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.

A Gifted and Talented Kindergarten lesson exploring the life and geometric abstract art of Piet Mondrian, focusing on primary colors, grids, and artistic balance.

A guided exploration of the Harlem Renaissance exhibition at the Met Museum, designed for students with emerging reading skills to engage with art history through literal and inferential questions.

A creative exploration of colors through a word search activity, designed for young artists or those needing large print accessibility.

A fun, hands-on lesson for kindergarteners to learn how to dress basic shape-based figures using primary colors and simple patterns. Students will practice identifying shapes and making creative choices for their character's outfits.

A simple, step-by-step drawing lesson for kindergarteners to learn basic facial features. Students will follow along to draw eyes, a nose, and a mouth on a circle.