Students explore the alphabet by creating art for each letter, connecting literacy with creativity to reinforce letter recognition and vocabulary.
Students work in small groups to rehearse and perform mystery plays, analyzing their specific plot structures and reflecting on social-emotional themes.
Students learn the fundamental components of a play script and use a model play to identify setting, characters, and plot structure.
Students practice and perform five unique fractured fairy tale scripts, each featuring exactly five characters to support collaborative group work.
A final unit integrating all skills to create large-scale works inspired by the natural world and global art traditions.
A deep dive into the lives and styles of iconic painters, focusing on impressionism, surrealism, and pop art.
Explores tactile art-making through paper tearing, layering, and found-object assembly.
Focuses on the fundamentals of line, shape, and color through wet and dry media, inspired by landscape and portraiture.
A 40-minute guided art lesson for grades K-3 that introduces the 7 elements of art through a single integrated drawing activity and supporting mini-tasks. Ideal for substitutes, this lesson builds a 'Creative Creature' step-by-step.
A musical exploration where students use the growth of a plant to understand crescendo and decrescendo through movement and voice.
A comprehensive substitute-friendly lesson introducing the 7 Elements of Art to students in grades K-3 through visual exploration and hands-on practice.
A beginner's guide to drawing classroom objects using basic geometric shapes. Students learn to identify and use circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, and ovals through simple step-by-step visual instructions.
In this lesson, students will identify circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and ovals in common classroom objects. They will then follow visual, step-by-step directions to draw these objects themselves using primary colors.
A kindergarten lesson focused on identifying and using basic geometric shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval) to draw familiar outdoor objects. Students follow three-step visual guides to build their artistic confidence through shape recognition.
A lesson for kindergarteners on how to use basic shapes to draw common outdoor settings and objects, following a step-by-step approach to build artistic confidence.
A hands-on file folder game and introductory lesson focusing on four core elements of art: line, shape, color, and texture. Students learn to identify these elements through visual examples and interactive matching.