Remembrance Through Public Art
In this lesson, students will examine Maya Ying Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and explore public art as a way to remember history. After studying and researching an important historical event or person, students can present historical kno
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See What I Hear
This exercise demonstrates relationships between music and color, emotion and imagery. Students will listen to different passages of music and visually depict what they hear.
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A More Perfect Product (Industrial design)
Introduce students to the field of industrial design as a career and a field of art. Explore the processes used by industrial designers to design useful, safe and appealing mass-produced objects. Students will select an object from their home or classroom
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Proportional Portraits
Many artists make realistic portraits to show a likeness of their subject. To create realistic faces, artists study live models, use mathematics to understand correct proportion, and practice by making sketches. Students will explore these ideas by studyi
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Artists... are in their right mind!
In this lesson students will develop a simple understanding of the brain's two hemispheres and their separate yet connected functions. They will understand that if they are to improve their drawing skills they should learn to "get into their right minds".
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City Streets in One-Point Perspective
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Design a House
This lesson will help you lead students in a discussion about the basics of house design including the influence of site, materials, function, form and style. Students will explore these concepts by creating a floor plan and conceptual drawing of a house.
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Designing Future Houses
Students should be familiar with the basics of designing a house and the roles of site, materials, function, form and aesthetics. They should be comfortable drawing floor plans. These concepts are covered in the lesson Design a House as well as in the onl
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Exploring the Deep
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Fantasy Buildings in Two-Point Perspective
Many artists are very interested in making two-dimensional artworks look three-dimensional. During the Renaissance, artists used mathematics and close observation to invent "linear perspective"-a technique that helps artists make things look three dimensi
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Watercolor Landscapes
In this lesson, students will explore watercolor paints as a medium for landscape paintings. Building on skills gained in Lesson Plan: Watercolor Painting Techniques, they will use watercolor paints to create a landscape painting.
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Watercolor Painting Techniques
In this lesson, students will explore the medium of watercolor paints. They will observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry). Then students will experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercol
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Designing Future Transportation
Introduce students to the field of industrial design as a career and a field of art. They will identify examples of mass-produced products. Students will learn that industrial designers try to design products that are useful, safe and look attractive. Stu
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Art's New Deal
Read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle and discuss the pattern of language in the story. What do you notice about the words on each page? How are they the same? How are they different?
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Recipe for Ratios
Read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle and discuss the pattern of language in the story. What do you notice about the words on each page? How are they the same? How are they different?
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The Living Earth
Read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle and discuss the pattern of language in the story. What do you notice about the words on each page? How are they the same? How are they different?
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Listening Mystery
Read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle and discuss the pattern of language in the story. What do you notice about the words on each page? How are they the same? How are they different?
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