Students will be able to discuss the growth of suburban development in the United States after World War II; write a persuasive essay about suburban development in California; and design a plan for a utopian and environmentally-friendly housing development.

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 learn new vocabulary and practice using it by looking at and describing various works of art, including paintings, drawings, art objects, and photographs.

Students will practice using vocabulary related to people and leisure. Students will be challenged to infer what leisure activities individuals are doing based on such clues as their pose.

Students will practice using vocabulary related to people and workStudents are challenged to infer what job individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with a room and objects in the room.

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 build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about still life in a painting. Activities emphasize prepositions of location—through discussions about objects depicted in the featured work of art.

Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about decorative arts.

Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about different media (painting and photography).

In this lesson students explore both the passion that inspired Picasso to take political action and the thought process behind the work. Students will reflect on their own decision making process when they feel compelled to take public action. This lesson will lead students to investigate the following Life-Long Learning Question: How does passion inspire public action?

This 6-E lesson introduces the use of nonfiction materials from the library with a maker component. Students willuse critical thinking skills,examine nonfiction materials,draw diagrams,make models,ask questions of others,and explain their work. 

Students will determine the central message, lesson, or moral of “The Stone Cutter”.  Students will recount key details of the text in a sequenced order and explain how those key details communicate the author’s message through a class discussion. Students will read a text independently and demonstrate their understanding by designing motivational posters that include the central message, lesson, or moral (life lesson) of the text. Students will speak clearly and in complete sentences at an understandable pace when using recounting to share relevant details of the text. Students will also illustrate the moral of The Lion and The Mouse.

This article contains exercises for Art students who wish to produce contour line drawings, cross contour drawings, blind drawings and other types of line drawings. It is a teaching aid for high school Art students and includes classroom activities, a free downloadable PDF worksheet and inspirational artist drawings.

When we first picked up a pen or pencil and started making marks on paper, we began with line. Whether self-taught, through trial and error, or guided by others, we learned how line defines form, creates structure, divides a frame, traces contour, creates tonal variation (cross-hatching, for example) and leads the eye from one part of a work to another. Initially a mechanism for getting outlines onto paper – identifying edges – we begin to applaud lines for their own merit: celebrate their presence...whether a quiet flick of charcoal on paper or a streak of graphite.

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.

Students explore nineteenth-century life in the White Mountains of New Hampshire through a tale of a family who lived there by analyzing a painting by Thomas Cole and reading a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. They then write a comparative essay and complete a mathematics worksheet to enhance their perception of American life in the nineteenth century.

Students identify clues and adjectives to describe Judith Leyster's personality and then develop and refine her characterizations through poetry writing. Using Leyster's monogram as their inspiration, they then shift the focus to themselves by creating their own monogram and then writing an autobiographical, reflective poem. Included in this resource is a downloadable poem worksheet, gallery exhibition feature, short audio tour about the featured work, and high resolution image.

Students will discuss the style and function of an 18th-century compound microscope and its case and then design their own modern scientific or technological instrument. Students should be able to discuss and analyze the elements and principles of design as seen in the Compound Microscope and Case; discuss and compare the design of the microscope to the design of modern scientific or technological devices; and apply the elements and principles of design to the creation of their own modern scientific or technological device.