Use craft sticks to make a picture frame for parents. A great activity that can be themed for many occasions.

Students create a picture book of the U.S. presidents. They study general information about the U.S. presidents, write a sentence about each president, and create a picture book about the U.S. presidents.

Students advocate for people with disabilities. In this Helen Keller lesson, students listen to the story A Picture Book of Helen Keller by David A Adler. Students discuss how Helen Keller learned to communicate and became an advocate...

Using Microsoft Word and the blank "Jack and Jill" templates provided, class members find picture files of themselves and create a written photo ID document to be printed and lamented for the classroom. The instructional activity is...

Students create stories using only pictures.  For this visual storytelling lesson, students read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie de Paola and analyze the wordless story.  Students create new text for the book by writing on...

Students use a CD case, foam tiles, and a picture of themselves to make a picture frame. In this picture frame lesson plan, students can use a picture of themselves or a drawing.

Fifth graders will enhance their typing skills and practice using Pages, a software for Mac computers, by writing their own children's book. Note: This lesson plan refers to a template that is not included, however, you can adapt this...

Students examine photographs, paintings and drawings convey meaning and mood. The ability to 'read' a picture is an important literary skill. This activity gives students the opportunity to tell a story through pictures by creating a...

Students use wordless picture books to examine elements regarding a story, the plot, and characters. For this wordless picture books lesson, students select a book to creatively discuss. Students then listen to the teacher read the story...

Students view slides from the movie "Hoot" and discuss characters, setting and the caption. They identify where in the rise and fall of the plot this scene takes place. They brainstorm elements needed to create a story from a picture....

Students paint farm animals. In this farm animal lesson, students paint pictures of farm animals during one thirty minute session. They cut out and glue the pictures on a picture of a farm which they also painted in the second session.

Students use pictures to help them communicate their ideas. They write personal books or journals using pictures. Students can create daily blogs usig the internet and create a weekly newsletter.

Third graders create a graphic organizer. They draw illustrations that show the beginning, middle and end of a trip they took to visit a friend or a relative. They write age-appropriate text to accompany each drawing. They tell...

Students look at the geometry in an artwork. In this art history/geometry lesson, students research the artist Charles Sheeler and look at his painting Stacks in Celebration. They find the different types of lines, angles, and...

Students create an alphabet book using the program Publisher on the computer. They choose a letter and they make a page that contains the letter and pictures of objects that begin with that letter.

Students use cereal boxes, paint, buttons and glue to design and make a frame for a photograph. They consider the different processes involved in making the frame and discuss how their observations apply to manufacturing systems that are...

Young learners explore what it means to be respectful. This resource includes a two page chart depicting rules for different settings at school such, as the cafeteria and the playground. What does following the rules look like? What does...

Students explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France, students discover that pictures are more than pretty colors.

Students take pictures through out the school year. They make a PowerPoint presentation to show off their best photos of the year. They make a CD of their PowerPoint an keep it as a portfolio. They share their presentation with the class.

Do your language arts students love to draw? Use this lesson plan to reinforce poetic techniques with illustration. After drawing what they think poem would look like with no words, middle and high schoolers work on several different...

Students create a book. In this vocabulary and word identification lesson, students make a book by gluing pictures on construction paper, then the teacher writes words in the book to label each picture.

Students practice composing digital photographs by documenting activities in their lives.  In this photography lesson, students utilize digital cameras to create beautiful art from things they find around the campus or at their...

Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. In this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.

A super lesson plan that integrates technology and career exploration! High schoolers use graphic organizers and brainstorming to first analyze Time Magazine covers, then they think about what they want to be doing in 10 years. They...