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3-D Design - Painting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain elements of relief sculpture. They create a sculpture from foam. They identify characteristics of the art of Clayton Pond and Pop Art. They develop skills in working with color.
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Bas Relief Paintings

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Budding artists are introduced to a new medium for Bas Relief sculpture: block printing linoleum. They design and sculpt a dimensional piece of artwork, creating a variety of textures, lines and depths. This engaging lesson should excite...
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DRYWALL CARVING

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students study relief sculpture and architectural elements, discuss Egyptian hieroglyphics and relief sculptures that can be seen on Roman and Greek structures, and create a relief sculpture using drywall.
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Relief Drawing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers choose an interesting view for an art relief project. They outline their composition, and shade their relief using charcoal pencil. The results are fabulous! One nice thing about this art project is that the materials...
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Creating a Bas-Relief Sculpture

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students create a small bas-relief sculpture of an animal in clay. They roll out a background, and build up the clay on the back ground to represent themselves and an animal. Pieces are dried and fired, then combined with others to...
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Sports Cardboard Relief Sculpture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the artwork of Frank Stella and create a piece of art that represents a sport.
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The Adoration of Shepherds

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars create bas-relief sculptures of themselves after studying the principles of bas-relief sculpture.
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Comparative Sculpture Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders view original artwork, define the art form sculpture, discuss similarities and differences between the examples provided, discuss the three-dimensional quality of each example given, and create and critique their own artwork.
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Make Your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore environmental awareness through reusing materials. In this environmental awareness lesson, students use trash to create a "trashasaurus," a large dinosaur sculpture made from waste. Detailed structure and papier-mâché...
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Our community-in sculpture form

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design tiles that represent their community. They discuss ideas with another class through email. They then create the tiles, fire them, and attach them to a masonite board to create a community mural.
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Egyptian Masks

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the different types of Egyptian art including relief sculpture, sculpture in the round, and Egyptian architecture. They view and discuss pictures of Egyptian sarcophagi and compare them with current day coffins...
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Bust Of Virgo, Bust Of Pisces

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students analyze the relief designs of Petra and design their own personal sacred image in the same style using plaster of Paris or Model Magic. This lesson plan should be completed within 45-minutes of starting construction due to the...
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Come Tool Along With Me

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars create metallic Bas-relief scultures using basic art supplies and the technique of "tooling" in this Art lesson with croos-curricular connections in Social Studies and Math. A scoring rubric is included for assessment and...
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Scratch, Glue, Foil & Paint

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners sculpt large Greek and Roman letter design motifs, and replicate other examples of Greek and Roman artwork.
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Express Yourself: Make Art From Your Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze and discuss various sculptures by the artist Andrea Arroyo. They discuss ways artists use symbols to express abstract ideas, design and create a plasticine plaque, and write a journal response.
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Pendants

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students examine visual arts by creating a piece of jewelery. In this art analysis lesson, students identify the work of Keith Haring by researching the Internet. Students utilize tools and clay to create their own wearable art which...
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Draw Like an Egyptian

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the cultural history of Egypt by illustrating Egyptian figures.  In this art history lesson, students analyze the Egyptian styles of figure drawings and emulate that by creating their own illustrations using an...
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Junk to You, Art to Me

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners are introduced to assemblages and view a variety of examples. They critique selected artworks and discuss the benefits to the community by creating art out of junk. They create an assemblage where they choose objects that...
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African Art: Ntan Drum

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners study African history, anthropology and culture using the lens of the art object, Ntan Drum. Lesson and instruction is differentiated for elementary, middle and high school students.
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Cast A Paper Valentine

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners create and learn about the history of Valentine's Day cards, as well as use recyclable materials to design their own cards.