Curated OER
Birmingham Museum And Art Gallery
In this teacher website, teachers have access to various worksheets and lesson plans at no cost. Teachers can search for art lesson plans, activities, and available resources.
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department (Iad)
The Incredible Art Department website started in 1994 and has grown into a huge site with a wealth of resources on teaching art, student research, careers in art, art history, games, links to art galleries and museums around the world,...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Files for Art Teachers
A large collection of files that have been contributed by art teachers. Examples of topics include rubrics, lessons, ideas for critiquing art, assessments, icebreakers, classroom management, games, parent communication, and lots more.
Other
Cool Curriculum: Great Ideas for the K College Classroom
An expansive collection of in-depth art curriculum materials for class levels from kindergarten through college.
Other
Art Window
Teacher shares lessons, secrets, examples curriculum, and experiences as an art educator.
PBS
Art:21: Art in the Twenty First Century
The online home of award-winning PBS television series "Art:21" opens a window into the world of contemporary art and artists. Includes a lessons library, downloadable educator guides, examples of student-created projects inspired by the...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Create a Butterfly Mobile
This site provides information on Alexander Calder, the inventor of the kinetic sculpture known as the mobile, as well as detailed instructions on how to create your own butterfly mobile. Included are "Tips and Tricks" to making "a more...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Carve a Free Form Sculpture
Instructions on how to carve a small sculpture using plaster of Paris, a table knife and spoon. Also included is background information on the emergence of modern sculpture.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Sculpture Activities
This site provides eight art activities which teach students of all age to make a variety of sculptures. Activities provided include: "Mat Board Sculpture," "Create a Butterfly Mobile," and "Carve a Free-Form Sculpture."
Goshen College
Bird Ritual
This opening art exercise, although intended to increase art fluency, would be a great motivation for a lesson on Brancusi's "Bird in Space."
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Art Activities and Learning Centers
This page has suggestions for activities requiring minimal preparation that students can do after completing regular assignments, as well as some links to more challenging activities, e.g., reviewing paintings of Saint Nicholas, Saint...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Elementary Art Sub Plans
Lesson ideas for the substitute teacher for elementary art instruction.
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Calimero
A great site that allows young students to play with the computer and create postcards, read jokes and other stories and print out the alphabet or table decorations to color manually or import into a paint program to color with the...