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Next: Perspective

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore the principles of perspective by completing these three activities. For further information, click on one of the links provided.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Drawing Three Dimensional Figures

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Get independent practice drawing three-dimensional figures. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My City, My Perspective

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson in which learners create a drawing of a local architectural structure using grid and perspective lines.
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Other

Inside Penciling Comics: Two Point Perspective

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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Other

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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Goshen College

Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
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Goshen College

Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Studies for the Last Judgment and a Late Crucifixion Drawing

For Students 9th - 10th
The Last Judgement was a common theme in church art, but Michelangelo's interpretation was entirely novel. His vision of the Apocalypse is a swirling maelstrom, filled with thick-set and muscular naked figures. Traditional symmetry and...
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Other

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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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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California State University

A Bird's Eye View

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
With this lesson plan students 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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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Libraries: Zoos, a Historical Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
An online sample of maps, drawings and photographs of zoos from over 30 states and 40 countries.
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Other

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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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 4: 2 D Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This fourth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of two-dimensional art. Students learn about the invention of paper, early perceptions of drawing, how hatching and cross-hatching were used by Michelangelo,...
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Yale University

Yale: The Illusion of the Renaissance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A curriculum unit on perspective, detailing the differences between medieval and Renaissance art. This is designed as a studio art course for 8th grade through high school, and contains some good information and activities. Illustrations...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Shape and Space in Geometry: I Took a Trip on a Train

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Think through what you would view as you ride around this park on a train. You are given a topographical view of a park and asked to put the pictures in order of what you would see as you ride around the park.
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Other

National Library of Ireland: The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition draws on the collections of the National Library of Ireland to tell the story of Easter week 1916, when seven Irishmen proclaimed themselves the provisional government of the Republic of Ireland and attempted to throw...
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Other

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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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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Other

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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Other

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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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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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Accessing Students' Background Knowledge in the Ell Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As you teach content areas to ELLs of diverse backgrounds, you may find that they struggle to grasp the content, and that they approach the content from very different perspectives. Drawing on your students' background knowledge and...
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University of Texas at Austin

Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Mathematical Models With Applications

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students use geometry software to create a two-point perspective drawing.

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