African Masks | Assemblage | Bookmaking | Color | Drawing
Mapmaking | Shapes | Tessellations | Zoetropes
Other art lesson plans

African Masks

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

• Masks: The Face Tells the Story for grades 9-12

• Nigeria for grades K-1 is a lesson plan compiled by the Geographic Education and Technology Program. Activity 20 tells how to make an African mask.

• 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”)

• Educational Resources for Cartography, Geography, and Related Disciplines from the U.S. Geological Survey includes lesson plans and teacher’s guides for grades K-3, 4-8, and 7-12.

• 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”)

• DoodleOpolis: Adventures in Urban Architecture In this global classroom, students explore how we use space to create our physical world. They learn visual and drawing techniques to note and record built environments—our homes, schools, streets, neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Sessions begin regularly.

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

• A What-A-Trope?

• Make Your Own Disney Zoetrope!