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National Gallery of Canada

My Treehouse

For Teachers K - 3rd
If you could build your own treehouse, what would it look like? Using a piece of contemporary art as inspiration, learners draw their own treehouses and add geometric and organic shapes. The activity touches on Visual Thinking Strategies...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Incredible Stories: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 3rd
The materials in this 40-page packet are designed for learners who need extra support in order to understand the concepts in a thematic unit on fantasy and realism.
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Curated OER

Nature Abstractions - Georgia O'Keeffe

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars examine the work of Georgia O'Keeffe and forms of nature. Sketches are made of natural objects and then abstracted. Clay forms are then made using draped slab method and hand building techniques.
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Curated OER

Clay Whistle/Ocarinas

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a clay whistle/ocarina and sculptue in the round using the pinch technique.
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Curated OER

Oaxacan Animals

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the wood carving techniques and artistic capacity of the Zapotec Indians and create a whimsical creature based on the wood carvings. The creature is made from newspaper and designed using paint pens.
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Curated OER

Greeks Lose Their Marbles

For Students 6th - 10th
In this Greek history worksheet, students read an excerpt about how the Greeks lost their marble structures. They identify which goddess the Parthenon was build for; why the Greeks wanted the marble returned to Athens; and why the...
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Curated OER

Ceramic shoes - wild and wacky

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the history of shoes and shoes from various cultures. They create a shoe using slab and coil techniques. They become familiar with basic additive and subtractive sculpting methods while adding imaginative features to...
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Curated OER

Venetian Carnival Masks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the history of the Venetian Carnival and the use of the carnival masks in French and Italian traditions. Masks are then created noting the emphasis non fantasy, stylization, and abstraction features.
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Curated OER

Aphrodite with Eros on a Dolphin at Her Side

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars analyze Greek sculpture. In this Greek sculpture lesson, students review the roles and responsibilities of the Gods and Goddesses in the Greek pantheon. Young scholars compare the way Greek Gods are portrayed and sculpt...
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Curated OER

A Haring Holiday

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a holiday ornament. For this Keith Haring art lesson, students use paper mache to make 3-dimensional ornaments that resemble his work. Students cut out felt shapes of babies, dogs and angels then sew them together...
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Joe Fafard

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students study the life and work of Joe Fafard. In this art lesson, students describe the principles of design. They produce their own artwork at the end of the lesson.
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The Android Factory

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students explore the idea that primitive virtual 3D objects can be reshaped to infinitely original combinations using additive and subtractive methods. They create 3-D objects with a computer which necessitates a cooperation of...
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Curated OER

Four-Legged Creatures In Amaco Cloud Clay

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars create a creature using Amaco cloud clay. In this sculpting instructional activity, students use clay, toothpicks, and clay modeling tools to create a unique clay creature. Young scholars shape the clay into a...
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Curated OER

Art--"Paper Pasting"--Doing Collage

For Students 4th - 6th
In this art instructional activity, students read a 1 page article on the history or art, prepare their background to making a collage, gather basic shapes, create their collage and then add in the finishing touches to them.
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Bubble, Bubble, Soil and Fun!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders experiment to find the physical properties and commercial uses of the mineral talc. They create a soapstone sculpture and a rubric for the creation.
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The Landscape

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students create works of art that portray their connection to their environment, construct class sculptural landscape, record changes to their environment since their grandparents' time, and paint one referenced art work from new...
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Curated OER

Creepy Crawlies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in several insect-themed activities. They read stories on bugs, write stories about insects with student-made illustrations, sing bug-themed songs, design creepy crawlies with typical insect characteristics and make...
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Curated OER

Create a 3-D Community Model

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the term community.  In this Social Studies instructional activity, 7th graders develop a definition of the term community.  Students create a sculpture that is related to their community.
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Curated OER

Creative Glass Casting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students carve clay and create glass art. For this glass casting lesson plan, students use a kiln to fire up clay and make glass into the clay sculpture they created.
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Conceptual Art

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the different ways language is used in conceptual art. In this conceptual art lesson, students analyze artworks that emphasize ideas over form and the methods used in conceptual art. Students work in pairs to read and...
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Curated OER

Painted Chairs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers evaluate visual arts by creating furniture designs. In this three dimensional art activity, students utilize the web to examine different artist renderings of furniture, sculpture and architecture. Middle schoolers...
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Combating Corrosion

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Study corrosion on bronze statues with a hands-on activity. As pupils place a penny in water with salt, they observe the changes in the penny throughout a period of a week. They then analyze the pre-conservation and the...
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Oleh Yudin

iCrosss

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
Did you know that a soccer ball is very similar to a truncated icosahedron? Both have 32 faces, but while a truncated icosahedron is made up solely of flat hexagons, a traditional soccer ball has 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, each curved...
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Curated OER

New Ideas, New Materials

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners create a three dimensional work while exploring the use of unconventional materials to create specific textures and designs. They explore basic concepts such as volume, form, texture and balance.

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