Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Positive/Negative Bugs

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Bugs can be creepy - and fun! Kids create a positive and negative design by repeatedly drawing a simple insect overlaid with a geometric shape. The outcome is really neat and will help build spacial reasoning, visual acuteness,...
Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Art

Impressive Prints

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Explore printmaking with a discussion and project. Pupils first view and talk about various examples of prints and cover positive and negative space. They then come up with fictional animals and make prints of their creature using...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphite Embossing

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Teach your art class a lesson on viewing positive and negative space in multiple dimensions. They will use metal sheets and various pencil grades to apply the graphite embossing technique. This project will result in two contrasting images.
Assessment
Mathed Up!

Fractional and Negative Indices

For Students 7th - 10th
Explore how to deal with fractional and negative exponents. Scholars watch a video reviewing fractional, zero, and negative exponents. After the video, they test their skills by completing a worksheet covering the concepts.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Positive & Negative Space

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students review and differentiate between positive and negative space, view teacher sample, and cut out shapes to create puzzle-like picture in which one color of paper represents positive space and one color represents negative space.
Worksheet
Los Angeles Valley College

Adding and Subtracting Integers

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers with a forty-problem integers worksheet.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Does Negative Space Have A Shape?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students observe negative space in drawing. In this negative space lesson, students discover that sketches include negative space or background. Students produce a drawing while paying attention to the negative space.
Worksheet
Mt. San Antonio Collage

Multiplying & Dividing Integers

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Pre-assess, practice, post-assess, or review multiplying and dividing positive and negative integers with exponents using this 20 problems integers worksheet.
Lesson Plan
Incredible Art Department

Notan Collages - "Expanding the Square"

For Teachers 6th
Notan is a Japanese word that expresses the interaction between light and dark. Learners explore Notan while creating dimensional art pieces that examine positive and negative spaces. They'll discuss the art of Notan, create...
Lesson Plan
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Mixed Media Collage

For Teachers 2nd
Rhythm, repetition, positive, and negative space is used to create mixed media collages. Let your learners go wild with glue, magazine clippings, and the elements of design. They'll experiment with various types of media, color, and...
Assessment
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Assessment For The California Mathematics Standards Grade 6

For Students 6th Standards
Test your scholars' knowledge of a multitude of concepts with an assessment aligned to the California math standards. Using the exam, class members show what they know about the four operations, positive and negative numbers, statistics...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Positive/Negative Space - Black and White non-objective collage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create a collage using cut black and white construction paper and utilize positive and negative space.
Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Canada

Designing Balance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Teach your artists how to incorporate balance into their work through discussion and action. After viewing and discussing several works of art, learners design a balanced image for a T-shirt and follow the step-by-step instructions to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Blick Liquid Watercolor

For Teachers K - 12th
Introduce this abstract art to your class; they must chose ordinary classroom objects and shapes to paint with watercolors. The overlapping effect will create a fun, abstract piece of art!
Worksheet
Lone Star College

Integer Order of Operations Worksheet

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Practice, assess, or review mathematicians' skills with this integer worksheet addressing order of operations using positive and negative integers, and solving equations in which letters stand for numbers. 
Assessment
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Assessment for the California Mathematics Standards Grade 5

For Students 5th Standards
Test young mathematicians' knowledge with an assessment aligned to California's fifth grade state standards. The exam covers a multitude of concepts including fractions and decimals, positive and negative numbers, measurement; and...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Work and More Work

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science worksheet, students classify 6 actions as positive work, negative work, or no work. Students also design their own experiment.
Worksheet
Mathed Up!

Ordering Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Give scholars the opportunity to show what they know about ordering fractions, decimals, and percents with a five-page, eight-problem independent practice. With clear instructions and supportive advice, learners are bound for a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Impressive prints!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore Inuit artworks and legends, and create prints of a fictional animal. They familiarize themselves with the concepts of positive and negative spaces through printmaking techniques.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ordering Integers

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Sixth and seventh graders compare and order integers. After locating integers in a newspaper, they describe examples of negative and positive integers. They draw a thermometer and locate positive and negative integers on the scale. In...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tree Bark

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore and display textures of tree bark in a patterned arrangement of positive and negative space. They make crayon rubbings with various colors and arrange them in an original repetitive pattern. They glue finished designs to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mono-Moonscape Painting/Collage

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, after viewing pictures of the moon's surface, explore positive and negative space using mono print and collage techniques to create an imaginary lunar landscape. They interact with various shapes and textures to create their...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Relationship Between Absolute Value and Order

For Teachers 6th Standards
Order up a resource on absolute value and order. The 12th installment of a 21-part module investigates the relationship between absolute value and the order of numbers on a number line. Scholars determine how the actual values and the...
Interactive
DocsTeach

What is Patent Number 1,693,515?

For Students 4th - 8th
Scholars examine a document from 1928 featuring a mystery invention. Following their observations and discussion, the document reveals the invention of the permanent wave machine by Marjorie S. Joyner. Class members read about Joyner,...