Even the littlest learners can become art historians if they have the right training. For the lesson, your preschoolers discuss the piece Long Jakes as they point out all the details they notice. They discuss what mountains and mountain...

Students engage in a lesson about the creation of landscape paintings. This activity is meant to be done before visiting a museum. They examine the works of art in order to become familiar with the style and recreate them. Then students...

Eighth graders discuss various medias and techniques artists use in portrait design. Using carbon paper and photos, 8th graders make four images on paper. They create portraits using felt tip pens, water colors, and colored pencils.

Eighth graders design and create a tile mosaic in a public place inspired by the work of artist Keith Haring.  In this Haring Mosaic instructional activity, based on an actual project in Germany, 8th graders study the artist's work,...

Students examine and develop artwork that shows women's roles during different eras. In this women's role instructional activity, students look at artwork that shows women at work during the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century....

Pupils create believable self-portraits incorporating selected food items as details, forms, and texturesThe compositional focus is a head-and-shoulders portrait appropriate to the food theme resulting in a humorous illustration. Written...

Students draw pictures that make them feel either warm or cool using only the warm and cool colors.

When little ones make things out of clay they're not just exercising their creativity, they are following directions, developing fine motor skills, and building a sense of pride in their work. First graders use the pinch-and-score...

Students write whatever comes into their minds quickly and extend that strategy to art. They draw whatever ideas come to mind and students create in a stream of consciousness style. They listen to different types of music while drawing.

Students examine relationships between music and color, emotion and imagery, listen to different passages of music, and visually depict what they hear.

Students use the elements of art and principles of design to explore value. In this color value lesson, students use the portrait of a a face to help them understand color value, tints, shades and tones.

Students quilt to create a personal design. In this quilting lesson, students follow the steps listed in order to patchwork quilt that represents themselves in art.

Fourth graders examine and demonstrate how to create a middle ground, background, and foreground on a picture or work of art. They identify middle ground, background, and foreground on Michael Sowa's works of art, then create their own...

Students visualize a character or event and personalize it through drawings.

Sixth graders, through lecture, discover the work of artist, Alexander Caulder. They view pictures of Caulder's work and then identify his work from a variety of art pictures. They make a mobile in the Caulder style, using one of the...

Young scholars discuss a narrative work of art, then write stories describing the action and publish their stories and illustrations in books.

Students explore sculpture. In this lesson about finding sculpture ideas in movement and rhythm, students make 3-dimensional shapes. Students create a sculpture paying attention to balance, rhythm and repetition. Students will understand...

Students re-create an image from a marine life scene. They are given a single square of the entire picture to focus on. When all squares are completed, the picture is assembled.

Third graders visualize and create a map to outline scenes from the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. They understands the importance of organizing information when making maps and giving directions.

Students analyze Simple Answer, by John Cleaveland, and use this image to inspire a short story. They use both verbal and visual language to help them create the characters and the plot. The lesson plan contains steps that helps the...

Students examine works of grid art by the painter Chuck Close. They discuss the process of creating a drawing using a grid, view images of grid art, and create a grid drawing.

Twelfth graders read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and choose the ten most important adventures of the novel for a timeline activity. In this Huckleberry Finn lesson, 12th graders read the novel and list the adventures. Student...

Middle schoolers discover the use of personification as a way of expressing ideals.  In this Language Arts lesson, students create an allegorical depiction of a contemporary ideal.  Middle schoolers write labels that clearly...

Students examine the reading comprehension strategy of visualization. They practice visualization by making pictures in their mind. They draw the pictures from their visualizations with explanations.