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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...
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...
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.
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...
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum: Cold War Modern: Design,1945 70
Museum exhibition canvasses the design of the cold war period. The focus of the exhibition is on making the connections between artistic production of the time and the era's prevailing political and social ideas.
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?"
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.
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.
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: Bold and Bright in Harlem (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan incorporates art into a social studies or language arts class. Students create their own pictures, using the work of Harlem Renaissance artists as inspiration. Also provides resources and adaptations to try with this...
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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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.
Yale University
Yale University: History and Memory
A seven-week video lecture exploring history and memory, focusing on how people mourn and recall tragedies. Lecture titles include: "Remembering Catastrophe," "War Memorials," "War Literature," and "Art and Catastrophe."
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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.
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Early American Paintings in the Worcester Art Museum
A site with examples and information about early American paintings from 1671-1829. Use the timeline to click on a time period, or click and select by artist, genre, or place of origin. Also includes an extensive bibliography.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Explorers of Yesterday and Today
Explorer Tom Murphy braves a ground blizzard during a winter night in Yellowstone as seen in this video segment from Nature.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Inside Scoop: Dutch Still Life [Pdf]
A kid-friendly printable packet that walks you through the "what's" and the "why's" of a Dutch food still-life painting. Also includes a fun cookie recipe!
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Popol Vuh
This unit is geared towards grades 4-8, but could be used with ESL high school students. Contains lesson plans integrating language arts and social studies, with a bibliography, a play, recipe, and a reading list for students.
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour Classroom Collection
PBS NewsHour Classroom helps teachers and students identify the who, what, when, where, and why-it-matters of news stories. In partnership with PBS LearningMedia, we are proud to bring you Daily News Lessons which takes the best of the...
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.