2005 Lesson Plans
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We are always on the lookout for new lesson ideas. Here are some fresh projects for 2005!
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Click on any of the images below to view the entire lesson plan.
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EXAMPLE
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TITLE AND DESCRIPTION
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GRADES
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Students will enjoy exploring the wide variety of textures they can create with acrylic modeling paste on a rigid surface.
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3–8
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Students "paint" with torn paper using a limited number of values found in a grayscale image.
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8–12
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Students investigate dolls and games in history and cultures. This particular lesson challenges students to look into the future and reflect on the past.
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9–12
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Studying the rich history of maskmaking in Africa is a perfect way for students to experience
the relationship between the process of creating a piece of art, and appreciating the
significance it carries.
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5–12
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This project gives students an opportunity to enjoy creating a random
organic form with color and transparency similar to real glass.
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8–12
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Students create a figure while interpreting a culture's economic and social development.
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9–12
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Students experiment with slab construction,
using self-hardening clays, and learn to extend basic techniques into art.
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9–12
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Repoussé (or Repajado in Spanish cultures) is an ancient form of relief sculpture in which a
design is pressed into a sheet of metal to create a 3-dimensional surface.
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5–12
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Students are eager to develop artwork unique in terms of creating personnal
interpretation of aesthetics. This metal box project stresses the effective use of
organizational principals.
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9–12
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Chinese Cloisonne involves a 5-step process of 1) creating and preparing a base 2) soldering copper filligree to it 3) filling with enamel 4) firing 5) finishing. This simplified method follows the same steps, only with safer, easier materials for the classroom.
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7–12
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Experience an archeological dig, right in your own classroom! Students create fossils the way that nature does - by making impressions and filling them.
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K–8
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Adaptable for almost any age level, the basis for this lesson is very simple: define a space and fill it with a repetition of color, line and shape to make what we define as a Pattern.
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3–8
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This simple lesson plan encourages students to create patterns by overlapping and defining lines on a canvas panel, and add dimension by incorporating more canvases or objects.
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K–12
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Part Salvidor Dali and part "Shrinky Dinks," this project compels students to reach beyond a traditional, flat painting and feeds their natural hunger for artistic experimentation.
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7–12
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Early experiment with construction of slab clay techniques. An excellent introduction to the use of materials in a responsible manner.
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K–5
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The expressive qualities of clay are perfect for creating many different types of face masks, from Mardi Gras glitter to Japanese Kabuki to African ceremonial masks.
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K–5
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A very easy mosaic project that is enjoyable for all ages. Even very young children will enjoy pressing objects into the moist clay.
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K–5
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos.
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3–8
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Personal flags are expressions of a student's own life in symbols and serve as a link between the student and his or her environment.
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3–8
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Button art is an inexpensive, creative project that's easy to do with a group, and produces great results.
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K–12
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Through building a clay box sarcophagus, students develop skills to transfer historical objects into an art form,
and discover the application of basic slab formation to a specific form.
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5–8
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Create a changeable block puzzle based upon a vintage game. The result is fun and function, a brain teaser. Critical thinking and math skills must be applied.
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5–12
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Shoes are used to exemplify a very unconventional medium as a classroom exercise in oil painting, and can also be traced in historical terms.
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5–12
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This basket project is whimsical and free-form, using wire and colorful "snakes" that move randomly throughout the piece.
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5–12
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This lesson can be linked with Southwest culture studies and the students can imitate the symbols used by Native American tribes or students can be challenged to come up with their own word pictures.
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K–5
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The ancient Japanese tradition of textile painting known as Shibori entails many techniques and processes including the gathering, wrapping and binding methods that we call "tie-dye" today.
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6–12
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Wall pockets have a long history as decorative and functional items. They have been used for years to hold flowers, perfumes and light sources.
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9–12
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Students create a freestanding 3-dimensional sculpture using wire and modeled "clay" pieces.
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K–8
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