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Art Lessons for Teachers

• A Brush with wildlife- Create a composition with Carl Rungius
• A Lifetime of Color- with K-8 lessons by Sanford.
• A Look at Mexican History through Research and Art- The goal of this unit is to engage students in creating a research table in which students will use higher-level thinking skills to analyze online art resources about the fall of the Aztec civilization and Spanish influence in Mexican history.
• Academy of Bordeaux Student work from France. Lots of ideas! See page 2 also. click on albums - then works within the albums for more images. No, 6 is students around 11 to 12, No. 5 is 12 or 13, No. 4 is 13 or 14 and No. 3 is 14 to 15.
• Adobe Curriculum Materials - Tutorials and lesson plans. Lots to explore. Also see Tips and Tutorials
• Adobe Digital Careers Teaching Resources- Free lessons in visual design foundations, foundations of web design, and foundations of video design and production.
• AE Connect - the art educators' virtual drop in center.  Site from Massachusetts College of Art - has extensive art education resources including Choice-Based Art Teaching. Lesson plans, tutorials, art + technology articles and more.
• African Masks- The is a great section on ArtyFactory that includes African mask samples, templates, quizes, and lessons.
• The Alphabet of Art, where you can learn about elements of art.
• AMACO Lesson Plans- The clay company has 30 lessons using clay and ceramics.
• American Montessori Consulting- Newsletter Winter,  AMC Fall Newsletter  AMC Spring Newsletter, Hands-on activities, crafts and recipes to engage learners. Interdisciplinary lessons. Free lessons for summer -visit Amonco.org and click on the Summer Lesson Planning Icon. Make musical instruments, participate in fun geography games, create some beautiful gift boxes and so much more.
• Anime Style Drawing Lessons- A few lessons by Akemi's Anime World.
• Art ABC's - See sample lessons by Pat Kodet.
• Art:21- A collection of art lessons by PBS.
• Art and Patriotic Culture- a lesson by the Indiana Historical Society. An understanding of the arts and World War II.
• Art a Facts™ Magazine Source for Art Lesson Plans and Teacher Resources for Art Education Elementary and Secondary Level. Five issues each year - Comes in set of 30 copies. Homeschool issue also available (consists of one copy of each of the five issues). From Judy: I would recommend you order a copy for elementary and secondary for yourself (see Homeschool  price - it is worth it!). Lessons are different for each level....Secondary can be adapted for lower grades, too.There is not much difference in reading level. Font is smaller on Secondary copy so there is more in depth information - also good for you to have. Internet resources are given as well as books.
• All the Daze- A page with creative activities and lessons.
• Art Education: Free Oil Painting Lesson. Learn how to paint an apple!
• Art Exposes- A high school lesson that integrates foreign language and art
• Art in English- There must be over 100 lessons by art therapist, Dorine Perach.
• Art Studio Chalkboard- With lessons on perspective, shadows, and depth by the Evansville University.
• ARTiculation: Learning To Look At Art- a comprehensive program designed to teach art criticism. Program contains over 50 printable and online activities!
• Artist Trading Cards - ATCs in the Classroom. Site by Dr. Craig Roland. In collaboration with Kris Fontes and Mary Elizabeth Meier, Union City High School, Pennsylvania.
• The Artist's Toolkit- Online lessons on Visual Elements and Principles.
• Art Kids- With K-6 and 7-12 art lessons. The art lessons are categorized by grade level and theme.
• Art Lessons and Ideas for Teachers- 図画工作・美術科の学習プラン集 This is a page of lessons by the Japan Art Education Association (JAEA) in Tokyo, Japan. National Curriculum Standards Reform for Kindergarten, Elementary School, Lower and Upper Secondary School and Schools for the Visually Disabled, the Hearing Impaired and the Otherwise Disabled. Links to lesson plans and curriculum materials. Japan Art Education Association See Art Lesson Plans from Ukita Elementary, Tokyo, Japan. See these art lesson plans:

  Bird computer graphics lesson
  Portrait lesson
  Sculpture lesson
  Automobile design
  Product design
  Environmental art
  Landscape Painting

• Art Lesson Plans- From Teacher Created Resources
• Art Projects- A page of art lessons by Barbara Sonek, an art teacher
• @rt Room- with many lessons and activities.
• ArtSmart- A visual arts guide with lessons geared to grade 4.
• The Art Window - Site by Marie Maier. Offers many how to lessons for the beginning artist. Art teachers may want to take a look for some good ideas.
• Art Studio Chalkboard, with color theory, perspective, shading techniques, and lots of other stuff.
• Art Teacher Lesson Plans Blog- A blog that includes a collection of lesson plans.
• ARTnet Nebraska Lesson Plan Index, a large collection of lessons.
• ArtsEdge- A must-see database from the Kennedy Center of lessons seachable by subject and grade. If we had time, we'd also sort our lessons here on IAD's lesson section.
• Artwork of World Cultures- A lesson by art teacher Leslie Emerich that integrates the Visual Arts and Social Studies.
• AskERIC, a large database of lessons. See their art lessons
• Aunt Annie's Craft Page, a site with craft lessons, and patterns.
• Big Cat Art- This lesson/tutorial teaches how to draw big cats such as leopards.
• Brandon Elementary Art Curriculum- Grade one lesson plans.
• Bright Ring Publishing's Free Art Activities & Lessons. They also have free handouts.
• BreBru's Art Room- with drawing, painting, Photoshop, animation lessons and more.
• Build an Easel This site will show you how to build your own heavy-duty easel, easily extensible to hold any size painting for under $100 in materials. Site by Benjamin Grosser.
• Cable in the Classroom Online - many connections to art with the History and Social Studies selections. See Calendar of Events and links to resource guides.
• Captain Watercolor- Larry Weiss has watercolor lessons on this site.
• CARE - Collaborative Arts Resources for Education - Web site consists of California standards-aligned arts-based lesson plans and resources for K-12 educators. Downloadable images from Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and the San Diego Museum of Art.
• Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures- This lesson integrates the visual arts with the study of the Cave of Lascaux.
• Ceramics and Pottery --Excellent instructional site by Kerry Marquis (teacher at Benjamin Banekker High School, Georgia). Takes you through the basic hand-building techniques, has online lessons, glossary and worksheets. PowerPoint on history of ceramics and more. A great resource for middle school and high school teachers!
• Character Art Education [doc]- A lesson incorporating the arts in character education.
• Chesterwood: The Workshop of an American Sculptor- This lesson combines history and the visual arts with the study of scultpor Daniel Chester French.
• Christmas Lessons- IAD's Christmas page.
• Classic Columns- An integration of art, social studies, language arts and math. This 6th grade lesson centers on Greek columns.
• Computer Art --Excellent instructional site by Kerry Marquis (teacher at Benjamin Banekker High School, Georgia). This site give you an outline for a high school curriculum (also suitable for middle school) with online lessons for Flash, student work sheets, PowerPoint presentations, Scavenger Hunts and more. A great resource for teachers in middle school and high school.
• Connected Learning There are K-12 art lessons/units that utilize technology as well as other subject areas. They were created as part of the Literacy Challenge Grant program in New York. All lessons are geared to state and national standards. Also find lessons for Health and Physical Education (HPEH), English and Language Arts (ELA), Social Studies (SS). Languages other than English (LOTE), Career Development Standards(CDOS) and Math/Science/Technology (MST).
• Constitution Day- IAD's page with lessons and information.
• Core Knowledge- Program for K-12. See how topics on the Sequence build from one grade to another. There are many curriculum resources online.
• Crafty Chica- A page with many craft lessons. This site was named site of the week for November, 2009.
• Crayola Activities and Lessons- A page with lessons, activities, and craft ideas focusing on Youth Art Month.
• Creating a Class Website- Excellent instructional site by Kerry Marquis (teacher at Benjamin Banekker High School, Georgia). Designed to help teachers create their own sites. Give guidelines and tips for organizing. Use to help students design sites, as well.
• Crizmac Art and Cultural Education Materials Here is help for your multicultural lessons. Make Crizmac your first place to stop for purchasing multi-cultural materials for your classroom. Everything from folk art pieces to cultural music, art prints and videos. Books galore! Phone 1 -800-913-8555 for a free catalog.
• Cultural Cottage- You can find lessons focusing on international cultures.
• Curriculum Ideas- A page in English and Japanese. See photo samples of lessons.
• Curriculum Units for K-12 Art From Tokyo, Japan (you do not need to install the characters to view the site). Student art works, curriculum ideas, art and craft lessons, art project, computer graphics; art links; art galleries; integrated curriculum units for
  K-12. 
• Daniel Smith's Free Art Lessons- with painting and printmaking lessons.
• Desk Top Publishing Lessons for K-12
• Detroit Institute for the Arts- This section has Egyptian art lessons.
• Dick Blick's Art Lessons Page- Includes an archive of many lessons.
• Digital Video - Students learn to become more media literate. They learn to plan and produce video projects, decode images and messages within media and decide what makes a powerful and effective message.
• Digital Imaging with Photoshop Elements and KidPix -page with links to tutorials and lesson plans. KidPix is gret for elementary students. PhotoShop Elements is quality software that is more affordable than the full version of PhotoShop.
• Discovering Relationships Between European Art and Society- An art criticism lesson by art teacher Brian McGuckin for 6th grades.
• Divisor Plot- Integrating art and mathematics.
• DragoArt- This site has lots of lessons and tutorials.
• Early Childhood Arts and Crafts, with art lessons for young children involving movement, music and dance from Earlychildhood.com. Lots of lesson ideas and crafts.
• IAD's Easter Page- with lessons and activities
• Educating People with Disabilities Compilation of resources by Bernie Poole and Yvonne Singer. "We'd like to do what we can to educate people with disabilities." See Yvonne's site.
• Edhelper.com- See art thematic units for grades K-6, art mysteries, and art movement samples.
• EdSITEment's Lesson Plans- This page has many lessons (not all of them art related).
• Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs- An art lesson by EdSITEment that teaches symbolism and hieroglyphic art.
• Elementary Art Lesson Plans by Michal Austin. More ideas on The Art Kids
• Elementary Art Lesson Plans - by Sandy Meadors. Hands on art lessons and computer graphics lesson ideas. See Stitchery lesson ideas.
• Elements of Art through Photography, a 5th grade photography lesson by Kodak.
• Enchanted Learning - site packed with ideas, crafts, handouts and more for early childhood and elementary age children.  Geography, maps, science activities, animal printouts, oceans, whales and so much more.
• Eric Carle's Picture Book Art- This includes tutorials for creating collages, murals, and with tissue paper.
• ESL Enrichment Curriculum- Lesson plans geared to students whose native language is not English.  
• Everything ESL - K-12 Resources Lesson plans, teacher tips and resources. Site by New Jersey educator Judie Haynes.
• Exploring Linear Perspective- A lesson using art by Leonardo Da Vinci.
• Eyes on Art, with art lessons on the elements of art. It even comes with a teacher's guide and a quiz.
• Famous Paintings for Students - pages for elementary students with biographies of artists and worksheets for the lessons. Nice section on telling stories with paintings (black and white reproductions).
• Fine Art Online: Lesson Plans from Harcourt Publishing,  for grades one thru five.
• Fractals Lesson by Cynthia Lanius A Fractals Unit for Elementary and Middle School Students. A few relatives of Mandelbrot Set.
• Free Kids Crafts- Provides a starting source for all the best kids craft projects on the internet.
• From Prints to Pixels - The Evolving Digital Image Digital cameras, scanners, imaging software, printers, computers and the internet empower students and teachers to use images more effectively than traditional film based photographs. One picture may be worth a thousand words, but a digital image may be used in thousands of ways and seen by thousands of people. By Harold Olejarz
• Funding Factory- Lesson Plans for art appreciation, drawing, and painting.
• Geometry Through Art. This site has art lessons integrated with math. Check it out!
• The Geometry of 3-D Drawing- With six lessons integrating art and geometry. See 3-D Drawing and Geometry, Isometric Drawing, Oblique Drawing, and Perspective Drawing.
• Giga Palette Middle School technology lessons -- innovative projects that promote creative self-expression and divergent thinking.
• Graphics Den, Digital art - which includes art lessons and a gallery for older students.
• Halloween Page- A Lessons page by IAD.
• Haring Kids- K-12 lessons relating to the late graffiti artist Keith Haring.
• Harold Olejarz -- From Prints to Pixels - Using Digital Images in the Classroom. Links to image sites and lessons plans using digital images.
• The Hoosier Group... Integrating Art Across the Curriculum- A K-12 lesson that introduces students to Cecil Head, William Forsyth, T.C. Steele, Gene Stratton Porter, and Paul Dresse.
• How do Artists Get Ideas? I list of ideas to get your student thinking. Discus the source of ideas inteh artists and cultures you teach.
• How to Read a Painting, Learning Art Criticism Skills to Enrich the Museum Experience.
• Human Design, Good Robot Production- Lessons on creating robots. See the page in its original Japanese language here.
• The Incredible Art Test. We hope you enjoy our attempt at Javascript!
• Integrating Art into the Curriculum - try Response-O-Matic Here is a great way to impress your administrators. We all know that art is the most important subject in school. Develop a form that will help your core teachers integrate art - AND will help YOU integrate their course content. Instructions how to create forms are on the site.
• Introduction to Fine Art Study Guide- This is a wonderful guide with a summary of the elements and history of art. They have other guides located here, and here.
• Jan Brett's Home Page, a resource page for art teachers. Over 1000 activity pages.
• Jazz Collage- A lesson by retired art teacher Woody Duncan
• Jersey Online Learning- A collection of projects, including a Matisse collage..
• KIDLINK Global Networking for Youth through Secondary School - Empowers children to build global social and knowledge networks. Information and activities for parents, youth/students and teachers.
• Kids Crafts- a collection of lessons by Kids-birthday-party-guide.com.
• KidzArt Site created by Marvin Grossman D.Ed - to encourage the art in education. KidzArt is for art teachers, classroom teachers, parents and any other persons interested in our children's' artistic creative development. Lesson plan, digital art and more. Dr. Grossman's Art Education Philosophy.
• Kidz Online- with technology related art lessons. Categorized by grade level and unit.
• Kinder Art, with free art lessons for students in K-8.
• Kindergarten -Remember these BEST Kindergarten Lessons
• Kinder Start Learning Activities and Crafts- All sorts of things for young children. Take a look. Try the search feature. Kinder Start makes it's 'best of the 'net' Search Engine for Parents and Caregivers available at no cost to WebSites, as a Public Service.
• Kite Art (Tako-age)- Mario Kawashima has his students create kite art at his school using Washi paper. You can also see a collection of kite art lessons here.
• The Knowledge Loom - Choice Based  Art Education - an interactive best-practice website created by The Education Alliance at Brown University with initial funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Choice-based art classrooms simulate studios, offering effective organization of space, time, and materials that enable students to create work which is individual, compelling, and personally meaningful. Helpful tips on TAB Choice Web Log - More resources for TAB Choice
• Landscape Painting: Artists Who Love the Land Smithsonian in the Classroom. Views of the American West and the Rocky Shore. Art Criticism, history and geography.
• Larry Prescott's Art Activities for Young Students- This art teacher has about 20 lessons posted here.
• Learn to Draw Books. Step by step on how to draw animals, insects creatures of all kinds and more. Kids love them!
• Lesson Ideas for art from Teachnet.
• LessonBreeze- A new site where teachers can contribute as well as search for art lessons. This site is brand new, so there won't be many lessons yet.
• Lesson Plans and Art Activities- With a collection of art projects and lessons.
• Lesson Plan links -  Drawing and Perspective  -  Art Criticism - Technology Lesson Plans
• Lewis & Clark- A thematic instruction unit on Lewis and Clark by Ken Rohrer. It includes the arts integrated with social studies, and other core subjects.
• Library of Congress- This page has many lessons and lesson resources. Most are of a historical nature but can be integrated into the visual arts.
• Magic Places and Creative Spaces - from Committed to Curriculum. 200 pages of resources for early childhood education. Lots of ideas for pre-school through primary grades.
• Mark Kistler's Online Art Lessons- With animated and video art lessons.
• Mathematics in Art?- A 5th grade lesson by art teacher Andrea Davis that explores the relationship of mathematics in art.
• McREL Lesson Plan Library- A large number of lesson plans!
• Model Schools  Art Education Resources. Art Advocacy, Lesson Plans, School links, Museum links and more.
• Mrs. Reedy's Web Page - Clements High School - Art Teacher Donna Reedy.  Here is an excellent site that has basic lessons for middle school and high school. Middle school lessons are from  when Donna taught at Hodges Bend Middle School. See her Elements Introductory  Lectures. 
• National Association of Comics Art Educators site includes articles, exercises, handouts, and tutorials on creating and teaching comics in the classroom.
• National Gallery of Art - Free loan program. This federally-funded program has over 120 free-loan education resources. Titles, ranging in format from color slide programs and teaching packets, to videocassettes, CD-ROMs and DVD's.
• New York Times Fine Arts Lessons (most are interdisciplinary) New York Times Learning Network
• NGA Classroom for Teachers and Students- This site is an incredible resource with hundreds of lessons that are searchable. This site makes it easy to integrate art into other subject areas.
• Norman Rockwell: Then and Now- A 7th & 8th grade art criticism lesson by Angela Samuelson
• NTeQ Lesson Planner- View hundreds of lessons that integrate technology. You can also use their lesson plan creator to make plans of your own.
• Origami Paper Art by Joseph Wu.
• Painting Children in Watercolor- An online Powerpoint of lessons by retired art teacher Woody Duncan.
• Paper Folding Project
• Paper Mache- How to make paper maché masks.
• PBS Nature- Good for finding lessons to integrate with nature related subject.
• Photo Design -- Excellent instructional site by Kerry Marquis (teacher at Benjamin Banekker High School, Georgia). This introductory course to photo design incorporates a history of photography as well as the creating of a pinhole camera and a personal photo journal.
• Poetry and the Visual Arts- A 6th grade lesson by teacher Jenny Amburgy. The title is self-explanatory.
• Quazen- A lesson on name tag art.
• Reading is Fundamental - Art of Reading,  Lesson plans, Illustrators at Work, artists biographies, web resources and more. Los of interdisciplinary possibilities. Fun activities for kids 
• RetaNet, art lessons on the Americas. Art, Dance, Folklife, and Food.
• The Royal Art of Benin- An EdSITEment 3rd - 5th grade lesson that incorporates the history of the kingdom of Benin and art.
• Sanford & a Lifetime of Color- a great site with many art lessons.
• Sax Project and Lesson Plan Ideas- a collection of hundreds of art lessons.
• SEED - Spreading Educator to Educator Developments  Search for Lesson plan packets by grade level or content area. Here are just a few of the middle school lesson plans on the site:
  

  Teaching Local Culture and Heritage (interdisciplinary)
  Constructing a Geometric Quilt Design:
  Storytelling through Clay Animation:
  Math Arts

• Sewing Crafts- A collection of sewing crafts for kids.
• Share2Learn- A site with lesson ideas, sample art work, integrating math with art and more.
• Silicon Valley Art Museum: Free Art Lessons- While the lessons are aimed at children, they are not limited to children. Older children and adults may find them equally appealing. Portraits, landscapes, puppets and more - many art appreciation based. Suitable for many age levels - Some easy enough for a substitute.
• Sketching & Sculpture (PDF)- A lesson by the National Gallery of Art.
• SMART Exchange- You can download many free art lessons for smart boards.
• Songs in the Key of Art  -Time to get Comprehensive! Include music. Songs by Greg Percy. Buy all three CD's  and never run out of fun in the Art Room! Let Greg know some topics/artists for new material - You never know (smile). Gosh- I'd love to be a student in Greg's class. Greg is a Madison, Wisconsin, elementary school art teacher.
• Smithsonian Education- Their collection of Art and Design lesson plans.
• Spiral Art Education - site designed for art teachers to share innovative
  approaches to middle school and high school art curriculum
  developed by research projects spiraling out from the UIC Art
  Education Program (University of Illinois at Chicago).
• Star Poster Program Posters for Peace - designed to help promote peace and other social concerns through art lessons on how to create posters. Site by Robert Bear, art teacher.
• Stories in Quilts- A K-12 lesson by EdSITEment that gives history of the art of quilting.
• Structure of Man- with video lessons on drawing the human figure.
• St. Patrick's Day Lessons- A lessons page by IAD.
• Teach Art- a great page with art curriculum and art-intensive lesson plans.
• Teach Art at Home - free art lesson plans with color, illustrated instructions by Karine Bauch. Easy enough for home school moms.
• Teacher Created Resources, where you can buy and sell lesson plans and other resources. Got a great lesson? Sell it here!
• Teachers.Net - Lesson Plans. Many ideas listed that may spark a lesson. Click on Arts and Crafts.
• Teachers' Guide for the Professional Cartoonist- A great page that has lessons that incorporate cartoons. Browse the thousands of cartoons while you're there.
• Teaching and Learning Through Design, Creativity, and Technology Site by Dr. Doreen Nelson. See what is working in urban education. Resources, Interdisciplinary ideas, methodology - Lots to see.
• Teach-nology "The best of the Web"...Downloads, lesson plans, rubrics, printables, and more.
• Techy Teacher- Hundreds of art lessons K-6. Also look up their lessons for grades 7-12.
• Thinking Fountain- They have several early chldhood lessons on their site. Among them includes indicator art, spaghetti sculpture, radial chromatography, and symmetry.
• Thomas Eakins- Scenes from Everyday Life - PBS Lesson plans using ideas presented in the documentary as a starting point for further academic investigation and classroom activity.
• "Touch Drawing" - or Trace Method Monotype Watch the demo to see how simple this is. Experiment to see how you can get water base inks to work.
• Tessellations Project, a lesson using Escher-like patterns instead of polygons, triangles, and squares. Incorporates math and art. About the project
• Toolkit for Art Educators - Lesson Planning software by Ann Ayers. Enter your lesson plans, align them to your state standards, add connections for the elements of art, principles of design, testing skills, national technology standards, ESOL and ESE strategies. Create worksheets, rubrics and more. Also see the Workshop Presentations on CD with lesson ideas, processes and more.
• United Arts and Education- With many lessons and activities.
• Valentine Lessons- A lessons page by IAD.
• Value and Intensity- A lesson by the Utah Education Network.
• The Virtual Classroom- A wonderful collection of art lessons for the middle school level.
• Virtual Seashells, a page incorporating mathematics and art using VRML. Also see his Carotid-Kundalini Functions for really advanced math and art.
• Visual Arts Notebook Visual Arts References and Resources. Check out the notes for history of art education and ancient Greece. See activities for children, materials information - themes and more.
• Warner Bros. Animation Page. I can't tell you how much fun your kids will have with this one. Games, pictures, sounds, and videos are all through this site! Learn how they make cartoons.
• Western Art- A resource for art lessons relating to architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture from around the world.
• WhyArt.com: Transforming Education Through Art. Lessons for Middle School students integrating technology. Site by Michael Garrish.
• Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?, an interdisciplinary collaboration between students in a Bronx High School with partners in Sweden.
• Woody's Lesson Plan Pages- A collection of around 30 lessons.
• YES Mag's Projects- A large collection of art lessons with visual aides and templates.

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