Students continue learning and researching their country's culture to complete a mandala. In their mandala, they will use the symbols, colors, landmarks, and history of their country's culture to complete a radial balanced mandala. A mandala symbolizes the wholeness and unity of the universe. Students will look at examples of rose glass windows, research hinduism and buddhism culture's to become inspired to create their own take on a mandala representing their own country's culture. 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 learn about their own community by using recyclables to create a class sculpture. They will understand Heidelberg neighborhood and apply their own ideas to construct their ideal community.

In this activity, students will select one person listed from the American Revolutionary War Era whom they will research then create a visual of the person and present knowledge gained about the historical figure to the class.

Students will be introduced to two new mediums: industrial design and photography; consider the ways in which art, architecture, and design affect their everyday life; consider the impact that the creation of public monuments has on a city and its citizens.

Students will learn about design issues including sustainability, safety, and use; explore how architects are using green technologies in today's buildings; investigate how the built environment affects the natural environment; investigate how the natural environment affects the built environment.

Students will explore the design process through photographic documentation and architectural plans and elevations; use primary-source documentation to explore the history of a building; compare and contrast works of architecture and industrial design; become familiar with the work of Mies van der Rohe and the International Style movement; learn the terms plan, elevation, cantilever, ornamentation, and scale.

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 explore the inventions and material innovations that made the construction of skyscrapers possible; become familiar with the roles of architects and engineers; make connections between architecture and history; learn the terms ziggurat and cladding.

Students explore how westward expansion increased the number of jobs available in the nineteenth-century, including being a flatboatman through a painting by George Caleb Bingham. Working in pairs, students write a letter to a classmate from the standpoint of a person moving westward. Then they construct a poem in the guise of Walt Whitman's "Hear America Singing" about a modern-day job.

Students conduct research and imagine themselves in a place other than where they live, then create art based on this imagining. Discovery and discussion about the Rousseau painting Tropical Forest with Monkeys that Rousseau created from his trips to botanical gardens, zoos, and illustrations in books is used to guide this lesson. Students also investigate the macaque monkey to compare to Rousseau's depictions. Included in this resource are links to an online matching game, EPA games and quizzes, science lesson plans and satellite images of environmental change.

This lesson will focus on web page planning, basic design, and layout of uploading images to web pages created by the student. Drawing material (colored paper, pencils, glue scissors) will be available for students wishing to create original artwork to upload.

Students will be able to visually analyze a photographic image; write a headline and a story to accompany an image chosen from a newspaper; and compare what they see in a photojournalistic image to what they read in the story accompanying the image.

Students will be able to describe and analyze techniques artists use to communicate persuasive messages through two-dimensional and three-dimensional images; understand key themes and artistic styles of the Counter-Reformation period in 17th-century Europe; and create a sculpture that conveys a message conceived by a patron.

This article features twenty outstanding sketchbook pages that have been produced by high school Art and Design students from around the world. Exploring topics such as abstract sculpture, figurative sculpture, installation, architectural design and product design, these sketchbook pages illustrate the range of excellent presentation techniques and styles that are possible. It is hoped that these examples will motivate and inspire those who are working on their own Sculpture or 3D Design sketchbook as part of a high school Art or Design project. Enjoy!

Students will create a Seesaw account and engage in a class art critique utilizing Seesaw. During the class critique students will upload a photo of their artwork and comment on two other students' art, analyzing the formal characteristics and which elements/principles of design the artist has used successfully. Individual students will share out their ideas with the rest of the class. Students will also have an ongoing digital art portfolio of their work on Seesaw.

Students share opinions about cultural clues that can be observed in structures and/or edifices. They then investigate sites in their community from an archaeological perspective and prepare annotated sideshows based on their analyses.

Students will learn and apply the basic fundamentals of still life drawing as they create an original composition based on found items in the classroom. They will incorporate language arts concepts such as listening, inferring and summarizing as they listen first to a model story and then complete an original story based on their projects.