Fundamental techniques for drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography alongside modern digital design principles. Analyzes historical artistic movements while building skills in printmaking and graphic media.
A 5-lesson unit for 2nd graders exploring influential Spanish and Latin American artists. Students learn about Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, and Alebrijes folk art through a workshop model, focusing on self-expression, community storytelling, and cultural identity.
This 5-lesson sequence explores how art preserves cultural heritage. Students analyze patterns from West African, Navajo, and Japanese traditions, identify personal cultural symbols, and create a collaborative class mosaic that celebrates their diverse backgrounds and shared community.
A 2nd-grade art sequence investigating how art serves as a vessel for cultural identity, heritage, and storytelling through everyday artifacts, symbolic patterns, and festive celebrations. Students move from analyzing global case studies to creating their own heritage-inspired artwork for a classroom museum.
A project-based unit where 2nd-grade students explore the impact of public art, analyze murals, and collaborate to design a piece of public art for their school or local community. Students learn how art can transform shared spaces and communicate messages of hope, history, and unity.
A workshop-style sequence for 2nd graders exploring Chinese calligraphy as an art form. Students learn about traditional tools, posture, basic strokes, and the pictorial origins of characters, culminating in the creation of their own calligraphy scroll.
A 4-session fall-themed sequence for K-3 students focusing on apple anatomy, safe carving techniques, creative decoration, and celebratory printmaking. Students develop fine motor skills and safety awareness while creating unique edible art.
A four-session art unit where K-3 students explore natural textures, colors, and patterns to create mosaic masterpieces using leaves, beans, rice, and other organic materials.
A fun two-day closing celebration for K–3 students where they collaborate to choose a class movie, design promotional posters, and enjoy a guided cinema experience with reflective activities.
A 3-session art series for K-5 students exploring garden-inspired art. Students develop observation, sketching, color mixing, and chalk pastel techniques to create vibrant mixed-media artworks.
A week-long series of simple, heartfelt art projects for K-3 students to create a personalized gift bag for Mother's Day, focusing on creativity and fine motor skills.
A three-session artistic journey for K-3 students exploring the creation of clay flowers, focusing on fine motor skills and seasonal themes.
A multi-session art unit where primary students blend human and animal features into unique linear character drawings and collaborative overlapping designs.
A week-long creative journey where students design, draw, and reflect on their own unique monsters while practicing artistic skills and collaboration.
An engaging holiday-themed art curriculum designed to foster creativity, fine motor skills, and self-expression through daily projects and reflection.
A week-long journey into the art of ceramics for young learners, focusing on fine motor skills, creative planning, and the emotional value of handmade gifts. Through structured sculpting and decorating sessions, students transform simple clay into meaningful keepsakes.
A week-long after-school program for K-3 students focusing on seasonal changes, hands-on crafts, and creative exploration of autumn through game-based and project-based learning.
Students explore relief printing using soft foam plates, focusing on positive and negative space, inking techniques, and pattern creation. The sequence culminates in a professional-style edition of prints and a gallery walk critique.
This sequence introduces 2nd-grade students to the world of printmaking through stenciling. Students explore positive and negative space, learn technical skills for stencil design and cutting, master the 'pouncing' ink application technique, and ultimately apply their designs to functional objects to understand graphic design in the real world.
This sequence introduces 2nd-grade students to graphic design through typography and layout. Students learn how font styles convey emotion and how the arrangement of visual elements creates hierarchy and meaning, culminating in a handmade poster project.
A 5-lesson sequence for 2nd graders exploring tactile textures through frottage, collagraphy, and monoprinting. Students investigate classroom textures, build printing plates from found materials, and experiment with ink transfer techniques.
A comprehensive introduction to relief printmaking for 2nd graders, moving from basic stamping to creating and signing a numbered edition of foam-plate prints.
Students develop advanced fine motor skills and bilateral coordination through 3D paper engineering. The sequence progresses from intricate scissor work and precise folding to tool-based measuring and complex adhesive control, culminating in the construction of functional pop-up mechanisms.
A foundational sequence for 2nd graders to learn typography and layout through the lens of 'text as art'. Students explore font personality, visual hierarchy, contrast, and layout balance to create effective digital communications.
This sequence introduces 2nd grade students to the fundamentals of digital illustration by focusing on geometric shapes, digital tool manipulation, and the concept of layering. Students move from identifying shapes in the world to creating complex digital characters and scenes.
This 2nd-grade sequence introduces students to the fundamentals of digital photography and user interface design. Students progress from capturing and editing clear images to understanding and designing the icons and layouts that make digital apps functional and visually appealing.
A 2nd-grade introduction to digital color theory, focusing on the emotional impact of warm and cool tones, brush textures, and abstract expression through digital media tools. Students learn to navigate digital interfaces while using color to communicate feelings without words.
An introductory sequence for second-grade students to explore digital graphic design. Students learn to use shapes, colors, typography, and layout to communicate messages effectively through project-based activities.
Students explore the world of assemblage art by repurposing found objects into unified relief sculptures. They learn about composition, texture, and unity through hands-on construction and monochromatic finishes.
A 5-lesson unit for 2nd graders exploring 3D art through paper manipulation and wire sculpting. Students learn techniques like folding, curling, and twisting to transform flat materials into voluminous forms and kinetic structures.
A 2nd-grade art unit where students transform everyday recyclables into complex 3D sculptures, focusing on shape recognition, engineering connections, and structural stability.
A comprehensive 2nd Grade unit introducing students to the tactile properties of clay and fundamental hand-building techniques including pinch pots, coil construction, and the slip-and-score method. Students explore additive sculpture and surface texture to create unique 3D works of art.
A 2nd-grade unit on subtractive sculpture, where students learn to reveal hidden forms by carving away material from soap or foam blocks. The sequence covers the difference between additive and subtractive art, 3D planning, tool safety, and refining techniques.
A 4-session series for K-3 students exploring creativity and fine motor skills through play dough. Students learn 3D shapes, color mixing theory, tactile textures, and narrative sculpting.
