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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 3: Technical Aspects of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
In this third unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn how to describe the technical aspects of an artist's work by discussing elements of art and principles of design. They also look at the stylistic qualities of an artist's...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Linear Perspective

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on linear perspective and it explores this a work by Camille Pissarro. The animation shows vanishing point, linear...
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Article
Other

Wet Canvas: Aerial Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
A demonstration of how aerial perspective is achieved.
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Lesson Plan
California State University

A Bird's Eye View

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
With this lesson plan young scholars will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Aerial Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
A definition of aerial perspective with examples and links to paintings that use the technique.
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Website
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Traveling Above, Looking Below

For Students 3rd - 5th
Try drawing something from a bird's-eye view and change your usual perspective of that object. Relates this drawing-from-above concept to artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Graphic
Other

Art Graphica: Three Point Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
A one-page captioned diagram that illustrates and explains the fundamentals of three-point perspective.