US Holocaust Museum
The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk
Have you ever listened to a song that had a deeper political meaning to it? Every examined a work of art with layers of meaning? Pupils analyze the drawings of Arthur Szyk. They research the deeper meaning of several artistic cartoons...
DiscoverE
Arts and Engineering Activity Packet: Grades 3-5
Art and science sometimes go hand in hand. A set of four activities for learners in grades 3-5 teaches engineering concepts as part of art projects. Class members build homemade robots, elastic puppets, musical instruments, and...
Curated OER
Henna Hand Designs Art Lesson: Make a Unique Self-Portrait
Explore the art and cultural significance of henna hand designs. You engage the class by providing background information that describes who, what, where, when, and why henna designs are used. Then, the class uses the included templates...
Curated OER
Abstract Doodle Art
Students study abstract art. In this art lesson, students draw abstract shapes onto paper until the paper is filled, fill in each shape by coloring each shape with a different color, and mount the paper.
Curated OER
Cell Art
Combine art and science with this cell structure assignment. Learners depict a cell diagram, including the organelles, imitating a specific artist's style.
Chandler Unified School District
Art Masterpiece—Leonardo da Vinci Inventions
After getting to know the inventor, Leonardo da Vinci and his many inventions, scholars think up their own invention. Following a written description and a hand-drawn picture, learners use a method of mirror writing and antiquing to give...
Shmoop
ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.6
Here's an exercise designed for the Common Core Literacy Standard L.11-12.6 that asks learners to demonstrate their ability to put together all they have learned about language. The first activity is based on a passage from Rosencrantz...
Practical Pages
Famous Artists Lapbook
Create mini books with some of the most beautiful and well-known masterpieces of our time. Learners read short paragraphs about famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, and Johannes Vermeer, and create different kinds of...
Curated OER
Lesson Learned: Creating a Life Reports Project
Tap into the wisdom and knowledge of older members of the community with this New York Times plan. To warm up, learners write about and discuss advice they have been given. After reading "The Life Report," an op-ed column that asks older...
Schools United to Provide Enhanced Resources Network
AP English Project: Journal of Literary Terms and Devices
To prepare for the AP English exams, individuals are asked to create a notebook of literary terms and devices. The terms must be defined, accompanied by representative artwork, and illustrated by an example drawn for a named source. A...
Syracuse City School District
Literary Elements
Address the literary elements in a piece of writing using these materials. The packet includes plenty of resources, and focuses mainly on theme, character, and point of view, with some materials for setting, symbolism, and author's...
Shoop English
Literature Terms Activity
Designed to be used with an independent reading book, this activity provides practice with identifying and explaining literary terms. While they read, individuals find instances of literary devices and elements in use in their books....
York Catholic
Elements of Drama
Introduce young actors to the key elements of performance with this handout that defines key staging terms and activities.
Illustrative Mathematics
Grandfather Tang's Story
It's amazing the complex figures that can be made using only a few simple shapes. Following a class reading of the children's book Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, young mathematicians use sets of tangrams to create models...
Denton Independent School District
Pieces to the Puzzle Fraction Project
Four polygons each have a fraction with unlike denominators printed on them. Creative math minds select several shapes to create a design with and then write and solve a math problem involving the addition of all of the fractions...
Illustrative Mathematics
How Many Colored Pencils?
Support young mathematicians' interpretation of place value in order to multiply single-digit numbers by 10. The task builds upon and enhances a learners' understanding of place value, a second grade skill, while introducing...
Curated OER
Sing a Tale
This activity allows students to explore the elements of traditional folktales in folk music.
Read Works
Read Works: Forms of Art Abstract Art
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction article shares information about abstract art and the insights of the artist Mark Rothko. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Seasaws
Using photographs of natural and man-made objects, students assemble the pieces to create a seascape or an abstract composition.
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My Data = My Mondrian
Take a minute and fill out the short questionaire about yourself. The computer converts your data into a personalized painting-- Mondrian style. Everyone will want to try this again and again!
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Painting Critic: The Large Blue Horses by Franz Marc
A close look at the Expressionist style of artist Franz Marc and his painting, The Large Blue Horses. Provides a short biography of the artist, questions about the painting for students to answer, and an activity where they compare and...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopic: Sculpture Critic: Kouros by Isamu Noguchi
Resource about the sculpture Kouros by Isamu Noguchi. Includes an image of the sculpture, a suggested art activity in text and audio, links for more information about the sculpture and artist as well as a link to "Do More", a place to...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Critic: Cubi Xii by David Smith
Resource about the sculpture Cubi XII by David Smith. Includes an image of the sculpture, a suggested art activity in text and audio, links for more information about the sculpture and artist as well as a link to "Do More", a place to...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Critic: Harlow Family Group by Henry Moore
Resource about the sculpture Harlow Family Group by Henry Moore. Includes an image of the sculpture, a suggested art activity in text and audio, links for more information about the sculpture and artist as well as a link to "Do More", a...
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