- Broadway Classroom-
Broadway Classroom offers workshops for groups attending Broadway shows
to enrich their theatrical experience! The site features a great deal
of show information and educator resources for integrating Broadway
into the classroom.
- Chinese Kites-
The objective for this lesson was for each student to make their own
kite and fly it.
- Crayon
Rubbing Art Project- This lesson is a fun art activity to do with
students who are learning about primary and secondary colors. It also
introduces the students to the difference between soft and hard edges.
- Creating
Comic Strips- To learn art-related skills of drawing and sequencing
drawings by creating comic strips.
- Crown
Making- This lesson is to help students learn about using geometric
shapes, overlapping, repetition, and paper sculpture.
- Developing
an Awareness of Gender Bias in Art Interpretation- Students will
discuss and write about ways that gender bias may influence the ways
in which they interpret pieces.
- Express
Themselves-Students will demonstrate an understanding of expressionism
by creating a portrait of a friend who inspires a mood or feeling.
- Eyes on
Art- Activities complete with quizzes.
- Flexible
Thinking Using Squiggle Art- The purpose of this activity is to
create an atmosphere and a feeling of success in creativity.
- Flipping
Butterflies: Triadic Colors and Symmetry- Students will view various
different butterfly wing shapes noticing a difference in every one.
Primary color mixing will be reviewed.
- Geometry Through
Art- An interdisciplinary unit.
- Home School Arts- Lessons
on pen & ink, graphite, pencil, perspective, watercolor, and pastel.
- KidsArt- KidsArt features art
teaching resources, FREE art and crafts lessons, a gallery of student
art, games and mad-libs for teachers and homeschoolers, families and
artistic kids. We produce the "Master's Gallery" art history section
for the popular PBS TV show, Imagination Station, and have an extensive
on-line gallery of images and stories from the program. Visit our Quick
Art section and Top Ten lists.
- Kinder Art- Serving
all the needs of Art teachers. A great site!
- Lesson Plans (ArtsEdNet)-
A variety of teaching and learning materials, including many art images.
- Macaroni
Skeleton Art- This exercise is a fun and exciting way to get the
students involved and help learn the bones, muscles and joints.
- Mark Kistler's Imagination Station-
Learn to draw in 3-D.
- Melted
Crayons- Students will learn that there are different ways to use
crayons in art.
- Mixing
Primary And Secondary Colors Using Playdoh- This is a visual teaching
method and reinforcement of primary-secondary colors and color mixing.
- Monochromatic
Painting- This activity is designed to create a connection between
art and language, and to generate critical discussion.
- Monster
Art- The children can create monsters using chalk and black construction
paper, but they do not have to draw the blood and guts! This lesson
could be used around Halloween or any time.
- Origami-
Students will demonstrate the ability to use paper folding by understanding
the Japanese culture, and some of the reasons why it is believed that
Origami was started.
- Origami
Ducks- Students will demonstrate their knowledge of shapes and ability
to follow directions by creating a paper duck.
- Painting
like an Impressionist- This is an activity that teaches the basic
techniques of painting like an Impressionistic artist.
- Pebble
Painting- Students will be collecting and using pebbles to create
painting designs.
- Perspective
Drawing- Shows how to make a drawing look 3-D.
- Pictograph
Stone Carving- The student uses the information they have learned
about early methods of communication (pictographs, petrographs, hieroglyphics)
and apply it to the creation of their own message or story in the stone.
- Scenery
Box- The students will be creating a scenery box. They can make
anything they want to put in the box.
- Telling
a Painting's Story- Designed to help others imagine what the painting
looks like. Afterward, students write stories about their paintings
based on their descriptions.
- The
Courtroom- The students in the class will be able to explain and
identify the names of jobs available in a typical courtroom.
- The
"What I Learned..." T-Shirt- The students will design and make their
own t-shirt. The t-shirt will read "What I learned about________ is
that ___________".
- There
Is A Nightmare In My Closet- Students will demonstrate their understanding
of concepts illustrated in "There's a Nightmare in My Closet" by creating
an art project, based on the book.
- They Put On Masks-
Students learn the reverence of mask making from several cultures, besides
their own. Students experience the cooperative learning spirit.
- Three-dimensional
Crown Technique- Crown making is a fun activity for children because
they come away with something that they can wear.
- Valentine
Vase- Create a Valentine vase to brighten up your room with heart
flowers.
- Water
Color Crayon Resist- The crayon will resist the watercolor ,and
if the student used a white crayon, the picture will show up like magic.
- Watercolor
Butterfly- Students will have fun making a beautiful butterfly,
see the effects of salt and watercolor and learn about the anatomy of
a butterfly all at the same time.
- What
Did They Say? Interpretation of Criticism- Through the group reading
of pre-selected critiques, students will learn aesthetic qualities and
terms of art criticism.
- Who
will BEE my secret Valentine?- This is a lesson for an art activity
dealing with Valentine's Day lasting approx. a week.
- Yellow
or White Crayon Resist- This lesson plan will help students define
the different types of lines and that lines create shapes, forms, rhythm
and texture.
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