Elementary and Middle School Lesson Plans: Arts

Links checked on 8/15/09

1. A Mask For All Seasons - Create a plaster craft mask to depict the four seasons.
2. A. Pintura - Art Detective - an online game about art history and art composition.
3. ArtsEdge From the Kennedy Center - helps educators to teach in, through and about the Arts.
4. Art History Resources on the Web -From prehistoric to 20th century, there are also links to non-European art and museums
5. The Art Kids - Lesson plans for K-6 and 7-12 (Caution: this is a free site hosted by GeoCities and occasionally you will find that it has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Go early in the hour.)
6. Art Webquest - Visual arts; 5th grade but can be adapted - major art movement research; select the paintings which best represent this period in art.
7. Artful Installations: 3D Constructions - 8th grade major art talent class, but it is easily adaptable to all age groups: students use problem-solving skills, communication, and a diversity of tasks to create a three-dimensional version of a two-dimensional painting.
8. Best Lessons from WNET, the great PBS station in New York. This link is Art only, but there is an index at the top of the page to view other subjects.
9. Blick Art Materials Lesson Plans - Search by grade level or by discipline.
10. Chasing Vermeer: A DaVinci Code for Children - Observe and explore famous paintings by Vermeer. They will do online research about the history of this artist and his paintings, noting the particular use of his light, shadow and interior settings.
11. China CultureQuest - Lesson plan - learn about Chinese brush painting, calligraphy, and names then practice using the brush with tempera paint, as students draw and write Chinese words they find in their online research.
12. Claude Monet - Students explore and appreciate the life and work of Impressionist artist Claude Monet. They gather information to write a biography on him and sketch an original landscape in his style.
13. Claude Monet and his friends and followers - Meet some of the most famous artists
14. Compare and Contrast - Select two works of art from a list of 26. Then click the "Begin Essay" button in the selection box that displays your selections to write your own short essay comparing the works of art. This is a display from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
15. Drawing In One-Point Perspective - Step-by-step instructions for basic one-point
16. How to Draw a Head - Multimedia directions on how to draw a head
17. How to Draw Tutorials
    1. How to Draw a Dog - Progressing from circles to the dog drawing
    2. How to Draw Ears - human ears as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) ears.
    3. How to Draw Eyes - human eyes as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) eyes.
    4. How to Draw Faces - basic methods to draw general anime faces.
    5. How to Draw Hands - human hands as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) hands.
    6. How to Draw a Hamster - progressing from circles to the hamster drawing.
    7. How to Draw a Jumping Man - progressing from circles to the jumping man drawing.
    8. How to Draw a Stretching Woman - progressing from circles to the stretching woman drawing.
    9. How to Draw It - how to make stylized cartoon type drawings of lots of animals.
    10. How to Draw (for Kids) - these step-by-step drawing exercises are designed for children.
18. Favorite Art Lessons from the incredible Art Department -This site lists lessons from Early Childhood to Undergraduate. Wow! They even have lesson suggestions for days when you will have a substitute.
19. Inside Art - An adventure in art history by Educational Web Adventures.
20. K12 Lesson Plans - Resource posted by the Los Angeles County Office of Education TEAMS Distance Learning Project for the following subject areas: Mathematics, Science, History/Social Science, Language Arts, The Arts, and Multi-Subject Lesson Plans. Each subject contains multiple sites you can explore.
21. KinderArt - art education for kids of all ages
22. Leonardo - Exploring Leonardo; his perspectives, his shorthand and more.
23. Lesson Plan Central - art lesson plans, worksheets, clipart and activities
24. Light Walk - [this link opens on a new page] a "light hearted" look at light, shadow, and images. Also, read how to make your own pinhole camera.
25. Light and Color - activities designed to give ideas about light and color
26. Make a Town - [this link opens on a new page] a learning project to create a model town using free software (PC/Windows only)
27. Music, Art, and PE Lesson Plans and Resources - from a homeschool site
28. National Gallery of Art presents Adventures with Art Links
    1. James Jacques Tissot
    2. George Catlin
    3. Martin Johnson Heade
    4. Jacques-Louis David
    5. Wassily Kandinsky
    6. John Singleton Copley
    7. Rogier van der Weyden
    8. Frank Stella
29. The National Standards for Arts Education - [this link opens on a new page] Developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations (under the guidance of the National Committee for Standards in the Arts)
30. Perspective - lesson; learn how to use perspective in your drawings and paintings to create the illusion of depth
31. Picasso - [this link opens on a new page] The works of Pablo Picasso are presented at the OnLine Picasso Project (7,044 catalogued works)
32. Teach Art - [this link opens on a new page] lesson plans from Sanford
33. Think Art - [this link opens on a new page] many lesson plans
34. Visual Art Lesson Plans - [this link opens on a new page] from Teachnology