Elementary Art Education Articles for Teachers - Page 3

Water has played a significant role in the life and culture of this planet. In science lessons students learn about the water cycle and how all living things depend on water for survival.  In history activities students learn that many civilizations based their settlements and economies on ...

  Thanksgiving art activities often focus on plump pumpkins and colorful turkeys. This season art specialists also can consider projects with a little more “meat”, integrating poetry, cooperative learning, cultural explorations, and art resources into holiday-themed lessons. Because Thanksgi...

Halloween art lesson plans often include traditional crafts like painting pumpkins, cutting ghosts and bats from construction paper, and designing haunted houses. This season many art specialists also consider Halloween art projects focused on another common Halloween theme: masks! A mask is an...

Project-based learning offers students the opportunity to work cooperatively on authentic tasks with real-world relevance.  While projects are curriculum-based, students lead their own inquiry into topics. Because performance is assessed, project-based learning accommodates a variety o...

For many new kindergarten students the instruction “Please get in line!” is new and unfamiliar. While forming lines is a part of everyday life for the rest of the population, in kindergarten forming and staying in lines while traveling about the school is a yearlong skill to improve on. In art ...

At the start of the school year, one of the first goals of every teacher is to make each group of students feel like a team. Working cooperatively and collaboratively on a whole-class art project is a great way to form the bonds of classroom community. And art teachers can also be role models fo...

Even if you haven't used art portfolios in the past, there are easy ways to get started. Many teachers use large folders, folded pieces of tag board, or oversized envelopes to store student artwork. Other ideas include asking local pizza parlors to donate clean, unused pizza boxes or putting recy...