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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

To Every Thing There is a Season......

For Teachers K - 1st
A wonderful series of lessons on the four seasons. Everyone explores the seasons through looking at proper clothes, monitoring temperatures, looking at paintings of each of the seasons, and creating their own images with their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chinese Calligraphy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore Chinese culture and Chinese calligraphy. In this Chinese calligraphy lesson, students create paintings using Chinese techniques. Students describe the differences in Chinese art and other culture's art. Students listen...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Landscape Painting

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders paint a landscape that demonstrates the illusion of space.  In this visual arts lesson, 3rd graders paint a creek with reflections as the focus and include images showing foreground, middle ground, and background...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Combining Clouds and Art in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students observe landscape paintings consisting of cloud formations. In this identifying cloud types lesson, students discover different cloud types and characteristics by looking at paintings. Students paint their own pictures at the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Assembling the Mural

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this primary art worksheet, students use a couple of landscape paintings to create a wavy watered look. Students collaborate seaweed growing up from the seabed with a scatter of shells and starfish to highlight their mural.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Looking at Landscapes Lesson 3: Postcards

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students view various landscape paintings, then choose one of the landscapes they have seen that represents a place they would like to go on vacation. They simulate being on a vacation at their chosen location and write postcards to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Review of Landscapes, Portraits

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the term landscape painting, and compare several landscape paintings in their use of color, line, and shape. They create winter landscapes on paper, then observe two Renaissance portraits.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Postcards From The Wilderness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine and discuss various landscapes from the Getty Museum. They create postcards featuring landscapes that incorporate rubbings to create texture. They write letters on the backs of their postcards describing their landscapes.
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: American Visionaries: Thomas Moran

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit features the works of landscape artist Thomas Moran, whose paintings inspired the creation of Yellowstone Park in 1916. A gallery of images of his paintings is included.
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Interactive
Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

For Students 9th - 10th
A unique look at the work of a master painter. The focus of this site is on Vincent Van Gogh and his fascination with nature, particularly at night. Loads of wonderful information and colorful images in a graphically appealing site.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Japanese Artist Katsushika Hokusai

For Students 3rd - 8th
A site created by Enchanted Learning about the life and works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849 CE). Contains a short biography, links to more information, an art activity, and a printable coloring page that can also be...
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Graphic
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Tour: Constable and Turner: British Landscapes

For Students 9th - 10th
View a selection of paintings by English romantics Constable and Turner in the collections of the National Gallery. Tour has biographical and curatorial notes, along with detailed views of each painting.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Hudson River School Artists

For Students 5th - 8th
A discussion of the Americanization of painting in the early 1800s with the artists who were part of the Hudson River School of Art. Read about the new audience for their paintings and the subject matter.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Daniel Garber

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Daniel Garber is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Forms of Art Landscape Paintings

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a descriptive pieces for the artistic product of landscape paintings, their different purposes, and styles of design. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: John F. Carlson

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, John F. Carlson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Chambers

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Chambers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape and portraits. His landscape paintings famously depict the Hudson River...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Andrew Dasburg

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Andrew Dasburg is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his integration of Cubism into his landscape paintings.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles H. Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Charles H. Davis is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Laura Gilpin

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Laura Gilpin is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her landscape paintings.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: William Kienbusch

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, William Kienbusch is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape paintings, most of which displayed an abstract quality.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Homer Dodge Martin

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Homer Dodge Martin is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his "poetic, dreamy landscapes" painted from memory.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ogden Pleissner

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Ogden Pleissner is described here along with information on his contributions to art through award winning landscape painting.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edward W. Redfield

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Edward W. Redfield is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting.