Lesson Plans
Silver Tape Lesson Plan
This covers a one-day lesson plan where 2nd students create fashion designs from templates using reflective material.
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2d Taxidermy Lesson Plan
This covers a three day high school drawing lesson where students would test their ability to convey specific moods and emotions and record their results.
Practicum - Nontraditional Material Lesson Plan
This lesson plan details a five day lesson where students will create sculpture that interacts with a two-dimensional painting. Materials such as dinner plates, clay, wire, and recycled material are used to create uniquely abstracted shapes and compositions.
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Children's Art Club - Portrait Lesson Plan
This lesson plan details a one-day lesson on portrait/figure drawing for young students. There is a focus on the work of Kehinde Wiley, and how to create a portrait that celebrates someone important to you.
Visual Culture Lesson Plan
In this lesson on visual culture, students begin to take a second look at the advertisements they see invading their digital lives. Here, we begin to learn tools to decode what is being presented, how marketers try to get our attention, and how we can make choices in how this affects our life.
Multiculturalism Lesson Plan
This lesson focusses on the universal human need for art, and focusses on patterns that every prehistoric culture used in their art-making. Here, we ask the question, if we could only make one drawing to show the world to the people of ten-thousand years from now, what would we want to draw?
Aesthetics Lesson Plan
This aesthetics introduces the idea of art existing in unexpected places by use of examining buildings, houses, and the school itself.
Middle School Lesson Plan - 2020
This drawing lesson incorporates reading and analysis of age appropriate graphic novels that showcase diversity and unique life experiences. The intent is to allow the class to explore the comic medium while also getting to learn new things about each-other.
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High School Lesson Plan - 2020
This drawing lesson focusses on the importance of negative space, trains the eye to break down a composition, and brings some classic works of art to serve as examples.
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DBAE Lesson Plans - 2020
Lesson Plan task charts for high school, middle school, and elementary school lessons.