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Gallery Crawl
Students explore art and artists from a specific country. While on a field trip to an area art museum, students choose one painting to sketch. After researching the chosen painting, students prepare a presentation in the targeted...
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Pear-Shaped Bottle
Students describe the designs on this Chinese ceramic bottle and analyze and discuss the shape of the piece. They describe how art from China arrived in Mexico during the viceregal period. Students create their own blue monochromatic...
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Tempera Batik
Students utilize elements and principles of design and develop strong composition. They explore colors, contrast and simplification of forms. They sketch in pencil, then trace in chalk before applying their paint.
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It's A Jungle Out There -Tempera
Sixth graders explore master paintings by Rousseau. They explain how the artist creates depth by overlapping images. They design and create an "imaginary" tropical landscape for a tempera painting.
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Outside - Inside Drawings
Students use observational drawing to study the unfamiliar They use oil pastels to mix/blend colors. They be introduced to using drawing as a tool for documenting what we can learn from close observation.
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Alexander Calder: Master of Balance
Students build simple mobiles. In this equilibrium lesson, students investigate the functions of three types of levers as they analyze artwork by Alexander Calder. Students then create their own simplified mobiles.
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Clearly Classified
Learners investigate plants and insects. In this science classification lesson, students create separate categories for insects and plants by characteristics. Learners discover scientific names of insects.
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The Poetry Of Chinoiserie
Learners examine works of art that incorporate Asian export objects, and then respond to them using Japanese haiku poems. discuss the subject and meaning in a work of art. They explain the basic ideas behind Japanese haiku poetry.
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Multi Media "self" Presentation
Students create a three-five minute presentation that visually illustrates major aspects of the their lives. Using Movie Works software as a base, they integrate video, photography, artwork, graphic elements, and sound to produce the...
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Fantasy Visualization
Students view and discuss a selection of paintings from Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and other Surrealist artists. They play a game in which each person in a group writes a sentence and passes it on to the next person without letting...
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Painting Music
Pupils convey the concept that music expresses different moods. Using paint, students draw various artistic elements that convey the mood of a piece of music they hear in class. They complete an analysis of classical paintings and how...
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Christo/Transformations--from Discovering Great Artists
pupils challenge their imaginations like the artist Christo by transforming an everyday object into something new. Students use everyday objects in order to create something new. Pupils use materials such as objects found in nature to...
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Still Movement
Students explore constant motion. Using photography equipment and a dark room, students develop photographs that depict motion. Students demonstrate the proper use of photograph equipment.
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Oceanography Class Quilt
Students create and observe a collage of oceanography topics that be placed on quilt tiles in a culmination art project to represent information learned.
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Who Am I? A Look at Portraits
Students examine a variety of portrait examples in order to visualize how information is portrayed in the pictures. They create a portrait.
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Photographs as an Artist's Tool
Students learn about Eakins use of photography as a tool for painting. They apply use of photography in their own painting or drawing. They incorporate time of day, composition and positioning of human subject in their own painting or...
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Insect Anatomy
Students explore the anatomy of an insect. In this activity the characteristics of insects, students explore parts of an insect. Students gain knowledge through pictures and charts showing insects and their body parts. Students will...
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A Child: Past And Present, Rich And Poor
Ninth graders analyze universal human rights. They examine their causes, consequences, and possible solutions, and discuss selected global issues. They plan and evaluate age appropriate actions to support peace and sustainability in our...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Cezanne's Still Lifes
Students will view film footage of Paul Cezanne's actual studio in Aix-en-Provence and compare objects they see to his drawings and paintings in the National Gallery of Art collection. By selecting and arranging objects of their choice,...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: How Observant Are You?
Pop artists of the 1960s encouraged people to look more closely at the everyday objects around them. How observant are your students? This lesson plan focuses on observation, memory, and home and classroom environments.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Drawing (Lesson Plans)
Forty creative lesson plans on drawing for students of all ages! Each one gives an example, a list of materials, and step-by-step directions. Many of the activities also provide a list of books, vocabulary, extensions, and more!
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Ite: 'Madame De Pompadour at Her Tambour Frame'
See an example of how one teacher used the painting of Madame de Pompadour in her classroom to develop a lesson for a personal still life.
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Teacher's Notes Touring Partnership Exhibition
Five paintings and their artists are discussed in these notes. Also included are some suggestions on using the painting in the primary classroom, ideas for activities and cross-curricular links.