-Leon Gerome Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore works by French painter Jean-Leon Gerome. In this visual arts activity, students investigate the use of perspective in Gerome's work and then make their own drawings that feature the use of perspective.
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The Mysterious Person

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students each create a small piece of a larger picture. When assembled the final piece match a photograph of a famous individual.
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Self-Monitoring Strategies and Vocabulary Games

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Middle and high schoolers identify how to discover a word's meaning by exploring context clues and any pictures, diagrams, photographs, and charts that might be included. They continue this process with other examples and locate one on...
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New Class Museum

Lesson: An Exploration of Places and Spaces Part II

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How does your location alter or impede your movement? An interesting question posed by two artists, who work to show the restrictions of people in various landscapes. Learners analyze both exhibitions, discuss location and movement, then...
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Ocean Collage

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students re-create an image from a marine life scene. They are given a single square of the entire picture to focus on. When all squares are completed, the picture is assembled.
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Day and Night in the Desert

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students illustrate scenes showing day and nighttime activities in the desert. They include plant and animal life including predators and prey.
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How To Create A Mural

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars brainstorm ideas and come up with a concept to portray into a mural. In this painting lesson plan, students base their mural off of the work of Keith Haring.

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