California State University
Magic Bubble Prints
What a great, messy lesson to do with young learners! Create your own soap/paint solutions and let your student create paintings by blowing bubbles. The lesson is accompanied by a wonderful children's book. Kids will love this!
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Dick Blick Art Materials: Multicultural Lesson Plans
Twelve teacher-tested lesson plans to integrate art from around the world into your classroom. Each activity comes with a list of materials you'll need, easy-to-follow explanations, and examples.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Gyotaku: Japanese Fish Printing [Pdf]
An activity where students learn about the koi, an important symbol in Japanese culture, and create a gyotaku fish printing. This is designed to be done in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese garden but can be easily adapted.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Japan Images of a People
A wonderful three activity unit that examines the art of Japanese screen paintings. Following some valuable information on the culture and country student will have an opportunity to create their own screen.
Michigan Reach Out
Fingerprinting: A Lesson on Classification
Who done it? Basic lesson plan to classify fingerprints. Students can classify their own and classmates fingerprints by taking prints and comparing them to the handout provided.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Japan: Images of a People
Learners learn to view Japanese paintings, they make a screen, and they learn about the culture of Japan. There are three lesson plans and all allow all needed materials to be downloaded.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Master Drawings
The purpose of this lesson plan is to introduce you to the pleasure of looking at master drawings. Through the presentation of large-scale details, videos and close-up images simulate the experience of looking at a drawing with a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Screenprint & Poetry
In this lesson, learners will create a design based on a poem found online and use that design for screenprinting.
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 California
Ucmp: Understanding Science: Tennis Shoe Detectives
A lesson where students take copies of their shoe prints, then create a story and illustrate it with pictures showing trails of footprints. Presented are samples of such trails that can be used to stimulate class discussion, and to...