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Art Lesson Plans - Grades 4-5
- Natural Disasters - Assesssment
- Natural Disasters - Learning Activities
- Natural Disasters - Year 5 and 6 unit
- Word Lists - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Worksheets - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Invasion - Stage 3 Unit Early White Settlement
- Solar System Unit
- Pakistani Handicrafts Unit - Clay Seals
- Helping Others - Giving Tree
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- Cesar Chavez Quilt Stories
- A Thousand Paper Cranes
- Vasarely and Op Art
- Sowa's Ark
- Students make historical monument sunset silhouettes in this lesson on contrast
- Here students decorate plastic cup flowers with different materials that they then test for opacity, aesthetic value and durability
- Use this suncatcher idea to add sparkle to your classroom or as a crafty fundraising idea on Parent Teacher Night
- This Squeezy Ball Father's Day idea teaches gerunds and reduces stress
- While making African tribal masks, students learn here how scarcity of goods leads to conflict
- Here's a lesson on landscape collage and depth
- Here's an idea on Expression Through Art
- In this inexpensive lesson, students mix primary colors to paint a pumpkin scene on a rock
- Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this lesson
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This idea involves creating "Penguin light bulbs"
- Map Rubric
- Day 8: Route to Freedom:Mapping North Carolina's UGR routes
- A Christmas lesson on the Advent Calendar (also a Religion lesson)
- In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
- This art idea involves overlapping shapes
- This well-developed lesson plan is on Geometric Architecture and involves students creating their own "Architecture"
- Here students write Irish blessings on green hearts that are combined to form shamrocks
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- Crayola software is used in making pattern value portraits in this art lesson
- An idea for making decorative Christmas ornaments out of Light Bulbs
- Metal Craft - engraving a foil-covered dish
- UGR Unit Rubrics
- This poster idea teaches the differences between monocot and dicot plants
- African Ashanti dolls are created and discussed here
- Here students use the "Art of Geometry" to create actual 9-patch quilts
- In this clever Easter science experiment, students witness absorption, diffusion, and primary color combinations while creating coffee filter Easter egg
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- Another Navajo lesson plan, this one involving Weaving Rugs
- This is an excellent "draw what you hear" lesson
- This human face drawing lesson provides generic drawing skills useful for learning in a variety of subjects
- Here is a crafty Mother's Day necklace idea
- Patchwork Collage - arranging wrapping paper shapes
- A great, artistic idea for students to portray their feelings
- Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- Autumn Fun - Children write biographies for their Pumpkin Pal art projects
- Here is a simple and inexpensive Indian basket-weaving lesson
- Reading and Writing Workshop With Student Round-Robin Participation
- This is a procedure idea for creating construction paper silhouettes
- Here's a lesson on impressionism titled "What's Your Impression?"
- In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts for Christmas and other occasions
- Click here to celebrate Chinese New Year with oriental music and lanterns
- Favorite Parts in Charolotte's Web
- Using Karo Syrup to create Art (Can be used for Special Education)
- Puppets for parent night
- This outdoor idea combines sidewalk chalk with music symbols
- In this two-part lesson, students learn about still life drawings and a Styrofoam plate method of printmaking
- This well-developed sculpture diorama lesson examines positive/negative space and the works of Dale Chihuly
- This self-reflection art and writing project showcases students' strength and goals
- Here is an inexpensive way to make great advent wreaths
- This portion is on Native American Folk Tales
- Use this clever idea to color salt with sidewalk chalk to create colored sand Valentine's Cards
- This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
- This is an idea for crafting Christmas puzzle picture frames
- The secret ingredient in this painted stained glass window idea is cooking oil
- This is an edible physical and directional state geography lesson
- Day 3: Hear the Whistle Blow! -Musical Messages of Freedom
- Here are some great New Year's resolution lesson ideas
- Last is a lesson on Native American Superstitions
- Here students create a civil war leader index card by drawing a picture of the individual on one side and listing three facts on the other
- This Art and Social Studies lesson is on Navajo Sand Paintings
- In this lesson, students use their brain to make a brain out of Play-Doh
- "Stained Glass Patriotic Heart Suncatcher Project" uses the preceding lessons
- This Painting lesson is on Janet Fish's Still Lifes
- This "Stained Glass Cutting" lesson should be practiced before beginning projects
- This idea involves making Thanksgiving collages from magazines
- This lesson is on Multiplication Facts with the Numbers 3, 6, 7, and 9
- This is a solar system lesson with an art component
- In this lesson, students use yarn to illustrate the life cycle of a flowering plant
- Day 10: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom - Continued
- To complete this lesson, students create a diorama depicting a cause or effect of the American Revolution
- "Quilt 4 America" is the title of this idea for Coping with Terrorism
- An Art lesson plan on Impressionism and Claude Monet
- This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
- In this lesson, students make a map of the Great Wagon Road
- Here students create a mural depicting how their community lives and works together
- Word Play Fun... Not Your Ordinary Literary Masterpiece!
- In this Thanksgiving lesson, students write a list and visually present what they are thankful for by creating a placemat
- Students experience Monet's work by painting with watercolors and torn paper in this lesson
- In this reference lesson, students research and present state facts on a poster
- Predicting with Charlotte's Web
- In this lesson students create work similar to Andy Warhol's Images and use computers
- Students create paper quilting squares here to give a sick classmate well wishes and something to do
- This is an Easter lesson on patterns in art and math
- Here's an idea to reuse those Plastic Easter Eggs as decorations
- A lesson on Native American Pottery and Culture
- Students create their ownHarold and the Purple Crayonstyle drawing story here
- Children recognize the importance of line in artwork in this hatching and cross-hatching drawing lesson
- UGR Unit Bibliography And Webliography
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- Art Term Bingo is a great after-lesson activity
- This lesson is called "The Wonderful World of Matisse"
- Jewelry Making - decorating salt dough pieces
- Here is a very interesting creating art on computers lesson
- These center activities serve as a delightful introduction to the common garden snail
- Make a class puzzle
- This Easter lesson is called Egg Wrap and is on Circumference, Measurement, and Estimation
- Here is an idea to use songsheets to display student artwork as well as singing skills
- Here's a Craft idea to create neat Juggling Balls for use in PE!
- This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
- In this lesson, students paint in the abstract style of Joan Miro
- Here's a fun Easter egg project
- Memorial Day poppies are created here
- Students use free digital scrapbook technology in this project to create alliterative phrase wall hangings
- This great New Year's lesson is called "Reflections: 2001" but can be used for any New Year
- Here is an art history lesson on Byzantine art and architecture
- Unit introduction, timeline, essential questions, objectives, national standards, adaptations
- These three activities help students build a "feelings" vocabulary
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- Early American Tin Punch Ornaments are made here
- This helpful "Note to Art Teaching Assistants" contains a great clean-up song
- An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
- Here's an interesting idea for Creating Skits on Spelling or Vocabulary Words
- Here's a simple craft idea for making a pinecone Christmas ornament
- Diary Writing Rubric
- Here students describe one of America's European explorers in a poem and then decorate it
- Students learn a paint brush program to create their own caricatures here
- Students create Mother's Day Cards with Poems in this lesson idea
- Here is a Christmas paragraph storybook idea
- Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the paper mache maracas crafted in this art and music project
- Here's an idea for holding your own art exhibit
- In this lesson, students create a weaving using materials that describe them as a person
- Cooperative Group Work Rubric
- Here are instructions for creating the Hawaiian 'Uli 'Uli musical gourd rattle instrument used in hula dances
- Making 3-D snowflake magnets is a fun winter/holiday project
- A lesson involving Making Tessellations
- "Mosaic Flower Pots" are created using the Mosaic Direct Method above
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- This is a craft idea for creating dinosaur treasure eggs
- Introduction to Pakistan's Handicrafts
- This Science lesson teaches all about Crystals and can be used to make Christmas Ornaments
- "One Million Bones" is a collaborative art project to call attention to the atrocities of genocide and mass violence
- Here students demonstrate understanding of patterns and geometric shapes while creating Native American Wall Hangings
- This excellent color wheel lesson introduces students to the moods, vocabulary, and theory of color.
- Here's a fun idea for an autumn centerpiece
- This Multidisciplinary lesson deals with the Esimation of a Pumpkin's Weight as it is carved
- This lesson plan is on Picasso and involves creating Picasso-Style Art
- Here Halloween storyboards are assembled and acted out
- Here's an idea for Quilting "Squares of Hope" to help Cope with Terrorism Acts
- This lesson uses Impressionist Van Gogh's Starry Night to teach the hatching technique (cross-curricular ideas included)
- Here is an art lesson on aboriginal art in Australia
- This lesson involves creating art with Easter eggshells
- Students use their initials to tell their own biographies in this lesson
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- Students learn art history and paint a picture utilizing a color scheme in this color wheel lesson
- Ceiling tile masterpieces are created in this lesson
- Here's a lesson on the Navajo Indian Culture
- "Electronic Pizza" is a computer and art program that uses MS Paint
- This non-objective art lesson shows how history influences art and how art illustrates nouns
- Day 6: Underground Research
- Here is a great painting with sand art lesson for all ages
- This simple idea transforms plants (collected leaves) into animals (art project)
- Free form drawing makes this art idea take shape!
- Here is an idea for making colored sand and sand pictures
- Here's a idea that uses colored joint compound to mimic Van Gogh's heavy brushstrokes
- Here is a having fun with dance pictures art idea
- Michelangelo and his painting of the Sistine Chapel are the subject of this lesson
- This "Guess What I did on my Summer Vacation" drawing idea is a great first-day icebreaker
- "Beginning Stained Glass Instruction" is needed for the Delphi projects below
- You can recycle your Candy Canes on Valentine's Day with this idea
- Students write and deliver Valentine's Day craft demonstration speeches here
- Here students read about the rights of pre-1760 colonists and design "Go Britain" bumper stickers
- In this sequence comprehension lesson, students make a 6-square story quilt
- Children (Special Ed) learn rain concepts here by making a rain cloud out of construction paper and yarn
- These "Me" collages are great for getting to know classmates
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- Student art illustrates a patriotic song in this holiday slide show idea
- Day 5: Tracking the Quilting Codes - Continued
- This lesson teaches the direct glue & grout method of Mosaics
- A Spider's Life Cycle
- As you progress through this 2-week U.S. Constitution Unit, you build a tree with branches and leafy amendments
- Here's great Thanksgiving "Textured Turkeys" lesson
- Day 2: Conductors of Freedom:The Role of Abolitionists and Quakers in the UGR Movement
- In this project, students research, write, and use media to support a local environmental issue
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- An interesting sculpture lesson on silence - expressing without words
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- This diorama project combines reading, writing, speech, and art
- Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
- This lesson looks at the structure of atoms
- This lesson is on the Commutative Property of Mathematics
- This Indo-Islamic art unit introduces students to Mughal miniature painting
- Presentation Rubric
- Day 7: Underground Research - Continued
- Action painting art is created in this Jackson Pollock lesson
- Learners use self-describing words as a structure in this "Art about Me" drawing idea
- An Art or Social Studies lesson on Costa Rica
- This is an excellent multidisciplinary rock and mineral unit
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
- Here's an idea for a first day of school "Class Puzzle" that shows each student's importance
- This lesson called "Book Blurbs" helps students with Reading Comprehension and Identifying Climax
- A brief lesson idea on Art using pastels for Weather
- Here is a great lesson on the artist Marc Chagall
- Here students use sidewalk chalk to create, measure, and label the "Longest & Weirdest Candy Cane"
- A fun Thanksgiving idea for creating "Coffee Filter Turkeys"
- This is a great no-nonsense presentation of "Art Classroom Rules"
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students form a beautiful bulletin board using rhythm and math
- In this idea for Coping with Terrorism, students make a Flag from Sept. 11th Newspaper Clippings
- Spaghetti Webs
- In this creativity lesson, students express words, emotions, or actions in pastels
- "Sharpie Tie Dye" is a cool and easy idea that really works
- This well-developed lesson teaches the basics of "Innovative Wire Sculpture"
- This six pillars of character student publishing project yields a free full-color hardbound class book
- Students use Words and Pictures as Visual Images to tell Stories in this lesson
- Here's a "super" idea - have students create and write about their own "super-hero"
- A fun activity for creating Sentences out of Candy Hearts (Valentine's day)
- Parents will absolutely love this clever open house idea
- This lesson is on Ikebana - the Japanese Art of Flower Arranging
- This is a good art filler activity - Musical Chairs with Art at each chair
- This lesson plan involves emotions in music and srt
- "Scribble Music" is a great early year, break time or substitute plan
- Abstract art as a visual metaphor for modern music is the hypothesis explored here
- Project Rubric
- If your school hasn't made a flag on the fence with paper cups yet, you really should try this idea!
- This clever Easter idea transforms egg cartons into ready-to-decorate baskets
- This art idea is for making an Easter basket out of a bleach jug
- This lesson plan explores finger painting with sophistication and a video
- This is an art history idea on Early American Limner Portraits
- Need an art idea? How about drawing original advertisements?
- A Music lesson integrating Art and Language Arts involving Contrast
- This 6-foot Mayan pyramid is created out of recycled materials
- This similar "All About Me" scrapbook idea yields a bulletin board, a classroom book and a teacher's keepsake
- Students create a stained glass "Rousseau's Jungle" here with gel glue and oil pastels
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- This is a lesson on Ecuadorian Masapán bread dough sculpting
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
- Students will write Haiku Poetry and Create a Picture for their State in this lesson
- Here's an idea for teaching about theme and variation in music
- Here is a Rain Forest lesson involving painting animals
- Day 9: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom
- Coconut turkeys are the "centerpiece" of this Thanksgiving Idea
- Witching You a Happy Halloween
- Here students study multimedia persuasion techniques and use them to create Photo Story 3 advertisements
- This Native American lesson involves Painting an Event, Story, or Person from Native American History
- In this lesson, students create a 9/11 Remembrance Tapestry
- "Gumball Drawing" is a simple art lesson on using the circle tool in MS Paint
- This Art lesson involves Painting (or Drawing) Sunsets and Landscapes and some Geology study too
- Day 4: Tracking the Quilting Codes
- In this computer lab project, KidPix is used to create mouse pads for holiday gifts
- A Science and Art lesson on creating a Rain Stick (Music and Social Studies too)
- In this color wheel lesson, students learn about art history and color moods
- In this holiday idea, students draw an imaginary map of Santa's "North Pole" community
- Another Easter lesson idea, this one involves creating a "stuffed" picture
- This is a fun beginning of school lesson involving painting portraits with chalk
- This art lesson deals with Vincent van Gogh
- After discussing infinity and Fabergé, students decorate paper Easter eggs in this idea demonstrating the "infinite" possibilities of human imagination
- In this "Follow the Drinking Gourd" activity, students create a big dipper looking glass and write their personal meaning of freedom
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- Here students create their own version of Munch's paintingThe Scream
- Clay Seals - modeling designs in clay
- In this listening idea, students write an 8-page story booklet inspired by the mood of eight songs
- This one deals with the Lakota-Sioux Sun Dance
- Day 1: Derailment of Human Rights:A Life of Slavery
- This one is called Sketch To Stretch for Language Arts and Art
- Counting in Espanol
- Self-Report Affective Assessment Rubric
- VALUE with Gridding
