Students will study the elements of art and learn how culture, families, environment, and experiences often influence what is depicted in art. Students will study African masks and pop culture art from numerous cultures. To...

Take a virtual field trip and use these lessons while exploring wildlife art collections online. Utilize these lessons to integrate art with writing, problem solving, and other activities that may already be taking place in your classroom.

Contains plans for two lessons that use the book "Anna's Art Adventure" by Bjorn Sortland to teach students to write about art descriptively. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...

Students will examine works of art that involve appropriated images and then create their own works of art appropriating text, music, or images of their choice. Students will follow up with a discussion of how appropriation can become an...

Contains plans for three 50-minute lessons that ask middle schoolers to use the writing process to write about a piece of visual art. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and...

Learners will learn the color theory and techniques that guided Claude Monet's impressionist painting and apply those techniques to the creation of their own works of art.

This unit on Mexican art comes with four lesson plans, art activities, a bibliography, video suggestions, and web links.

Students will analyze landscapes by three artists. After learning about the horizon line, they will create their own painted and collaged landscapes inspired by one of the artists.

The purpose of this lesson plan is to help students cope with unfamiliar language in Shakespeare's sonnets and to help them understand and appreciate both what he says and how he says it.

Seventh graders knowledge of proportional relationships is assessed in this lesson using the mixtures of paint.

Students will be introduced to the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne by critically analyzing the painting Apollo Pursuing Daphne by Tiepolo. They will then design a coat of arms with symbols that best represent their personality and...

Students will explore how westward expansion increased the number of jobs available in the nineteenth century, including being a flat boatman through a painting by George Caleb Bingham.

Students will learn the story of young Brook Watson who lost his leg to a shark attack. By re-enacting the stances and feelings of his rescuers, they will come up with a list of adjectives to create a class definition of a hero/heroine....

Resources created for elementary and middle-school teachers, but adaptable for high school teachers, connecting works of art in the Jewish Museum to Jewish holidays. Each work of art has links for information about the art, information...

Access the resource guide developed to be used in conjunction with the first season of episodes in the acclaimed PBS series "Art:21." Use the guide to introduce students to contemporary art, to learn about individual artists (e.g.,...

In this 9-12 lesson plan, students will analyze the positive character traits of heroes as depicted in music, art, and literature. They will gain an understanding of how cultures and societies have produced folk, military, religious,...

Lesson for social studies teachers whose students are studying various decades.

Students of all ages love learning origami. This lesson gives good outlines on how to set up a classroom for this challenging, yet fun art form. There is a great suggestion to incorporate the picture book "Sadako and the Thousand Paper...

For this lesson, students analyze how a character's personality traits, actions, and motives influence the plot of a story. Students also learn how storytellers use their face, body, and voice, as well as the five senses, to enhance the...

Before reading the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, "Beowulf," students should explore the Dark Ages through researching the fundamental characteristics of the art and literature produced during this period. This website provides links for doing...

A cross curricular project where students conduct a moot court to explore the role government policy plays in protecting our health. The focus of the unit is how our power effects our environmental health. Students use their knowledge of...

This four-part instructional activity engages students in oral, written, and artistic tasks as they learn about the Food Pyramid. Students will learn the importance of eating a healthy diet.

The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recently opened a $300 million dollar center for the performing arts, the Kimmel Center. This lesson was developed for a special teacher workshop to incorporate economics and the arts to teach kids...

The Faust theme, that of risking eternal damnation by selling one's soul to the devil in exchange for magical powers, can be found in virtually every genre of music as well as in literature and the visual arts. Examples utilizing this...