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- The Grouchy Ladybug
- Students will learn the meaning of illustration, will be introduced to a famous illustrator and will create an illustration based on the style of this particular artist.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education)
- By Jean Caldwell.
- Color mixing
- Students are introduced to the basic steps in mixing secondary colors from primary colors of paint.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)
- By Gwen Auman.
- Colorful fruit bowl
- Students learn color theory by exploring color mixing. Students will use overlapping to show simple perspective in their picture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)
- By Marilyn Carter.
- Describing Japanese screens and scrolls through images
- The second part of a larger unit on talking and writing about, as well as creating, Japanese screen and scroll paintings. The purpose of this unit plan is to introduce descriptive aspects of art criticism, while teaching the art and culture of Japan. Students create illustrations of classmates' descriptions of Japanese screens or scrolls.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education)
- By Michelle Harrell.
- Faces tell feelings - Part 6 - Emotions collage
- Students will create a collage using magazine photos and words printed in computer lab to express a particular emotion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Jan Kimosh.
- How do I express what I believe? - Part 2
- This is the second in a three-part lesson series seeking to examine belief systems and how they impact culture in the United States. This lesson, "How do I express what I believe?" requires 3 sessions at 40 minutes each to complete. The lesson series also seeks to let students examine their own personal belief system. In this lesson, the student will learn about the American tradition of the Face Jug/Pot and how it is used to express belief. The student will also create a Face Jug/Pot to express his/her belief, and this pot will be used in the third lesson entitled. "How do I present what I believe?"
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Donna Pumphrey.
- How do pumpkins grow?: Book project
- This is an integrated science and language arts lesson plan. Students will create individual books that illustrate how pumpkins grow.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science)
- By Marty Britt.
- In the spirit of... (museum post-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In the post-visit lesson, students will create plaster masks and write a brief description.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education)
- By Tamela Davis.
- Mixing colors with Little Blue and Little Yellow
- This is an integrated lesson based on a French book entitled Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni. Within the lesson, students will experiment with various colors to create new colors and eventually write their own version of this story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science)
- By Lisa Tartaglia.
- Painted cylindrical sculptures
- Students will experiment painting a variety of lines as directed in addition to inventing their own on 12" x 18" paper. Students will also glue pre-cut paper strips onto their sculptures experimenting with a variety of paper sculpture techniques such as bending, folding and curling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Rose Szabo.
- Sea inventory
- In this lesson students will create a beach mural with sand, shells, and blue and white finger paints. They will count objects added to the mural as they go along.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Dinah Jackson.
- Seasonal farm landscapes
- Students will have visited the farm landscape four times throughout the year, recording their observations during four seasons. The drawings will incorporate their knowledge of farms from our visits, their exposure to the seasonal landscapes of Grant Wood and Claude Monet, and their knowledge of landscape art and its elements of color and perspective developed at the Museum. The final project will be individual student books containing their landscape drawings and text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education)
- By Jamie Barnhill.
