Students evaluate visual arts by creating a mural on campus. In this symbolism instructional activity, students research famous artists on the Internet and examine the impact their work has had on society. Students create murals around...

Sixth graders engage in a visual arts lesson featuring still life sketching and watercolor painting created by individual students.

Let's get to know the lowercase letters k and l. Scholars become familiar with both in this visual matching instructional activity. After tracing and printing each letter, they add them to an incomplete alphabet. Then, they draw lines...

Students create their own work of art that serves as a social commentary. For this art statement lesson, students research how art conveyed moral and ethical ideals during the Neoclassical period and create a drawing that addresses...

Students draw a dog. In this drawing instructional activity, students discover how to tap into their right brain dominance by sketching a picture upside down. Students draw a picture resembling Picasso's "The Dog".

Students draw a butterfly. In this drawing lesson plan, students explore a drawing upside down. Students sketch a butterfly while the image is reversed to tap into their right brain dominance.

Students sketch a picture. In this drawing lesson, students sketch Matisse's "La Pompadour". In an attempt to tap into their artistic side, students turn the picture upside down to sketch.

Students explore works by French painter Jean-Leon Gerome. In this visual arts lesson, students investigate the use of perspective in Gerome's work and then make their own drawings that feature the use of perspective.

Sixth graders explore the concept of Sojourner.  In this visual arts lesson, student create a model of Sojourner using recyclable or "junk" materials.  Students are encouraged to experiment and problem solve to find what works...

Pupils study the historical figures depicted on the quarter and explore how symbols of U.S. patriotism were used in its various designs. They research symbols of Texas and choose one to draw in a design for a Texas quarter. in addition,...

Young scholars study the historical figures depicted on the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and explore how symbols of U.S. patriotism were used in their design. They research symbols of Texas and choose one to draw in a design for a...

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...

Geometers explore the concept of tessellations. They use a tessellation applet to manipulate shapes and design their own tessellation using the applet.

The use of perspective is clear in Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte. Pupils study and discuss this example, marking the vanishing points and horizon line of a photocopy of the piece. They then create their own urban scene...

Learn about how the seeing eye dog program began with a reading instructional activity about Eva Moore's chapter book, Buddy, The First Seeing Eye Dog. With vocabulary words, discussion questions, and extension resources, the...

Students create large-scale 3 dimensional forms out of 2-dimensional material. They draw figures in various positions on lightweight poster board. Then they cut them out and fit them together and stapled or taped them into place on a base.

Students explore a variety of sayings and phrases used in the English language in the seventeen lessons of this unit. Through visual, auditory, and kinestic activities, students are immersed in the study of the English language.

Young scholars analyze and evaluate the effects of abstraction and realism on depictions of the human form in ancient and modern-day cultures.

Students demonstrate effective collaboration, the ability to review their own work and that of others, and understand that a sculpture can express a moodor feeling. They listen to "Word Up" by Cameo. Students watch a slide show of...

Students discuss methods of building forms with clay (ball and variations, snake, flat sheets). They draw a stick figure of what their sculpture may look like, including correct figure proportion.

High schoolers view images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art web site, and list the objects and figures in the image. They discuss the way their eyes move around the canvas and take note of where their eyes fall, follow and finish....

Students examine Rembrandt's "Abduction of Europa." In this Greek art lesson plan, students discuss how the artist has taken an ancient Greek myth and contemporized it. Students read origin myths and choose a scene to illustrate in...

Students discover propaganda.  In this Greek mythology instructional activity, students discuss meanings of ancient art work with their class.  Students investigate the dishonesty behind propaganda.  

Young scholars create a foil sculpture representative of a human figure and a landscape drawing as a backdrop for their figure.