In a time of fake news, media manipulation, and Internet trolls, a resource equips learners with the tools they need to recognize and combat resources that are designed to appeal to our cognitive biases. Introduce learners to five...

Students create their own landscape paintings. Students will learn various techniques to create an effective foreground, middleground, and background.

The 1955 murder of Emmett Till is often regarded as the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. Learn more about the brutal crime—and, as many believe, the miscarriage of justice—that began a national conversation...

Students consider what makes a movie, television show, musical talent, or artist a cult classic and create descriptive lists of items from these phenomena that may be sold at auction.

Young scholars use the Wacom tablet to demonstrate observational drawings, design principles, and color schemes. Students create four different images of a common art or graphics tool based on four color schemes and a different effect.

Students work individually or in small groups to design a series of special effects images. They use image editing software to explore how visual information is interpreted and manipulated digitally. Students create new, blank image...

Students read and compare excerpts from The Odyssey and The Adventures of Telemachus to create their own story based on a secondary character. In this literary analysis   lesson, students read and compare the excerpts from the...

Students work cooperatively to compose a twenty measure song using the computer program GarageBand. Guidelines for the student compositions are available and include instrumentation and specific length.

Students engage in a lesson about the traditional Greek Temples and reflect upon how they are considered a work of art in modern times. They look at the architectural features that include the stylobate, columns, and the cornice. They...

Music aficionados classify pop music into by musical genres or styles. They evaluate the positive and negatives of collaborative performances, view segments of VH1's "Save the Music" concert, and discuss the difficulties of...

Experiment with multimedia storytelling. After watching a segment of American Family, first, middle and high schoolers tell a story about their families, clarifying the setting, characters, and script. They work on setting...

Pupils analyze the architecture of the United Architects and Ken Yeang. In this architecture analysis lesson, students explore architecture design for its sustainability, safety, and purpose. Pupils write an article about one of the...

Students become familiar with the basic tags that are used to make web pages. They consider the factors that make a well-developed web site and web page and use the basic elements of HTML to code a simple text file.

Students examine different types of media. They identify the bias in film and share them with the class. They also examine their personal biases and write about them.

Students write a three page article on two famous surrealist artist of their times. Then, they compare and contrast their similarities and document in the article website references used on footnotes. Students also use pre-existing...

Students review the parts of speech to begin the lesson. Using computers, they listen to instructions from their teacher and write the word under the categories respresenting the different parts of speech. Using the same word, they find...

Students organize information and prepare a visual interpretation that enhances an oral presentation using pictures, graphics and sound.

Learners view a variety of sculptures analyzing how space and mass interact, and how sculptors make choices about mass and space to express meaning in their art. They make small three-dimensional sketches experimenting with mass and space.

Students take their own digital photographs and scan them onto the computer. For each photograph, they write about them and use the internet to research their subject in the photo more throughly. They are graded based on a rubric and...

Students use the Internet to research colleges. They explore basic college terms, room and board, tuition costs, and areas of study. Using computer software, students create a brochure about their chosen college. They create a visual...

Pupils explore types of intervals containing major and minor sixths. While using Auralia computer software, they participate in a game to identify sharp and flat pitches. Afterwards, they identify the pitches by ear and listen to...

Learners explore using digital cameras to take their own photograph and then download them to the school's Dell computers. They then utilize the Tool Factory Workshop program to manipulate the photograph to only a few basic colors and...

Students customize either a watch, bicycle, or car using the templates provided inspired by Keith Haring. In this customizing lesson plan, students explore product design and development.

Students rate a variety of kid-friendly museum Web sites for both their educational and entertainment value. They reflect in writing about the overall success of each site to pique their interest in art, science, history or culture.