Lesson Plans

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Over 60 teacher-designed lesson plans for art.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: Adult Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: Yes

Units

Representations of American Culture, 1760-1960: Art and Literature
Collection of 10 units of study from the Yale-New Haven Teacher Institute.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

Art as Evidence: The Interpretation of Objects
Collection of 10 units of study from the Yale-New Haven Teacher Institute.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

Art and Identity in Mexico, from the Olmec to Modern Times
Collection of 10 units of study from the Yale-New Haven Teacher Institute.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

Art and Artifacts: the Cultural Meaning of Objects
Collection of 10 units of study from the Yale-New Haven Teacher Institute.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

The Family in Art and Material Culture
Collection of 10 units of study from the Yale-New Haven Teacher Institute.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

Elements of Architecture
Collection of 13 units of study from the Yale-New Haven Teacher Institute.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

Japan: Images of a People
Collection of three lesson plans for grades 4-6 from the Smithsonian Institution's  Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Students learn about Japan, learning how to look at paintings, and make paper screens that resemble Japanese screens.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

Artists Who Loved the Land
In this collection of three lessons from the Smithsonian Institution's  Freer Gallery of Art, students explore the way that Americans felt about their growing nation during the period of westward expansion until the end of the nineteenth century. They learn about some basic principles of landscape painting through a study of the landscapes of George Catlin, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, and Winslow Homer.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

Art, Artifacts, and Material Culture
Collection of 7 units of study from the Yale-New Haven Teacher Institute.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No

Art Magazine Unit
Students create their own individual art magazines based on a particular area in the arts, for example, a modern art magazine, print magazine, or an Impressionist magazine
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

WebQuests

Jacob Lawrence Webquests
This collection of 21 webquests from the Whitney Museum of American Art uses the works of Jacob Lawrence to focus on the broad themes of discrimination, education, labor, self, struggle, transition, education, injustice, family and community, North/South, and working women.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Varies Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Art Exhibit
In this 6-9th grade webquest, students are a members of an elite group of museum curators for a traveling art exhibit who must research and acquire the artworks to display in their show.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Mural-venture
In this webquest students learn about the politics, history, and culture of Nicaragua by studying its murals.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle/High School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Piet Mondrian
In this high school webquest students create a museum exhibit of Mondrian's works.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

In Search of Vincent van Gogh
In this fifth grade webquest students work in groups of three to explore the life and works of van Gogh.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary/Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

A Future in the Arts
In this high school webquest students complete all of the components of college application in the field of fine arts.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Who Determines the Value of Art?
In this middle school webquest students select four works art for a hometown museum. They must describe the works, the price and budget, and relevance to the community.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Masterpiece Unscramble
It is the year 2030. Famous works of art have been disappearing from collections around the world for the past 27 years without a trace. Students play the role of insurance investigators. A wealthy art lover, Constance Brushwork, has recently passed away and among her papers was found a poster that seems to be a montage of the missing artworks.  Students must examine the montage and identify the original works in the montage.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

They Drew Fire
Students use the artwork of D-Day combat artists to create a first-person narrative for a fictional participant in D-Day.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

A Knight's Tour
In this 10th grade webquest, students are part of a team of art experts traveling to various elementary schools across the country, with the traveling Medieval art show, A Knight's Tour. As a team taking on the roles of a Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, and Armor experts, students research and select the various pieces that they feel clearly reflect the Medieval period.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Restoring The Nike
In this high school webquest student teams must present a finished sketch or 3-D model of how they believe the Nike looked with its head, arms, foot, and any other adornments installed at the Monument of Nike.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

The Art Historian
In this high school webquest students research an art movement.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No