MESSAGES IN ART

This unit is designed to show students that People around the world and throughout time have found ways to communicate with one another through messages.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: nuria lee

The Memory Project

Art students create portraits for youth around the world who've been neglected, orphaned, or disadvantaged.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Lindsey Shepard

Why communities are important? Arts Integration unit for lower grades

First and second grade students will study diverse historic characters that have contributed to improve the community they lived in. Students will be guided to reflect on how these characters’ work has changed the world. Students will synthesize learning in writing and create a visual representation of their understanding of the topic. Consequently, they will present it to their classmates to receive and provide feedback to each other. The second part of the unit will incorporate students’ personal perspective about how to improve the community and what they would do to contribute to it. Students will follow same process as in the first part of the unit. They will complete the writing and visual piece to present to their classmates, explain their rationale and receive feedback from peers. During this unit, students will learn how to provide feedback and receive feedback in a respectful way that contributes to the learning environment.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Marisol Pastor-Cabrera

Adaptati

This is a template for lessons developed by the San Francisco Unified School District SLANT Cohort. (Replace this text with a short description of your SLANT-inspired lesson. Then add learning goals, keywords, standards alignments, subjects, and grades in their respective fields.) I have added an extension for students to explore Ekphrastic Poetry.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Lindsey Shepard

Counting on Art

In these lessons students will explore the paintings of Horace Pippin and Wayne Thiebaud and the mobiles of Alexander Calder to discover and practice math and visual art concepts. Background and biographical information about the work of art and artist, guided looking with class discussion, and activities with worksheets using mathematical formulas and studio art provide the framework for each lesson.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

New Angles on Art

Do art and math have anything in common? How do artists and architects use math to create their works? In these lessons, students will explore the intersection of math and art in the works of two artists and one architect for whom mathematical concepts (lines, angles, two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional polyhedra, fractions, ratios, and permutations) and geometric forms were fundamental.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan

Adaptation Poem and iMovie for Grade 6 (Work in Progress)

This is a template for lessons developed by the San Francisco Unified School District SLANT Cohort. (Replace this text with a short description of your SLANT-inspired lesson. Then add learning goals, keywords, standards alignments, subjects, and grades in their respective fields.)

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Karen de Sousa

Making Egg Tempera Paint

Students put their science and art skills to work learning how to make and experiment with egg tempera paint like artists in Medieval Europe did.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Kris Wetterlund

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Unit Plan

This is a unit plan frame for the text I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." It is designed to address the Common Core standards grade band 11-12 and inlcudes suggested activities, supplemental texts, and assessment ideas.

Material Type: Assessment, Syllabus, Unit of Study

Author: Kaycee Eckhardt

Finding the Animals: A Visual Exploration of Art

Students participate in a "thirty-second look," followed by a class discussion about Jan Brueghel's painting "The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark". Students then use description words and complete sentences to write about their favorite animal in the painting; draw the animal using line, color, and shape; and present their work to the class.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan

Art Forms of Nature: The Ernst Haeckel Collection

Ernst Haeckel is a medical doctor, artist, philosopher, and naturalist of the late 1800s/early 1900s who beautifully and accurately depicted sea animal and plant life using color illustrations; you can find many examples of his sketches online through websites such as this one (Kuriositas, January 2012)and in his published works like Art Forms of Nature (1899). He promoted Darwin's theory of natural selection and created many words in the study of biology such as phylogeny and protist. I can see his work being used to inspire student observations, which are the basis of scientific discovery and study and as a supplement within specific units of biology including classification and evolution studies. I can also envision them being used during curriculum development within a professional development setting for teachers or a collaborative project integrating art and science instruction.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

Author: Kuriositas

The Storyboard Artwork Project

In this project, you create educational materials for schools. If you like to draw human figures or if you have Poser or DAZ Studio, you can join. The artwork that you will create in this project turns Tux Paint into a storyboarding program. The artwork is a human figure viewed from many angles. Once you have drawn the artwork, you mask the figures so they can be used as "stamps" in Tux Paint for kids to create storyboards for motion pictures. These special stamps allow Tux Paint to work like a simple version of Storyboard Quick and Storyboard Artist. Hopefully, this project teaches you everything you need to know to create storyboarding stamps for Tux Paint.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Reading