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Interview The Artists
Students examine athe role of art, music and film in Russian society.
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Printmaking for Grades K-2
Students design and create their own stamps as well as practice the art of printmaking. They cut a variety of shapes from "Easy-cut foam" and glue them to a cardboard base to create their print.
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Me, My Digital Self, and Eye
Learners create digital self-portraits for use in a collage. In this technology instructional activity, students create an original work of art in which they identify a variety of images that reflect their personality. ...
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Fiddling Around
Students look at a piece of art to make connections between early Baroque art and Baroque music. In this art and music instructional activity, students focus on the painting The Boy Violinist, by Hendrick Terbrugghen. They listen to the...
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Language, As Experienced Through Pin-Hole Photography
Students read about and discuss photographic principles and, under the direction of the art teacher, construct individual cameras from heavy black cardboard and thin sheet metal with a hole for the lens and black tape for the shutter.
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Eric Carle Collage
Students gain appreciation for the work of Eric Carle. They speculate about a work of art, what materials, techniques and skills were used. They study Carle's work to determine how he did it and explore various water color techniques.
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All Aboard the Safety Train
Students listen to a story about safety around trains and participate in story retelling students complete an art project.
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Mobile Forces
Students design and build original mobiles and consider how the forces of gravity and convection air currents affect the finished piece. They explore how an understanding of balancing forces is important in both art and engineering design.
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Once Upon a Time
Learners examine how music and sound affect their creation of artwork. They view art images online, create three hybrid collage creatures, develop a list of hero characteristics, and write an adventure story for a character they have...
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Basic Word
Students create a poster of a weather-related word. In this weather instructional activity, students randomly choose a weather word, define it, and draw a picture of it. They also use Word Art to create the title of their poster.
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Painting Techniques- Impressionism
Students investigate impressionist painting techniques. In this visual arts lesson, students view paintings by Monet and practice the dot and stroke technique. Students use shades of green and gentle brush strokes to create grass in...
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Book Smarts
Young scholars identify the ideas and themes that are most significant in a work of literature, then propose ways to visually represent these themes through art.
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Chinese Kite
Students create their own Chinese kite. For this multicultural art lesson, students use butcher paper, newspapers, string, pipe cleaners and paint to create a Chinese kite. Students follow the given steps and attempt to fly their kite.
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Friendship
Learners investigate the concept of friendship as part of a four lessons unit which integrates literature with language arts, family life, social studies, or religious studies. Peace, cooperation, social justice, and multicultural...
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"Exploring Shakespeare" An Introduction of Character and "Hamlet"
Students examine the literary terms "round character" and "characterization" through the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. They view and discuss examples of clip art, video, and comic strips, and describe the character traits. ...
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ALL ABOUT ME
Students create a short PowerPoint about themselves. They brainstorm and record on board slide ideas for an "All About Me" PowerPoint. They use different backgrounds on each slide. Clip Art is also utilized.
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Welcome to the Neighborhood
In this neighborhood worksheet, learners write five words from the word families -ar, -ark, and -art. Students write their answers in the windows of the corresponding word family's house.
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Aboriginal Quilting Activity
Students explore Aboriginal culture by participating in an art activity. In this First Nation history activity, students utilize the Internet to research images and designs from Native American culture. Students create images on quilting...
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Using Adjectives
In this language arts lesson, students listen to the book "Many Luscious Lollipops," in order to become familiar with adjectives. Students create four comic strip squares, using five adjectives in each square, after
hearing the book....
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"You Can't Catch Me!"-Introducing Young Children to the School Setting
Students use photography to create art projects.
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THE LITTLE RED HEN - A TALE OF COOPERATION
Students explore how much pleasure reading can bring, explain the concept of "story sequence", "re-tell" a story through art, and read other folktales.
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Picture This
Students create a descriptive paragraph conveying ideas utilizing a personal photograph as a prompt for their writing. This concept includes the writers emotions, personal issues, education, art and photography. They share insights to...
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Discovering Math-Concepts in Advanced Algebra
Young scholars research The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art and Chinese contributions to mathematics using both print and non-print sources. From their research they create an illustrated table of contents for each chapter of the...
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Story Starters
These language arts worksheets present a picture and a space for the teacher to type a word list for the students to use in the story. The word list can relate to the picture, be sight words, or spelling and vocabulary words.
