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Working Safely With Art Materials
Safety practices that should be considered when working with art materials.
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Some Ideas About Composition and Design
Starts with explaining visual elements, goes through design principles, balance, visual effects, and more. Teaching tips included too.
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Eleven Classroom Creativity Killers
Something for every art educator to read and consider. Bartel outlines 9 things that most teachers do in the classroom that potentially kill their student's creativity.
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Successful Art Class Critique
Not sure how to conduct a class critique? This article will give you some helpful tips. You can even print critique sheets to use in your art room.
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Art Rubric an Artwork Assessment Form
You can print out this art rubric and use it to evaluate your student's work. It is universal enough to be used for all ages and for all projects.
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Art Rubric an Artwork Assessment Form
You can print out this art rubric and use it to evaluate your student's work. It is universal enough to be used for all ages and for all projects.
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Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
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Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
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Planning Art Lessons
For the new art teacher or the veteran. This is a helpful reminder of ways to organize your teaching methods. It could spark some life (back) into your classrooms.
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Bird Ritual
This opening art exercise, although intended to increase art fluency, would be a great motivation for a lesson on Brancusi's "Bird in Space."
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Goshen College: Literary Analysis Guide
This resource not only explains how to analyze a text, but also, provides student examples of literary texts. W.9-10.9b Research/Argum, RI.11-12.5 Evaluate text structure
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Goshen College: Personal Clay Box Ceramic Lesson Plan
This lesson plan uses the slab method to create a clay box decorated to express the individual.
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Surreal Animals
A round-robin clay lesson where each student passes their animal to a neighbor and he/she adds to what is there. This is a great way to teach collaboration or teamwork as well as getting your students to loosen up.
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Learning to Draw by Making It Easier for the Right Brain
Some simple drawing tips to apply to your classroom. Help your students find success in their drawing endeavors.
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Learning to Draw by Making It Easier for the Right Brain
Some simple drawing tips to apply to your classroom. Help your students find success in their drawing endeavors.
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Motivating Non Drawing Students
Marvin Bartel writes this article in hopes of helping you find a way to reach the students who insist "I can't draw."
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Motivating Non Drawing Students
Marvin Bartel writes this article in hopes of helping you find a way to reach the students who insist "I can't draw."
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The Blinder Drawing Game
A drawing game that wakes up the right side of the brain. Everyone is a winner if they participate!
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Art Department: Self Portrait Montage
Take the pressure off your students of drawing the human face. With this lesson create a self-portrait with collage materials.
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What Can an Art Teacher Do?
What do we do as educators when tragedy strikes our life? Is art the answer? This article outlines some good suggestions on how to handle hard times in the lives of your students.
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Goshen College: Art Rituals in the Classroom
Article suggests the use of opening and closing rituals in the art classroom for the purposes of centering students on art learning.
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Goshen College: Art Aesthetics and Art Criticism Handouts
Marvin Bartel, Ed.D., provides useful handouts for critiquing artwork and for assessing students' abilities to write and discuss art intelligently.
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Visual Art: The Conversation Game
When we prompt our students to create art based on "self," how many of us get generic pictures or simple ideas? This game is designed to stretch each student's self list so that they have a wide variety of expressive ideas to choose from.
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Shading in Drawing
After contour drawing is mastered this tutorial is great for anyone who is a beginner at shading a drawing. Gives suggestions on how to teach shading with practical ideas.