1. Creating objects
(View Complete Item Description)Before building characters you need to define individual shapes using objects.
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All resources in art ED4U
2. Light reflection
(View Complete Item Description)Let's look more closely at how light behaves when it strikes an object. We'll cover diffuse and specular surface responses.
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SEL, Art & Mood and Color
(View Complete Item Description)This resource was created by Lana Maas, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.
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Impressionist Art and Artists
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson was actually created as a resource to help train on how to use the new Open Author application. There is a PDF and video that goes along with this sample lesson.
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Digital Drawing for Beginners
(View Complete Item Description)Step by step how to on creating digital illustrations in Photoshop
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Reframing Art History
(View Complete Item Description)Reframing Art History, an open-access multimedia world art history "textbook," gives you a guided journey through the living, breathing, meaningful side of art history. We’re less concerned with names and dates than with meaning and movement. With chapters developed by a group of more than 40 experts, it showcases art and history from the bottom up.
Material Type: Reading
Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 1
(View Complete Item Description)This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students view ceramic vessels from different time periods and cultures and discuss their meanings, functions, and original contexts. They develop criteria for value and meaning of these objects, and create a timeline to situate the objects in history.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 2
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students are tested on what they learned about the history of ceramic forms in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 1." They start work on a personal clay vessel that has a specific use or meaning in their contemporary culture, which could be discerned through study by future archeologists and art historians.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 3
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students begin work on a ceramic vessel, which they designed in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 2." They discuss their artistic choices and identify elements derived from historical examples, while considering how artists appropriate ideas from earlier artists.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 4
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students hold a critique session to evaluate the work of their peers using the criteria for value and meaning they developed in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 1."
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Remix
SCULPTURE - PLASTIC ARTS LESSON
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Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive
Turning Uncle Tom's Cabin upside down, Alison Saar's Topsy and the Golden Fleece
(View Complete Item Description)Alison Saar, Topsy and the Golden Fleece, 2017, wood, tar, steel, ceiling tin, wire, acrylic paint and gold leaf, 35-1/2 x 11-1/2 x-8 1/2 inches (Toledo Museum of Art, ©Alison Saar) speakers: Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
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The Whimsy Project
(View Complete Item Description)A high school level, school-wide, cross-curricular PBL project that allows students to maximize their creative thinking and problem solving skills as they connect academic content to real-world applications, in a fun and whimsical way!
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How to Analyze and Talk About Art.
(View Complete Item Description)This is a 2-hour lesson plan designed for elementary students to introduce them to the basics of art critique, using digital tools and collaborative activities. It follows a STEAM approach and focuses on developing vocabulary and communicative competences (writing, speaking, listening, and reading).
Material Type: Full Course, Game, Interactive, Lesson
Plastic World (Art for the Earth #3)
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students view images of plastic pollution around the world, watch a video on plastic pollution, and analyze artwork about plastic pollution. Step 1 - Inquire: Students complete a KWL on plastic pollution and view six images of plastic pollution around the world. Step 2 - Investigate: Students watch a video on plastic pollution and discuss. Step 3 - Inspire: Students analyze artwork with a partner and then choose one artwork to analyze using the art critique star.
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