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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Counting on Art

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Several lesson plans available for grades K-8 that take a look at math and art. Each instructional activity includes printable resources, glossary of terms, an artist biography, and national math and visual arts standards.
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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Counting on Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Several lesson plans available for grades K-8 that take a look at math and art. Each instructional activity includes printable resources, glossary of terms, an artist biography, and national math and visual arts standards.
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Website
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Kids Art Zone

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The National Gallery of Art has created this impressive gateway to make its vast collections accessible to children. Colorful, fun, and interactive. With links to an "Art Zone," where kids can make art online, to downloadable guides for...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Art Gallery

For Students K - 1st
This site offers paintings by famous artists with some information about each of them, followed by a language arts lesson. They include the following: Van Gogh (reflexive pronouns), Seurat (-ight), Gauguin (-ou), Chagall (opposites),...
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Lesson Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Early Visual Representations of the New World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that examines how Native Americans were portrayed by artists in the sixteenth century, whose aim was to convey their appearance to a European audience, and thereby encourage investment in future New World explorations. By...
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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Text and Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine the work of artist Barbara Kruger and consider how visual media, such as in print and advertising, can be constructed to influence viewers' perceptions and behaviors. Students will create their own works of art...
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Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Browse and Search Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site shares a collection of expert and peer-vetted teacher resources that are searchable for teachers and students. Searching can be achieved via a subject, grade, audience, and/or type. Curricula standards for the following subjets...
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Japan: Images of a People

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students learn to view Japanese paintings, they make a screen, and they learn about the culture of Japan. There are three lesson plans and all allow all needed materials to be downloaded.
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Activity
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Images as Messages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reviewing samples of photography that send messages to views, students will consider something in their own lives that could be captured by art and used to illustrate a meaningful message.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...