A final unit integrating all skills to create large-scale works inspired by the natural world and global art traditions.
Students practice and perform five unique fractured fairy tale scripts, each featuring exactly five characters to support collaborative group work.
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 quick-hit replacement assignment for students who missed a documentary on high-stakes photojournalism. It explores the careers of photographers who work in extreme environments and danger zones.
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 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 foundational lesson on the precursors to opera, focusing on Renaissance vocal forms like the Chanson, Madrigal, and Lute Song that paved the way for the Baroque invention of opera.
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 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.