Subject(s): Art Grades(s): Junior High/High School

Art History & Artists:

• This is a lesson plan on impressionism and Claude Monet
• This lesson is on the Dada Art Movement
• Students make puppets of their favorite Artists and look at art’s importance in society in this lesson
• In this project, students present a historical artist to the class with a speech, poster/PowerPoint, and original art in the artist’s style
• In this lesson, students draw landscapes in the style of impressionist artists of the 1800s
• These art lessons have Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day, civil rights and other social studies lesson tie-ins.
• In this Modern American Abstract Art history lesson, students depict the inner character of pets
• This Non-Objective Art history lesson shows how current events influences art and how art depicts ideas

• Ceiling tile masterpieces are created in this lesson
• Grids are used in this lesson to create enlarged Mondrian styled paintings from photos
• Here students generate object art in the manner of Wayne Thiebaud and other 1960s pop artists

Collage:

• In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
• In this lesson, jazz inspires students to create a Romare Bearden style collage
• In this holiday idea, students present a family report and collage to their family
• Still life contour drawings are changed into an abstract collage here utilizing cubist techniques

Crafts, Sculpture, & 3-Dimensional Art:

• A Christmas lesson on the Advent Calendar (also a Religion lesson)
• Here’s a Craft idea to create neat Juggling Balls for use in PE!
• Here’s an idea for Quilting “Squares of Hope” to help Cope with Terrorism Acts
• In this idea for Coping with Terrorism, students make a Flag from Sept. 11th Newspaper Clippings
• This lesson is on Basket Making with Posterboard and involves Measuring
• This lesson on Violence involves creating Memorials for September 11th through Poems & Painting
• These lesson plans and craft projects were submitted by the Delphi Glass Company. They require a lot of material, but result in marketable glass, mosaic, and silver crafts and skills.
• “Beginning Stained Glass Instruction” is needed for many projects below
• This “Stained Glass Cutting” lesson should be practiced before beginning glass projects
• “Stained Glass Patriotic Heart Suncatcher Project” uses the preceding lessons
• This lesson teaches the direct glue & grout method of Mosaics
• Create “Mosaic Flower Pots” using the Mosaic Direct Method above
• “Fusing Glass Instructions” are needed for the next project
• Create a “Fused Art Glass Frame” with a kiln
• How to make your own glass beads
• Create a real silver charm bracelet with this silver jewelry clay lesson

• Tinker Toys structures and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
• This well-developed lesson teaches the basics of “Innovative Wire Sculpture”
• Here is an inexpensive way to make great Advent Wreaths
• This well-developed sculpture diorama lesson examines positive/negative space and the works of Dale Chihuly
• “Sharpie Tie Dye” is a cool and easy idea that really works
• Use this suncatcher idea to add sparkle to your classroom or as a crafty fundraising idea on Parent Teacher Night

Cultural / World Art:

• A unique lesson plan on African Jewelry Making

Drawing:

• This lesson on Calligraphy is called “Write Me A Picture!”
• Here’s a lesson on Creating Value in Art by using Grids
• With this idea, students Explore Creativity by Drawing from Rubbings
• This lesson uses Impressionist Van Gogh’s Starry Night to teach the hatching technique (cross-curricular ideas included)

Elements Of Art:

• A good Art-focused lesson on Painting, the Elements of Light, and Studying Countries
• A brief lesson on Tessellations
• This clever idea uses carbon paper shapes and an iron to create resist silhouettes

Emotion / Expression:

• Here’s an idea on Expression Through Art
• This lesson is on Music, Lines, Color, and Related Emotions

Painting:

• Photography is the subject of this lesson involving Dorthea Lange’s Migrant Mother
• Here’s a brief idea for creating parodies of the American Gothic painting
• Here is a great painting with sand art lesson for all ages
• This is a fun beginning of school lesson involving painting portraits with chalk
• This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan

Prints:

• In this two-part lesson, students learn about still life drawings and a Styrofoam plate method of printmaking
• Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this multi-disciplinary lesson

Other / Multiple Topics:

• An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
• Here’s an idea for Exploring Creativity by using various uncommon Art Mediums
• “Quilt 4 America” is the title of this idea for Coping with Terrorism
• This is an idea for a lesson on the Art of Bookmaking
• This lesson is on Creating Illustrated Mythology Book Covers
• Here’s a lesson on Mythology Dioramas and Set Design as a career
• A great interior-design project for high-school classes
• This outstanding 3-week multi-discipline fresco art unit features lessons on painters, symmetry, pigment, color wheel, primary colors, Italian Renaissance, solutions, chromatography, molecules, and atoms; plus a good museum education bibliography.
• In this one-point perspective lesson, the student will design an interior based on a particular artist’s style
• Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
• In this lesson, students create a 9/11 Remembrance Tapestry
• If your school hasn’t made a flag on the fence with paper cups yet, you really should try this idea!
• This is a simple introductory art portrait idea
• Student art illustrates a patriotic song in this holiday slide show idea
• Art Term Bingo is a great after-lesson activity
• This is a 15-day School Violence Art Curricula Unit from Do Something, Inc.
• Here students explore the use of abstract shapes and the feelings they evoke
• Students learn about the emotional and physiological affects of color in this lesson
• Jackson Pollack Lesson – Students explore the use of line to convey emotion
• Goya and Picasso Lesson – Students explore two paintings and their use of shapes
• Students explore the power of words in art here
• Tree of Decisions Lesson – Students explore different choices and outcomes and use the branching pattern
• Students learn to use visual language to have a conversation in this lesson
• Keith Haring Figures Lesson Part I – students work together to create a mural modeling cooperation and conflict resolution
• Keith Haring Figures Part II
• Keith Haring Figures Part III
• Keith Haring Figures Part IV
• Safe Carriers Lesson Part I – Students use modern packaging materials to create a safe place
• Safe Carriers Part II
• Safe Carriers Part III
• Here students create artwork based on their knowledge of line, shape, color, words and emotion

• This is a great no nonsense presentation of “Art Classroom Rules”
• Hre is an idea for a first day of middle school art questionnaire
• Students create appreciation cards for their past and present teachers here and learn the importance of being thankful

Computers & Internet Connections:

• This lesson in computer animation enables students to obtain a deeper understanding of chemical elements or other subjects
• In this space WebQuest, Earth “investigators” access several types of software and on-line media to create an Interplanetary Movement Passport PowerPoint
• Here students study multimedia persuasion techniques and use them to create Photo Story 3 advertisements
• This digital storytelling lesson encourages students to use electronic media and photographs to tell a creative personal story

Language Arts Connections:

• This lesson plans focuses on Integrating the studying of Shakespeare and the Internet
• This Foreign Language lesson plan involves students looking forward to the future and writing about their past in an “Internet Encyclopedia” entry
• This lesson on the Colonial Period involves Creative Writing and Creating Cameo Portraits
• The Gentlehands novel is the topic of this lesson involving making an Accordion Book
• This lesson idea focuses on what it means to be an American (or Canadian, etc.)
• A good lesson that involves making a Poetry Notebook
• Here’s a good idea for making “Movie Posters” for Novels students have read
• Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
• Here’s a “super” idea – have students create and write about their own “super-hero”
• Students create a travel brochure to an imaginary place in this lesson
• This diorama project combines reading, writing, speech, and art
• This diorama project combines reading, writing, speech, and art
• In this multidisciplinary idea, students recreate Romeo and Juliet in a different time and place
• This “Preposition Man” idea won’t go “IN one ear and OUT the other”
• These are two story element lessons utilizing Homer’s “Odyssey”:
• Here students compose and illustrate their own Homeric simile
• “The Odyssey” is translated into a children’s book in this lesson

• In this “Write Like An Egyptian” idea, students draw a short story using their own hieroglyphics
• Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of “voice” in books, music and art
• Here students make a report cover for an American Poetry Project
• This is a Great Gatsby book cover symbolism project
• Students create a propaganda poster here and write about an American Revolutionary War colonist who is influenced by it
• Students create a newspaper about their most admired person in these Writing Workshop activities
• Students interactively explore word play devices, draw vultures, design tattoos, and much more in this multidisciplinary unit
• There are art and art history components in this well-developed contemporary authors literatue portfolio project

Math Connections:

• Here slope is calculated through picture design
• After discussing infinity and Fabergé, students decorate paper Easter eggs in this idea demonstrating the “infinite” possibilities of human imagination

Music Connections:

• In this outstanding choral music lesson plan, students compose, perform, and teach a “round”, then produce its CD and video
• Students invent and use a new notation system in this lesson

Science Connections:

• This is a multidisciplinary lesson on creating a rain stick
• This lesson looks at the structure of atoms
• This psychology / art lesson is on Rorschach Spots (Inkblots)
• This simple idea transforms plants (collected leaves) into animals (art project)
• After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
• Students must defend their organelle with research and pictures to the Cell Body Corporation as it considers layoffs
• In this hydraulic water cycle lesson, students prepare posters, test water samples, compile results, and create a display board as a class
• Groups present a multimedia digital story about a biome here including non-copyrighted art and music
• Here students decorate plastic cup flowers with different materials that they then test for opacity, aesthetic value and durability

Social Studies Connections:

• Here’s an idea for creating a Bill of Rights Mural
• Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
• Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
• This is an outstanding multidiscipline differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
• In this lesson, students will experience Tiananmen Square
• Here students create a PowerPoint on the history, art, literature, and culture of a Spanish-speaking country
• In this lesson, students create a political cartoon illustrating imperialism prior to WWI
• Here students design a stamp to commemorate the life of Thomas Jefferson
• Here students read about the rights of pre-1760 colonists and design “Go Britain” bumper stickers
• Students communicate electronically here while photographing local geography for a PowerPoint presentation
• Students learn the concept of community in this well-developed photography “about me” project
• This World War I lesson includes an art project

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