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Lesson Plans
ArtsEdge 
This site from the Kennedy Center for the Arts has over 300 cross-curriculum standards- lesson plans and activities that explore the arts as well as an idea exchange and web links. You will also find Mini-sites - multidisciplinary, self-contained explorations of arts-related themes or subjects like African Odyssey Interactive, Drop Me Off in Harlem, and Capturing Nureyev: Jamie Wyeth Paints the Dancer.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: Adult Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: Yes
ArtsEdNet
This site from the Getty Institute for the Arts has 50 lesson plans, and teaching ideas and tips. You will also find A Guide for Learning and Teaching in Art, an image gallery with over 100 works of art, and an art discussion group.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: Adult Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: Yes
KinderArt
Art education page with hundreds of online lessons designed especially for teachers, parents and kids. A new lesson is added weekly. You can also submit lessons.
Intended Audience: Teachers/Parents Reading Level: Adult Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: No
Art Education Page for K12
Directory of art resources for the K-12 teacher.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: Adult Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: Yes
Art Takes Time
Collection of lesson plans organized in a chronological or timeline approach to art history designed to help students will see how art has changed through the years and learn about the artists of that period and culture.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: Adult Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: No
Art Teacher on the Net
Projects, ideas and lots more.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: Adult Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: No
Ask Eric
Over 60 teacher-designed lesson plans for art.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: Adult Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: Yes
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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
Landscape Painting: Artists Who Loved the Land
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
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Collection of art activities and units from grades K-12.
Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: NA Teacher Section: No Searchable: NA
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WebQuests
Whitney Museum of American Art: Jacob Lawrence Webquests
Collection of 21 webquests use 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 and Architecture WebQuests
Collection of eight webquests from Berks County Intermediate Unit in Pennsylvania.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Varies Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Colonial American Art
In this webquest for designed for use in grade five, students research three paintings and compile their research in a brochure that a museum can pass out to museum visitors.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary School Teacher Section: NA Searchable: No
Art Exhibit
In this grade 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
Gallery of Art-i-facts
In this grade 10th grade webquest, students create a proposal for a gallery of art that features non-Western art organized around a single theme.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: High 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
The Anasazi and the Secrets of the Petroglyphs
In this webquest students learn about Anasazi culture and explore their use of petroglyphs.
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 wequest, 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
Impressionism
Students explore the historical and cultural underpinigs of Impressionism and compare and contrast the works of different artists.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Art Smart
In this webquest for grades 4-6, students view art by some artists, respond to it, create a work of art of their own, and respond to artwork by students from their class.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary/Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
The Art of Culture
In this webquest for grades 7-12, students are museum curators and must select art from an array of cultures to be represented in a new global exhibit. Each student selects a culture and then explore examples of the various artforms created by the people of that culture.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle/High School Teacher Section: No 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
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