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Silicon Valley Art Museum

For Students Pre-K - 1st
From the center of America's high-tech industry, the Silicon Valley Art Museum showcases the talents of artists-- past, present, and future-- who explore the connections between art and technology. Through a variety of high-interest...
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Silicon Valley Art Museum

For Students Pre-K - 1st
From the center of America's high-tech industry, the Silicon Valley Art Museum showcases the talents of artists-- past, present, and future-- who explore the connections between art and technology. Through a variety of high-interest...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Grade 3: Rock N Art

For Teachers 3rd
In this arts integrated unit, 3rd graders will explore Rocks and Soil. These projects focus on bringing multiple art forms to the Earth Sciences for third graders. Students will focus on comparing and contrasting the 3 types of rocks, as...
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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Art Theme

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A set of eight activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class. This...
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University of California

University of California: Art, Geometry and Abstract Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives many examples of how math and geometry are used by visual artists to create abstract sculpures.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia

For Students 9th - 10th
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.
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Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Magic Rocks [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, young scholars work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships....
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Paul Sharits: Thinking in a New Way About Movies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Information about 16mm films made by Paul Sharits is packed into his two-dimensional drawings on graph paper. Students will learn about how film works to understand how to translate Sharits's drawings into information about his films....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
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ArtsNow

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

For Teachers 1st
For 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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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: High Tech Art (With a Sense of Humor)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how art and technology come together to create masterpieces.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What About Internal Conflict in Art?

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief information explaining how artists create internal conflict through their works.
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Artbox Gallery of Children's Art

For Students 3rd - 8th
A gallery of artwork created by Masha Averina, a young Russian artist who works principally in gouache and watercolor. Some images are accompanied by excerpts from the literary sources that inspired the work, making this an excellent...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Take a Trip! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson, young scholars examine travel brochures to learn about persuasive writing. They then create a travel brochure themselves, giving three strong reasons that a person should come and visit their location. Once the brochure...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Double Vision

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pablo's Picasso's La Toilette is a loving portrait of Fernande Olivier, as well as a study in opposites and a reference to the history of art. In this lesson, students will discover the many levels of content in the painting through...
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Other

Make Your Own Money

For Students 10th - 12th
An extremely intricate and well organized WebQuest that involves economics and visual arts. Students complete an online exploration of monetary systems and then create one of their own for their school.
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Read Works

Read Works: Art and Artists What Is an Artist?

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining what an artist is. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Visual Patterns in Tessellations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan examines the mathematical nature of art, tilings and tessellations. Students will also explore polygons, symmetry, analyze patterns and explore the role of mathematics in nature and our...
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Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Creating Art With Code

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Solidify students' knowledge on sequencing by introducing new blocks and goals. In this case, students learn more about pixels and angles using the new blocks, while still practicing their sequencing skills. Also, students will be able...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Adventure Island [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will study examples of treasure maps and make a list of features and symbols. They will use their imaginations to create their own treasure maps and compose narratives to describe them.
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: 6 23 14: Who Knew Corn Flakes Could Look So Good?

For Students 1st - 6th
Enjoy learning about this unusual kind of art that uses corn flakes to create images.
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South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Etv Commission: Artopia: Painting

For Students 6th - 8th
Enter a world of painting in Artopia. Here, you can become an art critic, meet some professional painters, and learn some tricks to creating your own painting masterpiece.