Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students apply knowledge of the elements of design and hand building techniques in clay to illustrate the concept of negative space by cutting shapes out of the form to create an intricate pattern.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5) Description: Students will explore architecture of the world, uses of buildings and discuss architecture as a career. Students will work in cooperative groups and present their findings to the class.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students apply their understanding of the elements of plot structure and conflict to cooperatively create storyboards and speak effectively as they present their products.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students draw an object relying only on their sense of touch and imagination and then draw it again using their powers of observation to create a detailed study of the object. Comparisons are then made of the two drawings.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Ride the virtual highway on a field trip to museums, cultural centers, and exhibition spaces to discover exciting roles of public and private facilities. Follow various links on a cultural cruise of new knowledge and make local connections.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2) Description: This activity will promote acceptance of diversity within the classroom through the creation of a class quilt. Students will evaluate the final product to find commonalities with other students.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students will be introduced to Contour Drawing. They will view examples and non-examples of student contour drawings. After a demonstration of correct technique, the students will produce contour drawings of the top side of their hand.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Explore the history of tessellations; then use art and geometry to create an original tessellation.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2) Description: Snip colorful pieces of paper into a cut-work creation that expresses something you love or makes your heart happy. Use the style of drawing with scissors like Matisse to design a colorful cut-work masterpiece that reflects your personality.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This activity provides a unique way of brainstorming to get an idea. A group of artists known as the Surrealists used this game to give them ideas for their artworks.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: The student draws the five basic three-dimensional forms using tools (pencil, ruler, compass, protractor, etc.) and techniques (value application) proficiently and in a safe, responsible manner.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: In this activity, students collect and create bumper stickers and examine how they influence people.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5) Description: Bristly and rough or soft and smooth, most anything we can feel can be portrayed in a work of art as a texture. Imaginary or real, texture can add excitement and interest to your creation.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5) Description: A 4th grade art lesson using health education ideas is modified to include a language arts activity and computer work.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: The student will create a sculpture or relief by assembling found objects using the appropriate media, techniques, and tools that express a definite theme or idea, utilizing the elements and principles of design specified in the Art Production Criteria.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create a large-scale installation on the lawn or grounds of the school environment. Excitement is heightened by making humorous creations that use highly recognizable, appropriated images of art.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This activity is designed to introduce art students to a lesser-known contemporary artist. Students view the artist’s work in order to form opinions and share in class discussions. They also critique some of the artists work using the Linderman method and recreate the artist’s style of work with their own paintings.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This activity exhibits the art room's version of “Pop-Up” video. The students create two products that are done automatically. In each activity, the students draw or write whatever “pops up” in their minds in a timed session.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create artwork using the pure elements of line, shape, and color as the subject matter. The artwork is then cut or torn into organic shapes which are then glued onto a background paper, leaving areas of paper showing in the composition.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5) Description: Students write and construct their own autobiographies, based on [The Hundred Penny Box] by Sharon Bell Mathis. Sunshine State Standards used are narrative writing, peer editing, and writing process steps. This is the second part of a two-part project lesson.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: A visual presentation with teacher commentary introduces the students to the art of maskmaking and develops the students’ understanding of the world cultures that have produced the masks.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create round pinch pots with lids that have uniform shape and overall surface designs that emphasize line.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2) Description: An intro to shapes, architecture, and depth in art. Students distinguish cityscapes from seascapes & landscapes and explore the features of a community. Then, they create a pop-up paper city showing foreground, middleground, and background
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students pose questions about the subject of a short story based on the title and cover illustration; then read the story and determine if their questions actually pertained to the story line, and, if so, how the story answered the questions.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create a persuasive flyer to sway the opinion of the class on a controversial issue.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students bring an object made of leather and recreate it in clay, relying on observation skills and problem-solving skills to make it as realistic as possible.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students are introduced to the art of Louis Comfort Tiffany and produce a work of art inspired by Tiffany using tempera and ink, recognizing the characteristics of each medium and contrasting examples of paintings with Tiffany’s artworks.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students use clay to create a slab vase with a surface design that emphasizes the elements shape and texture.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5) Description: Swirly, curly, or straight as an arrow, lines can be whatever you want them to be. Students discover the excitement of working with one of design's most flexible elements, the line.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students design shields for personal coats of arms which depict themselves and then explain their shields to the class in an informal presentation.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students examine and understand who they are and communicate that person to the viewer through the use of the visual arts.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students examine family photos to find hidden clues, answering questions about the photos and writing essays on how photos can be a powerful tool in helping them learn about the past and unearth critical truths.
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5) Description: Did you know that the human mind is more creative than a television, movie or computer screen? Using the elements of art, students communicate ideas by creating unique pictures with sufficient manipulative skills after listening to or reading a poem.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5) Description: Whirling in wheels or soaring in rainbows, colors used in art are highly organized! Learn how to use the color wheel system to bring excitement and meaning to your very own artwork!
Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Does art have a purpose, or is it just a leisure time activity? After understanding the multiple purposes for creating works of art by fine artists, designers and craftspeople, students distinguish examples of each occupation.
Subject(s): Social Studies, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students read a selection concerning Santa Claus and the orgin of the Jolly Old Elf in the United States.They will also create their own version of a new and modern Santa Claus that will remain in the American culture.
