Art
ArtsEdNet--Lesson Plans and Curricular Ideas are included. Also many interactive "devices of wonder" - great teaching tools and fun for your students.
KinderArt--Series of lessons for young children on the basics of art including alternative assessments.
ArtsEdge--Teaching Materials focused on the national art education standards and provides K-12 teachers with curriculum units, lesson plans, activities and other ideas for integrating the arts into classroom teaching.
A. Pintura: Art Detective--An online game about art history and art composition. In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history. A distraught woman asks you to identify the artist who made a painting she found in her grandfather's attic. To do so, you must examine paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh. Each example highlights an art concept such as composition, style or subject. The story concludes with an appropriate noirish twist, as the woman's true identity and motives become apparent.
3-D Construction Projects--using pieces of foam board, along with toothpicks, to create your own geometric construction pieces. Find further ideas using plaster gauze, telephone wire, and more.
Alexander Calder Mobiles--Who was Alexander Calder and what did he create? Students will learn about this important artist, and then create their own spectacular mobiles with this lesson plan.
Gargoyle Masks--Find out here how to make a three dimensional gargoyle mask sculpture with just a few ingredients, and have it turn out like a real stone gargoyle.
Wild Moving Lizard Sculpture--Folding and cutting techniques create the movement in this wild green lizard. Use colored construction paper according to the results you want, and find further directions here for this fairly simple 3-D paper sculpture.
Geometric Cardboard Sculptures--Your students will be viewing works by Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others in this 3-D art lesson plan, as well as learning about organic shapes and positive and negative space. By closely observing environment and familiar scenes through a zoom perspective, students will refine their views and create interesting sculptures.
