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Canadian Landscapes

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders compare landscapes in their own community to landscapes in other Canadian communities. They discuss how the environment affects the identity of a given community / country.
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Mixed Media Landscape Design

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create mixed media representations of landscape designs in Africa and Asia. The lesson is great for cross-curricular projects with the Social Sciences and/or Literature, or can be used as a self-contained project. ...
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Landscape Painting

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders paint a landscape that demonstrates the illusion of space.  For this visual arts lesson, 3rd graders paint a creek with reflections as the focus and include images showing foreground, middle ground, and background within...
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Combining Clouds and Art in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students observe landscape paintings consisting of cloud formations. In this identifying cloud types lesson, students discover different cloud types and characteristics by looking at paintings. Students paint their own pictures at the...
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How to Haiku: Poetry Reflecting the Feelings in Art

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discover the elements and subjects of haiku poetry. They observe and describe the objects in a landscape painting. They write a haiku based on the feelings evoked by the painting.
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Bekshire Museum

Cloudy Skies: The Art of Classification

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Such a great resource and perfect for learners in Kindergarten through third grade. The class will discuss cloud types and formation, and then they'll get outside and draw as they observe the clouds they see. They'll need to take note of...
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Visual Depth in Art

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students explain the concept of foreground, middle ground and background in creating a sense of depth in a landscape painting or drawing.
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What Does Art Sound Like?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Help your charges investigate visual art by identifying sounds that are associated with the images. They view art galleries online and discuss which sounds would be present if the image was a real life situation. Additionally, they...
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Rococo Art & Architecture

For Teachers 9th - 11th
A splash of light against the dark background of the Baroque period, the Rococo Art of 18th century Europe shines brilliantly in this appealing and artistic presentation. The slides focus primarily on the paintings of French and English...
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Framing the Landscape

For Teachers K - 5th
Students draw their own drawings after learning about composition of drawings and lines. In this drawing lesson plan, students learn about different lines they can use while drawing. Then they go outside and draw their own.
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Landscapes: Real and Imagined

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine three landscapes incorporating images from nature and the unconscious. In this art analysis instructional activity, students explore the artists' perception and impact on a subject. Students complete image based...
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Modern Landscapes

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze the artistic responses to the changing landscape during the interwar period. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze landscape images and consider the ways artists depicted the changing landscape. Students complete...
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Looking at Landscapes Lesson 3: Postcards

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students view various landscape paintings, then choose one of the landscapes they have seen that represents a place they would like to go on vacation. They simulate being on a vacation at their chosen location and write postcards to...
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Environmental Art

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create their own environmental art after the teacher shows them a variety of example and has a discussion about it. They then write an initial personal definition of environmental art.
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Reading the Landscape in Children's Literature

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify geographical information about landscapes found in student literature, demonstrate an organizing tool, developed around geographical themes, for the recording of information, and share uses of this approach.
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Denmark

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a nature journal for an imaginary trip around Denmark. They identify animals and plants that live in Denmark. Students describe the landscape of Denmark. They summarize and present historical information about an assigned...
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Huntington Library

Light in Painting

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
How do painters use and manipulate light in their artwork to give emphasis and establish mood and emotion? Pupils will analyze a few examples of landscape and portrait painting in order to explore the how light is used in art, and will...
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Lesson: After Nature: Visions and Visionaries

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Build visual literacy, discussion, and critical thinking skills with an innovative art lesson. Young analysts discuss the use of decalcomania, surrealism, and automatism in various contemporary pieces, discuss constructed truth, and...
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Lesson: David Goldblatt: Structures and Normativity, looking at Photography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Art can be a vehicle for social change and cultural expression. Upper graders examine the art of photographer David Goldblatt, as it pertains to apartheid, South Africa, and the AIDS epidemic. Discussion questions and image links are...
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Memorial Art Gallery

Learning to Look, Looking to Learn - Sunday Morning

For Students 9th - 12th
Jerome Myers' depiction of the urban landscape in "Sunday Morning" is the focus of a series of activities that asks viewers to examine how an artist uses the elements of a painting to tell a story. The resource packet includes an image...
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The View From Here

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Study the beauty of the landscape around you with an innovative art lesson. After discussing the foreground, background, and middle ground of landscape art, kids work on making their own piece of landscape art. The lesson provides...
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National Gallery of Canada

September Gale T-Shirts

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Focus on the principles of design with a wearable landscape art project. The plan provides definitions to share and art to examine. After students have a grasp of the principles, they draw a scene to eventually transfer onto a T-shirt....
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Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the Visual Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define genre in the visual arts, particularly in Western painting and explain the differences between subject and genre. The genre of a variety of works of art is identified.
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The Landscape of Luxembourg

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a nature journal for an imaginary trip around Luxembourg, including a visit to the Mullerthal region. They identify animals and plants that live in Luxembourg and describe its landscape. In addition, they summarize and...

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