Curated OER
Distortion Unleashed
Learners view examples of man-made structures and create a building that matches the style. Using the internet, they research the style of Frank Lloyd Wright and create plans for creating their own community. They use a painting of...
Curated OER
Fitness
Fourth graders determine how to design regular and semi-regular tessellations of the plane. They develop the ability to demonstrate why a tessellation covers the plane in this series of lessons.
University of California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Cotton Pickers by Romare Bearden
The Berkeley Art Museum publishes an activity based on Romare Bearden's The Cotton Pickers that helps young learners identify the geometric shapes used in the composition. Also discusses the artist's use of color to evoke mood.
TES Global
Tes: Maths and Islamic Art & Design
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of design and shape templates from the Maths and Islamic Art & Design sections of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It provides the following templates: Islamic circular grid,...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Moving Shapes [Pdf]
These activities will allow students to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Wassily Kandinsky, "Improvisation 31"
This site analyzes Kandinsky's abstract painting "Improvisation 31." Discusses colors, shapes, line, and mood. Has a short matching exercise involving simple geometric shapes.
Other
Art With Mrs. Filmore: 1st Grade Art Lessons
This site offers a variety of art lessons that use various media. Each project includes instructions and pictures of the students' completed artwork.
Read Works
Read Works: Art and Artists Shapes
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about shapes in art. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Mondrian Style Painting (Lesson Plan)
At this site students are encouraged to create a Mondrian style painting which will consist of geometric shapes and primary colors.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Explore Geometry With Abstract Imagery [Pdf]
Delve into the abstract world of Wassily Kandinsky! Allow your imagination to soar as you discover mathematical connections within Kandinsky images that explore the relationships between geometric shapes and polygons.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Explore Geometry With Abstract Imagery [Pdf]
Delve into the abstract world of Wassily Kandinsky! Allow your imagination to soar as you discover mathematical connections within Kandinsky images that explore the relationships between geometric shapes and polygons.
Other
Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Shape and Line Remix
Sol LeWitt used ideas as his artwork, a method of artmaking that has become known as Conceptual art. From each idea, many drawings, prints, or sculptures could be created. Students will use simple geometric shapes as creative starting...
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Geometric Figures
Young scholars will prove their knowledge of geometric shape by capturing photographs of examples within their environment.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Module K: Shapes
In this series of STEAM activities, students will discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences. Another activity in this module will allow students to identify shapes by applying...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Origami Geometry
Origami (ori-folding, kami-paper) is the traditional Japanese art of folding paper. Students will discover relationships between shapes as they are actively engaged in this hands on geometry lesson to learn basic geometric shapes, their...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes & Patterns
In this lesson, students will watch videos about shapes and identify shapes in their environment and in art. Links to the videos are at the bottom of the lesson overview, other material links are also provided.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes Into Sculptures
In this instructional activity, students will identify 2- and 3-dimensional shapes as well as create shape drawings and sculptures. Teacher materials are available.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometry in Dance
In this lesson, students observe symmetry, geometric shapes, and angles in two Early American dances, and then choreograph their own dance with symmetrical figures. Media and teaching materials are included.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Performing Perimeter [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders calculate the perimeter of various geometric shapes and represent the perimeter with a movement phrase. They will identify the types of angles within each shape. Other students will identify the shape that was...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Henri Rousseau Fantasy Jungle (Lesson Plan)
KinderArt provides a site with information on how to teach students art techniques. Students learn to recognize and identify foreground, midground and background. They also create a stylized drawing using simple shapes as well as...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Flowers & Georgia O'keeffe (Lesson Plan)
Students will have the opportunity to create a drawing of a flower using Georgia O'Keeffe as their inspiration. They will develop skills in drawing and composition and understand the difference between realistic and abstract art.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Norval Morrisseau (Lesson Plan)
A wonderful educational art site from KinderArt that includes creating a work of art in a style similar to that of Morrisseau. Includes a short biography, art vocabulary, and information on Ojibwa culture.