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How to Draw and Paint: Learn to Draw

For Students 9th - 10th
Bob Davies offers free online drawing tutorials and videos. He will demonstrate for you some basic drawing skills and how to draw a variety of different subjects including the human face.
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Optical Society

Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Perspectives: Powers of 10

For Students 9th - 10th
A drawing and measuring activity to give students an appreciation of magnitude in powers of ten, and of microscopes. Students draw themselves and an object life-size, and then examine smaller and smaller pieces of their picture.
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Hop's Gallery: Perspective Study

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage explores traditional perspective drawings as well as contemporary drawings, focusing on their use of horizontal and vertical lines.
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Art Education: Drawing in One Point Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fascinating interactive site showing how to use lines in on-point perspective drawings.
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Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704

For Students 9th - 10th
This award-winning resource draws the reader into a consideration of history as witnessed from multiple perspectives. Discover the mystery of the French and Indian raid on colonial Deerfield, Massachusetts where five cultures clashed in...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: If Stones Could Speak

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will explore history and will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation. Archaeological research provides us with stories of human history that help us understand the...
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California State University

A Bird's Eye View

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
With this lesson plan young scholars will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
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Technology Student

Technology Student: Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
This site covers everything from the basic tools to advanced techniques used in graphics design.
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University of Evansville: Art Studio Chalkboard

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Evansville is a great place for the aspiring artist to visit. Receive free professional advice and tips on basic drawing techniques. The site focuses on perspective drawing and shading.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Becoming Visible: Saul Bellow

For Students 9th - 10th
Jewish American author Saul Bellow is featured in this biography identifying his literary contributions and his manner of drawing on the weaknesses of humanity. See "Saul Bellow Activities" for related materials.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Explorations in American Environmental History

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These lessons introduce students to historical perspectives of nature and the environment, drawing on the American Memory collections, other digital resources, readings, and writing exercises. Students examine materials in a variety of...
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Mark Harden's Artchive

The Artchive: Leonardo Da Vinci Selected Notes on Painting

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information about the selected notes by Leonardo da Vinci on artistic style. Mentions colors, tone, sculpture, drawing, shadows, perspective, etc.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: I'm "Thumbody"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this lesson, students create a thumb print and draw a picture of themselves around it in order to investigate differences among the students.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Vanishing Point

For Students 9th - 10th
MathWorld offers a definition of vanishing point; contains diagrams of one, two, and three point perspective drawings with arrows pointing to the vanishing points.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Perspective Diagram

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Perspective diagram", created by Giacomo Da Vignola in 1583 (Drawing).
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Traveling Above, Looking Below

For Students 3rd - 5th
Try drawing something from a bird's-eye view and change your usual perspective of that object. Relates this drawing-from-above concept to artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Ohio Resource Center: Shadows

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This applet helps students visualize the shapes of shadows cast by a cube with a light coming from different angles. This helps students visualize shapes from different angles and to identify, sketch and classify the cross-sections of...
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Curated OER

Nw #30

For Students 9th - 10th
On this website you can learn how two point perspectives are used to create pictures in comic books.
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Nw #35

For Students 9th - 10th
On this website you can learn how two point perspectives are used to create pictures in comic books.
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Curated OER

Nw #38

For Students 9th - 10th
On this website you can learn how two point perspectives are used to create pictures in comic books.
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Curated OER

Nw #38

For Students 9th - 10th
On this website you can learn how two point perspectives are used to create pictures in comic books.
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Stony Brook University: Sennacherib's Palace Without Rival at Nineveh

For Students 9th - 10th
This book by John Malcolm Russell, a professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was published in 1991. Written from the perspective of an art historian, he presents his ideas about the function of the Palace without Rival by...
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National Gallery of Canada

Cybermuse: Introduction to Pictorial Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A site featuring the work of Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, and Mondrian, among others, that explores pictorial space in a composition There are lesson plans for ages 4-18, and a great section where works are juxtaposed for comparison. Use the...
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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Listening for Specific Information

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial presents a video, factsheets, and worksheets for learning how to listen for and understand information. It looks at how to handle different situations, e.g., arranging a delivery, asking questions about a product before...

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