Carrye
Campbell
SLM 521
Spring 2005
Lesson Plans
The following are a few of the absolute
best Web sites for finding visual art-related lesson plans. Locating sites with
lessons that encourage perceiving & responding, a historical emphasis,
creativity, and criticism, rather than just being crafty, can be stressful.
Many of these sites feature lessons that are based on educational standards
and/or incorporate interdisciplinary curricula. Others simply offer fun and creative
ideas for teachers to use in their own lesson planning.
As the name eludes, this site is incredible! Here you will find
an amazing variety of high-quality lessons for PreK-12, grouped by grade level.
I am impressed that so many of the lessons are designed around a master artist
and incorporate an art movement or historical era. The site also offers lessons
for substitutes, art history games, and art free-time activities. 4/1/05
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.html
Written by art teachers across the country, this Web site features
nearly 200 excellent visual art lessons, many of which that are
standards-based. Most of the K-12 lessons on Teachers.Net are very detailed,
including each step of the lesson from warm-up to evaluation, rather than just
the procedures. My only suggestion would be for the site to include images of
successful student works instead of all text. 4/1/05
http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=art
The Educatoršs Reference Desk – art
lessons
Formerly located at AskEric.com, this K-12 federally funded site has teacher created and tested
lessons for: architecture, art history, computers in art, process skills, as
well as the visual arts. The site does not offer as many lessons as many other
sites because their selection criteria are very strict. As a result, the
lessons that make the cut are thorough and well-written. Each lesson includes
author, date, grade level, subjects, description, goals, objectives, materials,
procedure, and assessment. 4/1/05
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Arts
KinderArt offers many K-12 lessons in areas such as: Art
history, Drawing, Painting/printmaking, Sculpture, and Multicultural art. In
addition, KinderArt provides art lesson ideas for special learners. The
Cross-curricular art section could be very helpful to all teachers, as well
as the area featuring bulletin board ideas. 4/1/05
http://www.kinderart.com/
ArtsEdge– the National Arts and Education
Network
ARTSEDGE offers standards-based,
teacher tested lessons for design arts, performing arts, and visual arts as
well as lessons with the arts integrated into other subjects such as ESL,
foreign languages, mathematics, physical education, science, and social
studies. You can search hundreds of K-12 lessons by grade and by lesson title.
Each lesson includes length, grade, related subject areas, overview, equipment,
standards, instructional plan and strategies, assessment, resources, and
author. 4/1/05
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/les.cfm?subjectId=VAR&otherSubjectId=&gradeBandId=&x=14&y=8&showDescriptions=true&sortColumn=
Crayola.com features a wealth of
good PreK-12 art lessons from teachers across the country. Though the materials
lists call for all kinds of Crayola products, various other media could easily
be substituted. The lesson plans are searchable by: Media - a huge list, Curriculum, Grade, Timeframe, and Theme - also a very
long list. The site also includes lessons
for students with special needs. 4/1/05
http://www.crayola.com/educators/lessons/index.cfm
Teach Art -
Sanford
This site provides teacher tested
K-8 lessons from the Sanford Company. Though the site lacks quantity of
lessons, it makes up for it in quality. Most of the lessons are based on
National art standards and are in printer-friendly PDF format. Another nice
feature is that most of the lessons include teacher resources such as specific
books, Web sites, and images required for optimum results. 4/1/05
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/teach/teach.html
The Cyber Sketchbook and Digital
Drawing-board
An exciting site with lessons
geared for grades 7-12. The emphasis is on computer generated graphics and
animation, but the author continues to focus on the traditional study for
drawing, painting and sculpture. Lessons in four categories: Elements of
Design, Principles of Design, Art History and Appreciation, Teaching Art with
Technology. 4/1/05
http://www.vvm.com/%7Etgibbons/Templates/lessons.htm