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Promoting Yourself Through Advertising
Tenth graders design their own ads and complete a full-size comprehensive of the final ad which showed color and final layout of the printed piece.
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Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Connection
Students read information about Mary Cassatt and study examples of her Impressionist art. In this art history lesson, students read about the life and art of Mary Cassatt. Students then study her art 'Little Girl in a Blue Armchair.'...
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Lesson Plans for Genre Dance Around the Maypole
Students analyze the art of Pieter Brueghel and complete related art activities. In this art analysis lesson plan, students read a biography of Pieter Brueghel and complete a photo montage activity. Students also complete an aesthetics...
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Las Meninas by Vel¿¿zquez
Students use a CD-ROM to identify parts of the painting "Las Meninas". They complete a worksheet based on questions in the different segments of the CD-ROM. They research the royal family and compare them to other families and portraits....
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The Art of Description
Students apply descriptive language to identify the five elements of art and the basic lines, geometric shapes, and angles in Marie Hull's, Sharecropper. They explain how the elements of a piece of work contribute to the story it tells....
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Virtual Museum of Musical Instruments
Students incorporate elements of photo composition and demonstrate how to upload digital pictures to the computer. They create their own instrument utilizing resources from home as well as specialized music hardware. They participate in...
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Can We Draw Working People?
Students examine non-traditional careers by gender. In this guidance lesson, students discover career options are not limited by gender. Students identify a career of interest to them and illustrate themselves.
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Art Museum Exhibit Brochure
Students design, set up, and format a brochure for a museum exhibit. They conduct Internet research, locate images, summarize information, and create a trifold brochure.
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Spoken Word Poetry
Students examine the spoken work poetry of Abiodun Oyewole. They discuss the West African Griot tradition, listen to spoken word poetry, write and perform a poem, and watch a video excerpt of a poetry workshop.
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Vocabulary In Conversation
In this vocabulary in conversation learning exercise, students use context clues to fill in the blanks of a dialog online, then check the answers.
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Lewis and Clark and the Cottonwoods
Third graders pretend they are museum planners and have to display facts about Lewis and Clarks' Expedition. For this Lewis and Clark lesson plan, 3rd graders research the expedition and display their findings.
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Integration of Photography with Other Learning Experiences
Students studied photography in order to establish individual vision, creative thinking and writing skills while communicating ideas and emotions. They exhibit their work.
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Chrysanthemum Sound Boards
Students listen and match sounds such as rhyming, beginning, ending and vowel sounds to build phonemic awareness.
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Hall of Fame
Students create a Hall of Fame. They discuss and study established Hall of Fames such as baseball. They participate in mock nominating and voting process for the hall of fame.
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Pysanky Eggs
Students explore Ukrainian culture and the additive dye process using wax as a resist. An original design is created displaying Ukrainian symbolism and placed onto an egg.
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Folk Dance Explorations in the Choreographic Work of Modern Dance
Tenth graders participate in a instructional activity guided by an essential question: in what ways does choreographer, Mark Morris' work, "The Office," reflect Eastern-European traditional folk dance? During the instructional...
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Antonio Gaud¿¿: El Misterio
Young scholars examine the architecture of Antonio Gaudi. Using the Internet, they research his life and summarize the information. They create a real estate advertisement in Spanish. Using new vocabulary, they use descriptive adjectives...
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Museo Mural Diego Rivera
Students take a virtual tip to the Mural Museum and examine the Museo Mural Diego Rivera. Students Identify fifteen people in the mural and research them to find out more about their lives. They discover the history of the painting and...
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Intermediate Matching - Educational Buildings
In this educational building worksheet, students draw a line from the names of educational buildings to the corresponding definitions. There are 7 terms and definitions to match up.
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Coyote and Anansi
Young scholars explore the structure of folktales. For this coyote and Anansi lesson, students discuss the attributes of folktales as they read versions of tales featuring coyote and Anansi. Young scholars collaborate to write and...
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A Picture is Worth a Million Words
Students practice composing digital photographs by documenting activities in their lives. In this photography lesson, students utilize digital cameras to create beautiful art from things they find around the campus or at their home....
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Maria Callas
In this famous person worksheet, learners read a passage about Maria Callas and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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Naguib Mahfouz
In this famous leaders activity, students read a passage about Naguib Mahfouz and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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Nancy Ajram
For this famous leaders worksheet, students read a passage about Nancy Ajram and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...