Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art: Book of Multicultural Images
Pictures of people, clothing styles, spiritual deities, places, and animals from around the world to color, to paint, and to use as inspiration. Different historical periods and cultures are represented making this a good resource for...
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Aia Michigan: Architecture: It's Elementary!
The It's Elementary! curriculum guide is home to numerous lesson plans and activities designed for teaching architecture to students in grades K-5. You'll find activities involving math, science, visual art, and social studies. Includes...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sfmoma: Art Communicates Moods Through Line & Color
A lesson plan that has students creating simple images to represent different emotions. Also includes ideas for integrating language arts and social studies topics into the arts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Pop Art in the Us
This collection uses primary sources to explore Pop art in the US.
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Reynolda House, Museum of American Art
The Reynolda House, Museum of American Art site, offers collections of Artworks, Costumes, and Decorative Arts from the 18th thru the 20th century.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Inside Scoop: Gilbert Stuart [Pdf]
A printable, kid-friendly introduction to the famous portraits painted by Gilbert Stuart. Includes a matching activity connected to social studies.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Go!
This educational tool is for children in grades 3-5. Provides information on art, music, language arts, science, social studies, and more using games and videos.
Crayola
Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan incorporates art, drama, social studies, and language arts. Students use recycled paper and boxes to create a castle, then use it as inspiration to write and act out their own play. (To access this lesson plan, you must...
Crayola
Crayola: Birth of Islands (Lesson Plan)
This site is a lesson plan that incorporates language arts, social studies, science, and art. After studying islands, and how they're formed, students create their own models using clay. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Social Realism
This collection uses primary sources to explore social realism in American art.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Project Portfolio: Art and Understanding
Website offers a video e-seminar from Columbia University artists and theorists on the question, "What is art?"
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance
This collection uses primary sources to explore visual art during the Harlem Renaissance.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Elements of Art: Line
Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art-line-by analyzing types of lines used in various works of art to help students understand how artists use line to convey movement and mood. They will then create an abstract...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: The Birchbark House
Emphasizing the connections between English language arts and social studies, this unit teaches students how we learn about our past. Students explore various texts (literary and informational) to come to understand how Native Americans...
Crayola
Crayola Asian Landscape Scroll
Here's a lesson plan for students of any age! Children use Chinese scroll painting as inspiration to create their own version of this ancient art form. Provides resources and adaptations as well. You need to register to view the page,...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Knights in Central Park
Are you aware of the artistry involved in creating armor and weaponry? The Metropolitan takes a comprehensive look at the arms and armor of warriors, soldiers, and knights from four different time periods in four different parts of the...
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How Does Art Tell Stories?
This lesson plan--for social studies or an art class studying the culture of India--features great clip art examples, resources for teachers, and a glossary of vocabulary words.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Exploring Social Studies Through Playwriting [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, 6th graders use photos of people in real-life events from the Zapatistas Movement as a springboard to write a dialogue between the people in the photograph. Students then work in pairs to create a scene...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters [Pdf]
In this lesson, students use photos that relate to a social studies concept (i.e., country of study, historical person, natural disaster, geographical landmark, religion, or governmental strife) as a springboard to write a first-person...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Africa
A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.
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Worcester Art Museum: American Art
The Worcester Art Museum has a vast collection of American Art. One can view these art works, and also a brief description of each work.
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De Young Museum of American Art: Boatmen on the Missouri: George Caleb Bingham
A site about the painter, George Caleb Bingham, created by The De Young Museum of American Art. The painting "Boatmen on the Mississippi," is shown and described on the first page. Click "Next," on the bottom to view and read about...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Folk Art
The biography of the American Art movement Folk art. Use this site out for more information, artist links and images.
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