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Learning About Artists

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore various artists and practice creating their style of painting. In this art history instructional activity, students discover various artists, such as Van Gogh and Michelangelo, and painting style each utilizes....
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Wrap It Up for Chanukah!

For Teachers K - 6th
Prepare gifts for the eight nights of Hanukkah with a fun and artistic lesson. Learners use various materials to make an array of unique gifts, including splatter paintings, decorated flowerpots, and stained glass designed with crayons.
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A Special Present

For Teachers K - 8th
Students conduct an experiment to create a special gift. In this special gift lesson, students make a gift for someone using water, Epsom salt, essential oil and food coloring. Students can create a card to go with their present.
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Solar Energy Experiment

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students observe solar energy at work. In this science instructional activity, students watch two bottles, painted black and white, sit in the heat with balloons on the mouth of the bottles. They observe and discuss why the balloon of...
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Explore the Elements of Art

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students recognize elements of art such as texture, shape line and color.  In this elements of art lesson plan, students create a still life picture with oil pastel or crayons.  Students define elements of art vocabulary....
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Fun Fall Leaves

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make painted hand prints to cut out and use as fall leaves.
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A Chance of a Life Time

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view and discuss the painting A Narrow Escape, by Alfred Jacob Miller. They write their own narrative about a time they were either scared or frightened. They make sketches of that time and choose one to paint using watercolor.
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Peking Opera Mask

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students design and create their own masks using the symbolism evident in Peking opera masks.
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Do We Control Nature, or Does Nature Control Us?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Student examine the theme of man versus nature in art. In this man versus nature lesson, students examine various pieces of art and discuss the theme as it is depicted. They discuss whether the themes shown in the artwork are relevant...
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Painting Modern Life

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze two works by Pablo Picasso and how he represents female figures. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the female figures in the two artworks and discuss them. Students research a topic of social importance and...
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Tissue Collage with Oil Pastels

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students demonstrate how colors are mixed and how repetition, unity, and emphasis are used when creating a colorful collage.
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The Lost Works of Vincent van Gogh

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge about the life and works of Vincent van Gogh. They will also become aquainted with the use of oil paints and will be able to better identify with real artists by using their medium
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Monet's Garden

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review impressionism and one of the well-known artist of this period, Claude Money. They explore "en plein air," an outdoor painting technique that Monet employed to create his work. They also experiment with warm and...
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Henri Rousseau Fantasy Jungle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners discuss the life and artistic style of Henri Rousseau, identify traits of artistic perspective, and create paintings using simple shapes and oil pastels in this 4th through 6th grade Art Lesson. Resource links are included with...
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Sunflowers - Artists

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate an interest in and knowledge of the artists who painted sunflowers. They are introduced to the style of expressionism as they discuss and explore the many connections between art and culture.
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Father's Day Tool Belt

For Teachers K - 6th
Students paint designs and messages on cloth nail bags using puff paint or fabric paint in this simple elementary school Art lesson for Father's Day. The lesson could be adapted depending on classroom needs and student needs.
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Canvas Transformations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students transform the content of paintings currently in the collection hanging in the Utah Fine Arts Museum by using the four theatre techniques of storytelling, kinetics images, soundscapes, and ritual building.
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Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners create a landscape or cityscape.  For this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples.  Learners choose three images and write "postcards" from each of the...
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Our Neighborhood

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students inspect visual arts by analyzing their hometown. For this neighborhood lesson, students identify the different buildings, topography, landmarks and scenery near their home. Students utilize art products such as paints and...
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Near and Far Snow People/an Art lesson

For Teachers K
Students explore the concepts in art of near and far by drawing landscapes and snowpeople. They first draw and later do watercolor and oil pastel paintings.
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Haring Art Truck

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the work of Keith Haring and graffiti art in general. They work together to design and paint a car imitating Keith Haring's style.
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Fantasy Allegory of Air

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the painting Jan Brueghel and design their own book. In this art and book lesson, students discuss the elements of fantasy from the painting and create their own book. Students illustrate the book and create a painting...
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Picture This: People Getting Along Together

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze various mosaic murals by the artist Charles Alston. They view and discuss ways to show a family of people, how art expresses relationships between people, and create a painting that demonstrates how people get along with...
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Depicting Women and Class in a Global Society

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze the evolution of women's work from the 19th century to present day and create artwork depicting women. In this women's roles lesson, students compare and contrast the use of space and color in the two paintings depicting...

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