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Curated OER

Cells=Life!

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders share what they know about cells. In this biology lesson, 9th graders study different microscopic images of the cell. They draw one and explain to their partner why they chose that image.
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Lesson Plan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Shape and Line Remix

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Sol LeWitt used ideas as his artwork, a method of artmaking that has become known as Conceptual art. From each idea, many drawings, prints, or sculptures could be created. Students will use simple geometric shapes as creative starting...
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Handout
Palomar Community College District

Study Guide: Movements in Twentieth Century Art After World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers a study guide on the movements in twentieth-century art after World War II, including abstract expressionism, op art, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art, performance art, photorealism, earth art, neo-expressionism,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art History: Global Contemporary Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to contemporary art around the world, themes, types of modern art, conceptual art, performance art, famous modern artists. We should at least pull out the artists we have in our famous persons bank. Should be cross-checked...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Sol Le Witt's Concepts and Structures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will consider the term "conceptual art" and the role of math in producing this art. They will first create a conceptual art piece by following a set of Sol LeWitt's instructions. Then, they will design two conceptual art plans...
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Cool Fire Technology

Brain Bank: Art Movements and Periods

For Students 9th - 10th
This website alphabetizes and briefly describes all the major movements in the history of visual arts. Good for use as a general reference for Art History studies and the study of historically based painting and art.
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Other

Arts Net Minnesota: Introduction to Inner Worlds

For Students 9th - 10th
A comparison of eight artists: Arthur Dove, Anthony, Green, Richard Hunt, Judy Onofrio, Betye Saar, Kay Sage, Yves Tanguy, Jane Tuckerman. Click on a specific artist to view one of their pieces, then read the information about its...
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Other

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art: Sol Le Witt: Wall Drawing Retrospective

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience over one hundred of Sol LeWitt's large-scale wall drawings at the MMOCA, spanning the artist's career from 1969 to 2007, installed over three stories of a historic mill building.
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Interactive
Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 Now

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition traces the creation of paper and mixed-media works by artists working in various European art centers along six different thematic pathways, such as popular culture, idea-driven conceptual art, protest, and...
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Interactive
Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibit "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years", a survey of tha last forty years of the American sculptors production including three new monumental pieces.
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Other

Curriki: "Beautiful Art" Cultural Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is designed to give young scholars a conceptual understanding of cultural diffusion and the notion that ideas change people and people change ideas. It involves a teacher demonstration, student role-play, and an activity...
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Handout
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Beyond Geometry: Conceptual Art, Defined

For Students 9th - 10th
Glossary entry defines what is meant by the term conceptual art.
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New York Times

New York Times: Beauty and Humor (An Exhibition of the Work of Rudolf Stingel)

For Students 9th - 10th
In a narrated slideshow, art critic Roberta Smith discusses the work of Rudolf Stingel, whose large-scale works in a variety of media, including Styrofoam, were showcased in a cleverly interactive exhibit at the Whitney Museum of...
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Other

University of the Arts, London: Leonardo's Inventions at Universal Leonardo

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit a gallery of ten different kinds of inventions, machines, and fortresses imagined by Leonardo, such as a giant crossbow, an armored car, and a self-propelled cart. Each rendering includes a description and contextual information...
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Other

Lisson Gallery London

For Students 9th - 10th
This gallery features work by contemporary conceptual artists. Click on "projects" to see some examples, or on the names of the artists for information on the individuals.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Idea Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, learners will create 10-20 mini works of art based on a given theme that are unique in concept and media. Students brainstorm ideas using an online tool, conceptualize their ideas, and create their pieces. The three best...
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Other

Marcel Duchamp World Community

For Students 9th - 10th
Marcel Duchamp was an artist in the early 1900s and worked in the style of the Dadaists (and Surrealists). He was very conceptual and used mathematical equations at times within his artwork.
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Website
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Collection Online: Lawrence Weiner

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of the career of the American Conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, including images of some of his works.
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Website
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Collection Online: Artist Bio: Richard Serra

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of American artist Richard Serra.
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Website
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Collection Online: Artist Bio: Gerhard Richter

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of German artist Gerhard Richter. Enter his name in the search box at left to locate examples of this work in the Guggenheim's collections.
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Website
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Collection Online: Artist Bio: James Casebere

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of the career of the American artist, James Casebere, that includes images of some of his works.

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