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A Brush with Wildlife - Several lessons by Carl Rungius and others.
A Look at Mexican History through Research and Art [Archive]- 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.
AE Connect [Archive] - 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, quizzes, 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 Fall Newsletter, AMC Spring Newsletter, AMC Summer Newsletter, [Archives] Hands-on activities, crafts and recipes to engage learners. Interdisciplinary lessons. See their art history lessons [Archive]. Free lessons for summer [Archive].
Anime Style Drawing Lessons - A few lessons by Akemi's Anime World.
Art:21 - [Archive] A collection of art lessons by PBS. See the archive.
Art and Patriotic Culture [Archive] - A lesson by the Indiana Historical Society. An understanding of the arts and World War II. Also see the lesson called Paint and Canvas
, [Archive] a lesson on T.C. Steele.
Art a Facts™ Magazine - [Archive] Source for Art Lesson Plans and Teacher Resources for Art Education Elementary and Secondary Level. Comes in set of 30 copies. Homeschool issue also available (consists of one copy of each of the five issues). The publisher is no longer printing new copies but you can still get back issues.
All the Daze - [Archive] A page with creative activities and lessons.
Art Access - an interactive site by the Art Institute of Chicago. This site is jammed with lessons in the subject of Africa art, African American art, Chinese art, and much more!
Art Education: Free Oil Painting Lesson. Learn how to paint an apple!
Art of Education - Many K-12 art lessons.
Art Exposes [Archive] - 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 Lessons for Kids - A blog by art teacher Ms. Alejandra in Bolivia.
Art Studio Chalkboard - With lessons on perspective, shadows, and depth by the Evansville University.
ARTiculation: Learning To Look At Art [Archive] - A comprehensive program designed to teach art criticism. Program contains over 50 printable and online activities! This was an early site on the internet and the archive is here for viewing.
Artist Trading Cards - ATCs in the Classroom [Archive] - Site by Dr. Craig Roland. In collaboration with Kris Fontes and Mary Elizabeth Meier, Union City High School, Pennsylvania. See resources for this activity.
The Artist's Toolkit - [Archive] Online lessons on Visual Elements and Principles.
The Art Kids [Archive] - 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. to lesson plans and curriculum materials. 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 PaintingArt Lesson Plans - From Teacher Created Resources
Art Projects [Archive] - A page of art lessons by Barbara Sonek, an art teacher
Art-Rageous Website - A collection of lessons by art teacher Sharon Barrett Kennedy
@rt Room [Archive] - With many lessons and activities. Another great site from Craig Roland.
ArtSmart - A visual arts guide with lessons geared to grade 4.
The Art Window - [Archive] 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 - A Pinterest page that includes many lessons.
ArtsEdge - A must-see database from the Kennedy Center of lessons searchable by subject and grade.
Artwork of World Cultures [Archive] - A lesson by art teacher Leslie Emerich that integrates the Visual Arts and Social Studies.
AskERIC [Archive] - Also known as the Educator's Reference Desk. This incredible site has disappeared but remains in the archives.
Aunt Annie's Craft Page, a site with craft lessons, and patterns.
BBe Much: Teaching the Principles of Design
- This is a huge resource that includes lessons as well as information on art education.
Brandon Elementary Art Curriculum [Archive] - Grade one lesson plans. See their Common Core art curriculum.
Bright Ring Publishing's [Archive] Free Art Activities & Lessons. They also have free handouts [Archive]. You can see her new page of art activities here.
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.
CCable in the Classroom Online - [Archive] Many connections to art with the History and Social Studies selections.
Captain Watercolor - Larry Weiss has watercolor lessons on this site.
CARE - Collaborative Arts Resources for Education - [Archive] Web site consists of searchable arts-based lesson plans and resources for K-12 educators. Downloadable images [Archive] 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.
Center for Cartoon Studies (Formerly the National Association of Comics Art Educators) - This site includes articles, exercises, handouts, and tutorials on creating and teaching comics in the classroom.
Ceramics and Pottery - [Archive] 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
- 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 sculptor Daniel Chester French.
Christmas Lessons - IAD's Christmas page. Scroll down for the lessons.
Classic Columns [Archive] - An integration of art, social studies, language arts and math. This 6th grade lesson centers on Greek columns.
Club Penguin Arts and Crafts - [Archive] Disney has several lessons on this page.
Computer Art [Archive] - 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 - [Archive] 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.
Crafty Chica - A page with many craft lessons. She has another site with additional ideas. This site was named site of the week by IAD for November, 2009.
Crayola Activities and Lessons - A page with lessons, activities, and craft ideas focusing on Youth Art Month. Also see their page of Crafts Ideas.
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. Phone 1 -800-913-8555 for a free catalog.
C Tupa - A series of YouTube drawing and paiting tutorial videos.
Cultural Cottage [Archive] - You can find lessons focusing on international cultures.
Curriculum Ideas - 図画工作科と[総合的な学習の時間]年間計画 - A page in English and Japanese. See photo samples of lessons.
Curriculum Units for K-12 Art From Tokyo, Japan. Student art works, curriculum ideas, art and craft lessons, art project, computer graphics; art; art galleries; integrated curriculum units for K-12.
DDeep Space Sparkle - Although there are lessons on this site for a fee, there are many that are free.
Desktop Publishing Lessons for K-12 [Archive] About.com's page with lessons.
Detroit Institute for the Arts - [Archive] 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 to tutorials and lesson plans. KidPix is great for elementary students. PhotoShop Elements is quality software that is more affordable than the full version of PhotoShop.
Divisor Plot - Integrating art and mathematics.
DragoArt - This site has lots of lessons and tutorials.
Drawspace - With 100+ drawing lessons.
EEarly Childhood Arts and Crafts, [Archive] 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."
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 just arts and crafts.
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs - An art lesson by EdSITEment that teaches symbolism and hieroglyphic art.
Elementary Art Lesson Plans [Archive] by Michal Austin. More ideas on The Art Kids [Archive].
Elementary Art Lesson Plans - [Archive] by Sandy Meadors. Hands on art lessons and computer graphics lesson ideas. See Stitchery lesson ideas.
Elements of Art through Photography, [Archive] 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, [Archive] with art lessons on the elements of art. It even comes with a teacher's guide and a quiz.
FFairbanks North Star Borough School District - They have had a very strong art program for years. This page includes lesson plans and other important documents.
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 through five.
Flip Books - This lesson from Teach Animation shows how to create animation using Flipbooks.
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.
Free Online Art Lessons - With lessons in pencil drawing, oil painting, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, pastel painting and pen and ink drawing.
Free Photo Course.com - With free basic photography lessons.
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 - [Archive] Lesson Plans for art appreciation, drawing, and painting.
GGeometry Through Art [Archive] - This site has art lessons integrated with math. Check it out!
Getty Center for Education - This includes a collection of lessons as well as instructions to create an art lesson. You can also do a search for lessons.
The Geometry of 3-D Drawing - [Archive] With six lessons integrating art and geometry. See 3-D Drawing and Geometry, Isometric Drawing, Oblique Drawing, and Perspective Drawing [Archives].
Giga Palette [Archive] - Middle School technology lessons -- innovative projects that promote creative self-expression and divergent thinking. See the new site and the Day of the Dead Unit.
GRAFICA Obscura - A compilation of technical notes, lessons, pictures, and essays.
Graphics Den, Digital art - which includes art lessons and a gallery for older students.
HHalloween Page - A Lessons page by IAD.
Hands-On Math Activities for Grades 2, 3, and 4 - A site with lessons relating to math and art by Zachary J. Brewer.
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. to image sites and lessons plans using digital images.
How do Artists Get Ideas? - The IAD list of ideas to get your student thinking. Discuss the source of ideas in the artists and cultures you teach.
How to Read a Painting, [Archive] Learning Art Criticism Skills to Enrich the Museum Experience.
How-to Tutorials [Archive] - Several art lessons with a Korean flavor.
Human Design, Good Robot Production - Lessons on creating robots. See the page in its original Japanese language here.
IIllustrated Lesson Notes for Teachers [Archive] - You can find several great lessons here.
Imagination Factory - A page of art lessons in categories.
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.
ISB Art History Channel - The videos on this channel explore various aspects of contemporary art. Specifically designed for high school students, these videos explore various themes of modern and postmodern art with an emphasis on critical analysis. See this page [Archive] for supporting curriculum materials.
JJan 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.
KKIDLINK - 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 [Archive] - a collection of lessons by Kids-birthday-party-guide.com.
KidzArt [Archive] - 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.
Kinder Art, with free art lessons for students in K-8.
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 [Archive] - 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
LLandscape 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 [Archive] - This art teacher has about 20 lessons posted here.
Larry's Toon Institute - They have animation courses and lesson plans.
Learn to Draw Books - Step by step on how to draw animals, insects creatures of all kinds and more. Kids love them!
Learning Connection - You have to have an account in order to access the lessons. Look in their communities section for lessons and activities.
Lesson Corner - They link to many lessons in all subject areas.
Lesson Ideas for art from Teachnet.
Lesson Planet - Most of what they have costs money but they have a huge inventory!
Lesson Plans and Art Activities - With a collection of art projects and lessons.
Lesson Plans for the Arts and Media - A page with extensive lessons by the Vocational Information Center.
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.
MMark Kistler's Online Art Lessons - With animated and video art lessons.
Masterpiece Art Instruction - With about 30 free art lessons for download.
McREL Lesson Plan Library - A large number of lesson plans!
Model Schools [Archive] - You can find the lesson on landscape in Bryce
, Digital Masterpiece, and Wood Shape Pictures [Archives]
Mrs. Brown's Art Class - Great site with lots of elementary level lessons.
Mrs. Picasso's Art Room - This site by Ohio art teacher Denise Pannell includes lots of images to go with her lessons.
Mrs. Reedy's Web Page [Archive] - 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. See the documents on her new home page.
NNational Education Association - This is NEA's Lesson Plan Search that includes several subjects.
National Gallery of Art - 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. See the NYT Fine Art Lessons Archive.
National Core Knowledge [Archive] - Art lessons in PDF format.
NTeQ Lesson Planner [Archive] - View hundreds of lessons that integrate technology. You can also use their lesson plan creator to make plans of your own.
OOrigami Paper Art by Joseph Wu.
PPBS Nature [Archive] - Good for finding lessons to integrate with nature related subject.
Phenakistoscopes - This lesson from Teach Animation shows how to animate using 16 images.
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.
Pixelation - A lesson from Teach Animation that shows how to create animation using pixelation.
Powhatan Village - A lesson on how to make a Powhatan Village from Brady Elementary in Illinois.
QQ-Tip Pointilism - A lesson on pointillism using Q-Tips.
RReading is Fundamental (RIF) Illustrators at Work, [Archive] artists biographies, web resources and more. Lots of interdisciplinary possibilities. Also see Riffington's Art Studio. [Archive]
RetaNet, art lessons on the Americas. Art, Dance, Folklife, and Food.
Rotoscoping - A lesson from Teach Art that shows how to create animation using rotoscopes. See Photoshop rotoscoping image sample for basic Photoshop and Advanced Photoshop.
The Royal Art of Benin - [Archive] An EdSITEment 3rd - 5th grade lesson that incorporates the history of the kingdom of Benin and art.
SSan Diego Museum of Art - This page has a collection of lesson plans in PDF form. Also see their archive of lesson plans.
Sax Project and Lesson Plan Ideas [Archive] - a collection of hundreds of art lessons.
Scholastic - Many arts and crafts lessons on this site.
SEED Lessons [Archive]
Teaching Local Culture and Heritage [Archive]
Constructing a Geometric Quilt Design: [Archive]
Storytelling through Clay Animation: [Archive]
Math Arts: [Archive]Selections from William A. Walmsley [Archive] - A group of around ten lessons chosen by a professor.
Self-Directed Art - A blog with lessons using the TAB strategy. See more TAB ideas on Choice Art at Bountiful Elementary.
Sewing Crafts - A collection of sewing crafts for kids.
Share2Learn - A site with lesson ideas, sample art work, integrating math with art and more.
Share My Lesson - This site has free lessons for all subject matters.
Silicon Valley Art Museum: Free Art Lessons [Archive] - 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 [Archive]
- 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 five CD's and never run out of fun in the Art Room! Let Greg know some topics/artists for new material. Greg is a Madison, Wisconsin, elementary school art teacher.
Smithsonian Education - Their collection of Art and Design lesson plans.
Spiral Art Education - [Archive] This 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 [Archive] - 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.
Stop Motion - A lesson from Teach Animation that shows how to do stop-motion animation.
Stories in Quilts - [Archive] 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.
TTeach Art at Home - free art lesson plans with color, illustrated instructions by Karine Bauch. Easy enough for home school moms.
Teachers.Net - Lesson Plans. Many ideas listed that may spark a lesson. Click on Arts and Crafts.
The Teachers Guide - With a list of free art lessons on the web.
Teachers Helping Teachers - [Archive] A page of art lessons. You can see an archive of their winter holiday art lessons here. See another archive of fall holiday art lessons. You can see an archive of other holiday lessons here.
Teaching and Learning Through Design, Creativity, and Technology - [Archive] 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 [Archive] - Hundreds of art lessons K-6. Also look up their lessons for grades 7-12 [Archive].
The Virtual Instructor - With free art lessons and videos by art teacher, Matt Fussell.
The Warhol Lessons - From the Andy Warhol Museum. You can search by grade level.
Think Art Now - See sample lessons by Pat Kodet.
Thinking Fountain - They have several early childhood 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 simple lesson using Escher-like patterns instead of polygons, triangles, and squares. The lesson incorporates math and art and includes student images. About the project
Two-Image Electronic Flipbook with Flash - A lesson by Teach Animation that shows how to create animation on Flash. You can see student examples here.
Workshop Presentations on CD with lesson ideas, processes and more.
UUmber Under Drawing Tutorial - This one is how to draw a horse. Tutorial by Carrie L. Lewis.
United Arts and Education - With many lessons and activities.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts - This is their art lessons page.
VValentine Lessons - A lessons page by IAD.
Value and Intensity - A lesson by the Utah Education Network.
Vancouver Sculpture Biennale - A collection of lessons developed in partnership with the Vancouver School Board.
Virtual Seashells, a page incorporating mathematics and art using VRML. Also see his Carotid-Kundalini Functions for really advanced math and art.
Výtvarka pro děti - A collection of art lessons from the Czech Republic. See this translation for English.
WWestern Art - [Archive] A resource for art lessons relating to architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture from around the world.
WhyArt.com: Transforming Education Through Art - [Archive] Lessons for Middle School students integrating technology. Site by Michael Garrish.
Woody's Lesson Plan Pages - A collection of around 30 lessons.
YYES Mag's Projects [Archive] - A large collection of art lessons with visual aides and templates.
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