Students will be able to view and discuss five different artworks (drawings and paintings created in late-1800s France) in terms of what art can tell them about vocations, social conventions, history, style, science, politics, economics, and creativity; create imaginary narratives about how the subjects came to be painted by the artist; create imaginary narratives about what the artists' private lives might have been like in Europe in the 1880s and 1890s by using historical references; learn how to organize information quickly in a visual manner by using various Bubble Maps©; conduct research to make study sketches (examples of text or graphic backgrounds); create an original work of art; and write a short essay in which they address the question: What can art tell us about ourselves?

Students will become familiar with the term "landscape" and will revisit the terms "foreground," "middle ground," and "background." Students will consider how an artist's painting technique impacts a viewer's interpretation of a painting.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and how people react to the sea.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and time of day.

Students will explore artists' choices of nontraditional art materials; explore how artists use different materials to engage space and will consider the role of the viewer in that process.

Students will be introduced to performance art and will consider its relationship to more traditional forms of visual art, such as painting and sculpture; consider the different ways in which performance art is documented; explore artists' construction of identities in performance and their adoption of signature materials and props.

In these lessons, students will explore the intersection of math and art in the works of two artists and one architect for whom mathematical concepts (lines, angles, two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional polyhedra, fractions, ratios, and permutations) and geometric forms were fundamental.

Students will consider gesture in drawings; consider alternative materials and processes artists can use to create drawings; consider the role of chance in the creation of drawings.

In this lesson, students reflect on the social relevance of right-brain and left-brain thinking. Then, they practice the science skills of observation and drawing using a right-brain dominant approach and reflect on whether and how the different perspective helped them to learn the material.

Students will:
1. Respond to a logical, systematic and verbal drawing prompt.
2. Learn about the differences between brain hemispheres and the current emphasis on the value of creativity and imagination by reading and discussing the article "Let Computers Compute. It’s the Age of the Right Brain."
3. Employ drawing techniques to engage the right hemisphere of the brain and then apply these techniques to a science topic.
4. Compare two self-created drawings and reflect on the experience of approaching the topic from two perspectives, linear/logical and spatial/nonverbal/holistic.

Students will be able to use English–language vocabulary to describe what they see in a work of art; create a collage that communicates their experience of the urban environment; and write about their collage, articulating what they were trying to express through visual images using English–language vocabulary.

Students will become familiar with the industrial developments of the twentieth century and how they affected architecture and society; explore the development of urban environments; compare and contrast graphics and drawings; create works of art that document their neighborhoods from their own perspectives; learn the terms utopian and conceptual.

Students will examine sixteen paintings by George Baselitz. Students will describe the works and discuss details, the reasoning and meaning behind painting upside down, techniques and methods required to work in this manner, and the process behind the series. Students will also analyze the titles and subtitles Baselitz used and the meaning or implications associated with each. Students will compose a dialogue between two characters in the paintings and will experiment with painting with hands and feet in the style of Baselitz.

Students will view and discuss Cy Twombly's "Nine Discourses on Commodus", research the Roman Emperor Commodus, investigate Twombly's process and technique, and consider the difference between works in a "series" created as "one in a sequence" rather than "stand alones". Students will also discuss how music may inspire visual arts; make paintings based on phrases of poetry; and debate the artistic value of graffiti.

This free website provides more than 600 adaptable lesson plans written by teachers in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum for more than 130 objects from the museums world-class art collection. Lesson plans and resources focus on inspiring students to think and problem-solve creatively. Organized in an easy way so that teachers can pick the topic they would like to explore or enhance, then use works of art to teach that subject.

High resolution images are included. Museum visits are not necessary to implement lesson plans. Includes professional and student development tools such as teacher workshops and webinars, virtual classroom courses, career videos, educator blogs and creativity tools. Easy for teachers in language arts, social studies and visual arts to provide a curriculum rooted in the arts while also meeting 21st Century Skills.

Students will view and discuss Waking, 1984 by Gilbert and George. Working in pairs, students will gather images from newspapers and magazines depicting youth culture and style. Students will then combine the images collected by the class and create a collage showing how they think youth should be depicted by the media. Alternatively, students could create a digital collage by taking pictures of themselves and their peers. Have students discuss how their image selections reflect or represent their generation.

Students will be able to research the history of individual labor unions and interview representatives about benefits and challenges; document in a photographer's journal the process of preparing for and participating in a photography assignment; formally analyze artworks in preparation for a photography assignment; and create an original photograph of a worker that uses leading lines to create emphasis.

Students will watch and discuss an excerpt from Ono's "Cut Piece" 1964. Students will also record sounds to create audible poems, produce a school-wide sound-sculpture project, and create short videos in response to a series of prompts.

Students will learn about conceptual art, minimalist sculpture, haiku, and readymades through analysis of Yoko Ono's 1966 work "Apple". Students will participate in a number of activities revolving around the theme of "Experiencing the School in a Differnet Way". Activities include writing haiku, producing a collaborative mural project, create a collaborative mixed-media interpretation of one aspect of the school, and conduct a survey of the positive and negative aspects of the school with the goal of promoting positive change.