In this lesson, students examine Henry Matisse's artwork, making note of how his art changed throughout his career. Students will then work collaboratively to either replicate a Matisse artwork or create an original one in his style.

Students will take on a mystery, Sherlock Holmes style, to uncover the secrets, history, and deeper meanings of Moyo Ogundipe's painting Soliloquy: Life's Fragile Fictions.

Students will be able to: explain why Ogundipe used particular colors, patterns, and images for his painting; discuss what the snakes and birds symbolize in the picture; and express in their own words at least three reasons the different elements of the painting are a treasure.

Students will collaborate in groups to plan and present a puppet show using their hand puppets and illustrated animal booklets. They will share what they have learned about animals around the globe with their classmates through these puppets and illustrated booklets. Groups will be assigned by the teacher according to their animals' regions/habitats of the world. This lesson will use all the information learned and products created during this unit called "Learning About Animals Around the Globe". This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will use their notes, sketches, and paper hand puppet from the previous lessons in this unit to write and illustrate a booklet about their animal and the global region where it lives/lived.  Students will understand the correlation between art and literacy as they create a short booklet about their animal and its habitat. Students will prepare to share these short stories with their peers in the form of a collaborative puppet show when they have completed their illustrated booklets. This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

This lesson is to introduce students to the art of mixed media through the introduction of an illustrated story about overcoming personal adversity.

Students will learn and apply the concepts of visual stimulus and watercolor resist as they draw and paint organic shapes they have photographed while on a nature walk. Students will incorporate their understanding of science skills in applying their knowledge of plant parts their original creations.

The NC Kids' Exploration Journals are a fun educational tool to help youth explore their communities and natural surroundings! Each journal contains: 18 multidisciplinary activities with guided prompts, 6 lined journal pages for recording observations and reflections, and 4 blank pages for individual creativity.

The digital versions of the journal are designed to be printed out for students either as individual activities or in its entirety so that they can explore their school yard, local park, or own backyard. Though designed for 1st - 5th-graders, older audiences may enjoy them too! They are also available in both English and Spanish languages.

While supplies last, hard copies of the journals are currently available for free to teachers by contacting karen.ipock@ncdcr.gov.

Students will brainstorm a list of adjectives to describe two early photographs called "cyanotypes." Next they will create their own cyanotype photograph. Students will then write original poetry using the previous list of adjectives to describe their own nature-inspired cyanotype photograph.

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.