Art lessons for middle school students. They are sorted into categories of grades, lessons that can be adapted, medium used, subject matter, art period, artist, and cross-curricular connections.

Jim Dine's Child's Blue Wall combines sculpture and painting. It is both a realistic depiction of a child's bedroom and an abstract painting of a night sky. This lesson plan explores how Dine accomplished these two ideas in the same work...

Seven lesson plans with unique approaches to drawing the human face. Web site also includes many other links to art related topics.

A lesson plan for grades 2-4 submitted by a classroom teacher.

At this site from KinderArt students will learn about the Book of the Dead and its importance to Ancient Egyptian culture by creating their own Book of the Dead using colored pencils and scroll paper.

Impressionists used new methods of mixing colors based on contemporary scientific writings about optics. This lesson plan explores the theory of optical color mixing, painting the same subject under different conditions of light, and the...

Students explore how stories can be told without words, such as through performance and art. This is one of four storytelling lessons.

Students will be introduced to form, one of the basic elements of art. They will analyze the types of forms and materials used in various sculptures then experiment with lines in both two and three dimensions to see how shapes become forms.

This art project will teach students about various art styles and allow them to investigate various art historical periods. The site has a lesson plan included.

This site has a lesson plan that teaches about the scientific contributions of Leonardo da Vinci.

Find an eclectic list of arts-related careers--from book illustrator to puppeteer--with short write-ups in which practitioners explain what their careers are like.

Learners will complete a double bubble thinking map by sorting facts that go with Washington, Lincoln or both. Also included in this plan is an art project, worksheets, and video of the lesson in action. Great activity to use after...

A great multicultural art lesson that also connects visual art to music. Young scholars create a set of paper mache maracas emphasizing rhythm and expression in the painting details. Upon completion students will have the opportunity to...

Here, at this site from the Arizona State University, is a simple lesson plan for math or art teachers in the primary grades. Students create their own symmetrical design based on Pennsylvania barn signs. Also has a link to a site with...

A fun introduction to surrealism geared towards younger audiences. Play this game for fun or use it as a lesson plan.

A lesson on producing how to produce video diaries with high production value and content quality.

In this lesson plan, middle schoolers will apply mathematical, science, and engineering concepts to experiment with balancing levers. They will learn to classify types of levers to design and build a simplified mobile. Students will...

Rousseau imagined Tropical Forest with Monkeys from trips to botanical gardens, zoos, and illustrations in books. Students will conduct research and imagine themselves in a place other than where they live. They also will investigate the...

This collection of resources provides Arbor Day classroom activities for students in areas ranging from science to the arts. Students can learn plant identification, write poems or plays and quiz each other on tree facts.

SWBAT add an adjective to a sentence.

This is a language arts lesson concentrating on point of view and narrative writing. Using the novel Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo, students practice retelling part of a story from another point of view.

These detailed lesson plans let students research about Shiki and Haiku, compose on their own poetry, and learn about Japanese culture.

Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: Body parts and health problems. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material presented...

In this lesson, When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant Mentor and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox are used as mentor texts to help students realize what are important in the characters' lives and in their own...