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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Art Lesson Plans, 9 12

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Browse this selection of lesson plans for the visual arts classroom. Easy-to-use tools help you search for the kinds of plans that interest you most. Lessons are laid out in full, with supplies lists, instructional plans, assessments,...
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PBS

Art:21: Art in the Twenty First Century

For Students 9th - 10th
The online home of award-winning PBS television series "Art:21" opens a window into the world of contemporary art and artists. Includes a lessons library, downloadable educator guides, examples of student-created projects inspired by the...
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The Teacher's Guide Art Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A multitude of lesson plans from various sources compiled for you in one list. Projects are primarily for younger students but could be adapted to older elementary grades.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Cave Art

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site contains very detailed lesson plans for teaching about cave art, specifically the Lascaux Cave. Within the site there are links to the Lascaux Cave website where students can explore the caves. The site also contains detailed...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Using Interactive Lessons in the Classroom

For Teachers K - 1st
This teacher tutorial introduces K-12 educators to the interactive activity format. Featuring videos that show teachers and students in a variety of classroom settings, the tutorial provides strategies and tips that will help educators...
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade: Lesson 1: Visualizing a Setting

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the course of this lesson, 3rd graders will learn to determine the setting of what they read by using context clues and visualization.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson Plan: Arabic Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This online lesson plan introduces information about the Arabic poetic art form known as the ghazal. It includes Educational Objectives, classroom activities and projects, examples, and a list of the relevant national educational standards.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Classroom Resources: Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Literacy lesson plans, mini-lessons, or units searchable by grade level, objective, or theme.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Cave Art Discovering Prehistoric Humans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
By studying cave paintings, students learn about prehistoric cultures and the stories and ideas they wished to communicate to others through art. The lesson plan presented on this website aims to show young students the significance of...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Can It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pop artists used consumer products, advertising, and popular culture icons as the major source for subject matter in their art. Between 1962 and 1967, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, both individually and in groups. 100 Cans is one of the...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: It All Adds Up to Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lorna Simpson creates evocative works that examine how combinations of pictures and texts create new meanings that do not exist in the images or words alone. This lesson plan explores the concepts she works with, including African...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: How Observant Are You?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pop artists of the 1960s encouraged people to look more closely at the everyday objects around them. How observant are your students? This lesson plan focuses on observation, memory, and home and classroom environments.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art of South and Southeast Asia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains 168 pages describing numerous pieces of art of South and Southeast Asia with images and lesson plans included.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art of Africa

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains 216 pages describing numerous pieces of African art with images and lesson plans included.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
One of the finest sites of its kind on the Internet, ArtsEdge is dedicated to supporting arts education through such initiatives as curriculum development, cross-curricular teaching, and technology integration. Find arts-related...
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Art Window

For Students 9th - 10th
Teacher shares lessons, secrets, examples curriculum, and experiences as an art educator.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Browse Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The following database allows teachers to search for lessons for all age groups covering a wide range of subjects. Simply click on the age group and the following content: arts, foreign language, literature and language arts,...
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Core Knowledge Lesson Plans Art and Music

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Core Knowledge seeks out to ensure the academic excellence for all students in grades K-8. Their foundations include the 4 S's of learning including solid principles, sequenced lessons, specified events, and shared cross-curricular...
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Silicon Valley Art Museum: Clay Beads [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An online lesson plan for getting your hands dirty! The student will learn all about making beads from clay and receive ideas on what to do with them after they are done.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Sculpture & 3 D Design Unit

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtLex provides a unit of lessons dealing with three-dimensional design. A quiz with questions on sculpture, art criticism, and qualities of art is included, centering on the sculpture "Vaquero" by Luis Jimenez. There are links to the...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Education: Chicago: The City in Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons on a variety of themes based on mural paintings in eleven Chicago public school buildings.
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Art Education 2.0: Using New Technology in Art Classrooms

For Students 9th - 10th
Art Education 2.0 is a social networking site for art teachers run by university professor Craig Roland. Find answers, inspiration, and more from dozens of other art teachers just like yourself who have questions and ideas to share.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Big and Small Are Tricky

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition that uses African art to explain the concepts of bigness and smallness. In the world of art, big and small can refer not only to physical size but to relative size, to the impression an object makes, or to the largeness of...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st
In this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...

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