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Water Quality
Students investigate the properties of oil and water by making marbleized paper. They examine fish species by making Japanese fish prints and 3-D cardboard fish. They create posters that present messages about conserving our waterways.
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The Story that Tracks Tell
Eighth graders observe and investigate animal tracks. They draw prints for local animals and switch with another student to guess the animal, identify animal tracks in a nearby wood lot, create plaster casts of the tracks, and write a...
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The Civil War
Eleventh graders study selected prints and/or photos and consider how Americans of the 19th century chose to present themselves to other Americans and the world by means of visual images. They share their observations and opinions.
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Voyages of Discovery
Students create individual "travel logs" for a world explorer whom they studied in history class. This lesson is an interdisciplinary activity for the Language Arts and History classroom.
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Exhibition: Nathan Oliveira
Students examine the life and works of Nathan Oliveira. In groups, they discuss his influences on the type of art he made and how his emotions are reflected in his artwork. They also note the characteristics of each section of the...
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Marbling Madness
Students create marbled prints by dipping paper through starch and acrylic paint.
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Fingerprint Spring Flowers
Students create spring flowers. In this art lesson, students paint stems with brushes and then use their fingers to create flowers.
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Vinegar Hearts
Students create paper hearts. In this art lesson, students brush vinegar on white paper and cover the paper with red heart tissue paper. When the vinegar dries red heart prints are left because the tissue paper falls off.
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Drawing On Gray Toned Paper
Learners create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. The piece creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks recede.
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A Cultural Palette
Students examine pieces of music and art that represent who they are. They study Haitian culture and traditions by performing the musical production "Once on the Island." They watch and discuss the film "The Nature of Music."
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Beeswax Flower Candle
Students create "Beeswax flower candles" in this early-elementary classroom Art lesson. Materials needed include foam pieces, straw, a glue gun, clay pots, beeswax, and popsicle sticks. This activity is ideal for the students to create...
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Card Boxes
Students build gift boxes using recycled christmas cards, ribbon, glue, and hole punchers in this Holiday Art lesson for the middle level classroom. Six christmas cards are needed for every box and the lesson can be modified for younger...
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Marshmallow Bunny
Learners create "marshmallow bunnies" using marshmallows, toothpicks, pink construction paper, and cloves in this quick and easy early-elementary level Art lesson. The 30-minute lesson is ideal for holiday ideas around Easter time.
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Sticky Hearts
Learners create "sticky hearts" in this early elementary instructional activity that explores the use of different media in works of art. The instructional activity suggests using white posterboard, constructions paper, corn syrup, food...
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Toilet Paper Tube Turkey
Students create "toilet paper tube" turkeys in this Thanksgiving Day art lesson for the early elementary classroom. The lesson suggests using toilet paper tubes, construction paper, googly eyes, scissors, and glue to create each turkey.
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Tessellations and T-Shirts
Students combine the visual arts and technology with mathematics in the creation of these beautiful t-shirts. They view examples of the work of artist M.C. Escher.
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Murals That Fit
Students examine different pieces of art that are considered murals. They discuss the differences between paintings and murals. They design and paint their own murals for different sites in their school.
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The Cinquain
Students explore writing a cinquain. Students engage in a pantomime experience. They observe and describe bubbles. Students compose a cinquain and illustrate their work with bubble art.
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Mother's Day Butterfly and Poem
Students make butterflies out of paint and an open hand. In this art lesson, students press an open hand with paint on paper spreading the fingers to represent wings.
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AT THE CORRAL
Students study dotted eighth/sixteenth note rhythm pattern using percussion instruments and alternating from "corral to corral" in groups of 4-6. They play the pattern while listening to selected American western theme songs.
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Ojibwa Sewn Bead Designs
Students recognize and describe the sewn beading style of the Ojibwa tribe that was influenced by seventeenth-century French floral embroidery and fabric prints imported by the French traders. They adapt and recreate an Ojibwa bead motif.
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Tessellations
Learners learn and review basic geometric terms, definitions, and theory, including regular polygons, lines, angles, points, etc. They make a tessellating stamp and create a repeating work of art.
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Pop Into My Community
First graders distinguish cityscapes from seascapes and landscapes and explore the features of a community. Then, they create a pop-up paper city showing foreground, middle ground, and background.
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