Whether specialising in Painting, Graphic Design, Photography, textiles or Sculpture, most high school Art students begin by selecting a topic for their Coursework or Examination project. One of the most crucial decisions an IGCSE, GCSE or A Level Art student has to make is what subject or theme they will spend the year exploring. It is a decision that many find difficult, whether due to a lack of inspiration, an inability to discern between two or more possible ideas or a general misunderstanding about the type of topic that is appropriate. This resource contains a step-by-step guide that students can use to brainstorm, evaluate and select (in conjunction with advice from their teacher) an outstanding topic for their high school Art project.

Students will create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras. They compare and contrast a nineteenth-century image, photographs taken with a pinhole camera, and pictures created with a digital camera or camera phone.

Students will look at Oldenburg's "Late Submission to the Chicago Tribune Architectural Competition of 1922: Clothespin" and discuss scale, function, and form. Students will consider Oldenburg's reimagining of every day objects into monumental works of art. Students will then create their own "late submissions" for the world's most beautiful office building.

Students will consider the work of Keith Haring in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a framework for studying any artist and era. Students research historically and culturally significant events as a potential means to understand artists and their works.

Students will look at Egon Schile's "Self-Portrait: Pulling Down an Eyelid, 1910" noting use of color and decorative elements, clothing, facial and body language and emotion. Students will also consider Schiele's use of line and his contrasting blocks of color. Students will compare his work to that of his mentor, Gustav Klimt. Working in groups, students will construct and act out a dialogue between artist and subject based on a Schiele drawing. Students will engage in two continuous drawing activities; two contour drawing activities; and create a digital self-portrait experimenting with contortion, asymmetry, and/or disproportionate elements.

Students will create a timeline outlining various groups' struggles for equal opportunity and create a 30-second radio or video public service announcement (PSA).

Students will compare and contrast works of art; learn observational techniques; become familiar with buildings in their community; learn the terms foreground, middle ground, and background, as well as terms for describing objects such as line, color, shape, form, and pattern.

Students will embrace and become a person from their researched country. They will create a video production about where they are from in a poem outline to help guide the listeners into understanding the culture of their country. These videos will be presented to the class to see what different cultures are around the world. Students will write down facts they did not know or found interesting about all of the different countries researched in the class. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari 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 each be exploring a different country and culture from around the world. In having students explore a country, they will be asked to become an expert. With being an expert about their country, students will be creating a traveling brochure. This traveling brochure will discover different aspects about their country. In general, students will research their country's population, culture, history, transportation, fashion, art, weather, food, religion, etc. The brochure will help show their understanding of their country and everything they have learned, plus more. Students will present their findings and share their knowledge to their peers every step of the unit. This lesson was developed by Danielle Gaimari 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.

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Students will be introduced to one new medium and one new technique: bronze sculpture and lithography; consider the ways in which popular culture is recorded or disseminated in society; consider the ways in which art and popular culture may be integrated in advertising.

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 consider the term conceptual art and the role of math - geometry, fractions, permutations - in producing this art. They will first create a conceptual art piece by following a set of Sol LeWitt's instructions. Then, they will design two conceptual art plans using math concepts - one in two-dimensions, another in three - for a student-partner to follow.

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 examine the phenomenon of popular culture and the influences that led to the advent of graphic design.

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.