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Sweet Stuff
Eighth graders become familiar with the artworks of Wayne Thiebaud. They focus on the works that depict sweets and use thickened paint. They discuss the size and visuals of Thiebaud's work and the balance that is so necessary in such...
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The Average Kid
Students determine the traits they have in common with other students in the class and create visual profiles of the "average" boy and the "average" girl.
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Geometrically Artistic/Artistically Geomtric
Learners identify the two-dimensional geometric shapes Lowrey utilized in the painting Untitled. Students compare the two-dimensional shapes in terms of equivalent fractions, congruency, symmetry and asymmetry. Learners create their own...
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Staghorn Coral
Students recognize that staghorn coral helps reef growth in the Caribbean. In this Coral Reef lesson, students design a habitat model using various art materials to explain how staghorn coral helps the reef grow. Students share...
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Objects of Adornment
Students identify adornments as a form of art. In this art and jewelry lesson, students view portraits of two historical princess noticing their adornments, then draw a person in their life focusing on the adornments they wear.
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Cherokee Leaf Printing
Young scholars investigate their local creeks and forests and practice identifying trees. For this ecology identification lesson plan, students utilize a pad and pencil while on a field trip near their school and describe their...
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Geometry and Tony Smith Sculpture
Young scholars respond to Tony Smith's sculpture as art and brainstorm about math concepts inherent in his work. They create a sculpture with polyhedra nets, calculate the cost of covering sculpture in gold, and write an exhibit label...
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Mixed Media Messages: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Students examine the process of recycling by creating a mock television commercial about recycling. In this recycling lesson, students watch an animated demonstration about recycling and answer content questions. Students play an online...
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Indiana Travel Guide
Fourth graders, after exploring and researching the state of Indiana, create a travel guide about the state of Indiana including its capital, major rivers, governors and two famous people from the state. They utilize a variety of art...
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Sandpaper Drawings
Students examine sand art pictures from different cultures. They create their own examples of sand art.
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TISSUE PAINTING
Students designs a unique tissue painting by filling in the sketch with selected colored tissue paper and its placement.
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Picture Your Numbers
Students play a variation of the Concentration game to practice math skills matching numbers with visual pictures. They have 20 cards, ten with pictures of items drawn on them. They other ten are numbered. They try to match correct pairs.
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Images of Children in Dorothea Lange's Photographs
Students look carefully at two photographs by Dorothea Lange for elements of art and narrative content. They use descriptive language when speaking and writing about Lange's photographs of studenT lives.
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Self-Portraits
Eighth graders practice the techniques of color, face proportion, emotion through color, and how to integrate handheld applications in Art projects in this Art lesson for the 8th grade classroom. Self-Portraits are used and emphasized in...
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Miniature Stained Glass Designs
Third graders view examples of previous miniature stain glass designs. After making their own frame out of craft sticks, they create their own design using colored paper. They outline each piece with a black marker and share them with...
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15 Two-Block Quilts
Students create two block quilts after studying about continuity of lines, use of coloring, and highlighting adjacent pieces. Students complete the design into the border. Students cut the required material pieces to create their quilt...
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Illustrating and Writing a Short Story
Middle schoolers use their art materials to go outside and draw a picture of a scene. They can also write down specific notes in a small spiral notebook about the scene they want to remember so they can write their stories. They complete...
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Albatross Eye Shadow
Students practice shading techniques to mimic the exquisite shading of the Albatross eye (eye shadow). Extension for students skilled in computer art included.
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Tip Ins - "Games People Play"
High schoolers use different design techniques such as collage, paint, pencil, etc., to show the theme of "games people play."
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Illustrating Endangered Species
Young scholars conduct research to answer the questions for each section. They critique a work of art using the levels of art criticism. Also they prepare gathered facts for a final presentation.
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Statement of Principles
Learners examine how Neoclassical art conveyed moral and ethical ideas. They create their own works of art that serve as social commentaries.
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Sandpaper Drawings
Students examine images of sand art from different cultures. They create their own version of a sand art picture.
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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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From Commonplace to Mythic
Students examine a selection of paintings by Jean-Francois Millet to explore both the objective and subjective levels of art critique.