African Masks

• Mask-making guide by artist and teacher Maude Alexander (“Celebrating Ancestors”)



• The Museum Project includes a 10th Grade World History African Unit

Assemblage

• Portrait boxes by artist Alice Noel (“Turning Everyday Objects Into Art”)

Bookmaking

• Accordion-fold book by artist/instructor Thomas Freese (“Combining Words with Art”)

Color

• Cut-paper collages by artist Catherine Rubin (“Color”)

Gestural Line Drawing

• Gestural line drawing by artist/instructor Alice Noel (“Moving Lines”)



• KinderArt features free online art lessons for kids ages 4-12, to be used by teachers, parents, home schoolers, and kids. The site includes a kids’ gallery, art trivia, a teacher exchange, and art supply recipes.

Contour Line Drawing

• Contour line drawing by artist/instructor Rebecca Gallion (“Walking the Line”)

Realistic Drawing

• Drawing animals by artist/instructor Rex Robinson (“Drawing Animals”)

Mapmaking

• Create a map of an imaginary island by artist/instructor Cynthia Cooke (“cARTography”)



• Create a three-dimensional map of an island by artist/instructor Cynthia Cooke (“Exploring the Third Dimension with Captain Cooke”)



• Science Resources for Primary Grades and Science Resources for Secondary Grades from the U.S. Geological Survey includes lesson plans and teacher’s guides on mapmaking for primary and secondary grades.



• CEC Lesson Plans is an archive for teacher-developed lesson plans. It includes the following mapmaking activities:

  Map Skills for grades K-4

  Making Personal Maps for 5th and 6th graders

  Mapmaking for grades 4-6

  Whole Language Approach to Mapmaking for 5th graders

  Play Doh Map of Your State for grades 4-8

Shapes

• Geometric cardboard sculpture by artist/instructor Ruben Moreno (“Geo-Vistas”)

Tessellations

• Tessellating stamp by artist/instructor Thomas Freese (“Tessellations”)



• The Tessellation Tutorial has tutorials and templates for making your own tessellations, plus a math lesson plan.

Zoetropes

• Build a zoetrope by artist/instructor Ruben Moreno (“Animating Art”)



• Zoetropes and thaumatropes

Other Art Lesson Plans

• Links to art museums and other arts sites



• KET’s Looking at Painting and Ellis Wilson—So Much To Paint each offer visual art lesson plans for middle and high school.



• A Guide to Building Visual Arts Lessons, developed by the J. Paul Getty Museum Education Department, is designed to help teachers and curriculum developers create successful arts-focused lessons. Included are ideas for preparing lessons, a step-by-step guide for teaching visual arts for each grade level, and ideas for evaluation and assessment approaches.



• Connections+ has links to art lesson plans on the Internet.



• Refrigerator to Renoir: Ten Great Art Lessons on the Net from Education World



• Yahoo list of art lesson plan sites