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The Amazing and Beautiful Aurora
Learners create an oil pastel painting. In this pastel painting lesson, students examine images of the aurora borealis. Learners produce an original pastel painting of the aurora.
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Building a Web
In this craft worksheet, students learn to make a spider web with white string and artist's matte finish to stiffen it. Students follow detailed directions to make the web and a black paper spider to go with it.
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Sandpaper Drawings
In this artistic worksheet, students gather together black sand paper with crayons/chalk and then draw a picture on the sandpaper to create a winter scene or a nativity scene.
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Lots of Lines
Students see that artists make many different kinds of lines. They discuss how artists use line to show ideas such as motion, mood, or emphasis and identify different kinds of lines in a variety of artworks and their environment.
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How Could You Visualize the Importance of Education
Students view different pieces of art from artist Candida Alvarez. They discuss what the art means to them. They create their own mobiles showing what they would like out of their education.
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Sixth Graders Express Themselves
Sixth graders create examples of expressionistic paintings using pastels, black paper, and chalk in this 6th grade Art lesson. Emphasis is on creating an emotion for the painting using simple lines and large shapes and cooperative...
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Lesson on Wayne Thiebaud
Fourth graders view Theibaud's work in order to form opinions and share in class discussions. They also critique some of the artists work using the Linderman method and recreate the artist's style of work with their own paintings.
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A World without Color and a World with Color
Visual arts instructional activity involving the creation of a black and white picture followed by a re-creation of the same picture using color with an emphasis on contrast, depth, and mood.
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Drawing from Life: Tissue Paper Collage
Students watch a video about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and discuss her work. They draw flowers plants and fish and use collage techniques imitating O'Keeffe's style.
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Impact on Your Essence
Students are introduced to the use of symbolism and how it can change one's view of a piece of art. Using a piece of art, they view it as if they were the artist and create a symbol that accompanies it. They discuss the impact of two-...
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Inquiry Lesson About Color
Students investigate the color choices artists make in their work, and to practice the scientific process of predicting, observing, inferring, and interpreting. This lesson's purpose is to prepare students for a museum visit.
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Romare Bearden
Learners examine and discuss a collage by the artist Romare Bearden. They analyze the impact of jazz on art, listen to jazz, and create an original collage.
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Raven Mask
Students explore the artistic expressions of the Northwest Native American Indians and using traditional palette of colors, create a personal interpretation of the traditional raven mask.
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Diversiones Culturales - Artistas
High schoolers use resources provided in the library to research an artist who has impacted their area of art. They then take their information and create a PowerPoint presentation and translate the Spanish for the class so they are all...
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Shadow Theater of the Mahabharata
Students explore the Hindu epic, Mahabharata, by creating Javanese shadow puppets and performing significant scenes from the story. They combine their artistic ability with their desire to learn an important aspect of the Southeast Asian...
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Tessellations and T-Shirts
Pupils 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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What We Read About
Students examine current events and create an artistic image that portrays the feelings brought forth by these readings.
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Modern Dance and the Harlem Renaissance
Students create an artistic rendering based on what they have learned from the film and the lesson plan.
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Light in Art
Third graders investigate the effect of light and dark on the art viewer's perceptions and emotions. They consider black and white illustrations along with paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer. They conduct experiments with light and write...
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Border Icons
Students examine the artistic definition of "icon" and articulate its importance in the popular art of the border. They paint, draw, their favorite icon or design a new icon that represents an important aspect of border life.
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Drawing Into the Imagination
Sixth graders examine the work of artist Saul Steinberg by visiting online galleries of his work and looking at photo reproductions. After viewing and interpreting Steinberg's work, they write and illustrate fantasy stories which are...
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Ancestor Project"
Students research their family heritage and bring in photocopies of items representing their families. They create an attractive, artistic collage using these images.
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Time For A Change: Illustrated Plates
Pupils create illustrated plastic plate designs depicting a physical, chemical, or biological change of some kind after investigating the artwork of porcelain artist Kataro Shirayamadani.
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Snowman Glyph
For this artistic worksheet, students follow the directions to the coloring of a snowman glyph and then show their pictures to their classmates.