Students will apply fourth grade concepts of equivalent fractions, decimals, and symmetry to create artwork. Once all students have created their masterpieces, they will have a conversation to compare and contrast the various pieces.  Through teacher questioning, this conversation will lead to a deeper understanding of equivalent fractions and decimal fractions.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson uses contour line drawings by using kinetic energy (by moving around on the floor while they trace) and social energy (by interacting with the student they are drawing on the floor).

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Science created this resource as part of an online workshop series, but you are welcome to use or modify it for your classroom. It includes a video and written directions for creating nature journals and tips for incorporating them into your classroom. For information on taking any the Nature Neighborhood online workshops for CEUs or EE credit, visit: https://naturalsciences.org/learn/educators/online-workshops.

Students will look up the website "Around the World in 80 Hats" (https://visual.ly/community/infographic/travel/around-world-80-hats) on the internet, spending time looking at the designs and fabrics of the varied hats. Students talk with one another, naming their favorite hats, and telling why they chose the hat. Students will draw two hats, a familiar hat and a creative hat. Students will select one of the two hats to add to their chalk pastel self-portrait.

Students will recognize the utility of mathematics in art.  They will apply Leonardo Da Vinci’s rules of proportion for the human body and will use these rules to compose self-portraits.  In order to determine the measurements of specific body parts, students will use multiple strategies, such as multiplying whole numbers by fractional parts.  This activity also allows students to make conversions between measurements, connections between linear measurement and fractions, and see the relationship between multiplication of a fraction and division by a whole number.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Piccassohead is a digital tool that allows users to create their own masterpieces using famous features drawn by Picasso. Use as a tool for exploration, creation, collaborative work, and application of prior knowledge. Imitate the artistic style of a Spanish painter.

Students will understand the difference between a sculpture and a drawing or painting, understand the meaning of the word silhouette and will create a simple silhouette of any animal or object they choose and use that drawing to create a sculpture piece which is mounted to a wooden base.

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.