Art Lesson Plans

Art Lesson a guide from Marvin Bartel

Portfolio Series for Educators High quality lesson plans in many media. Geared for middle school though high school (and beyond). See also Artists for many more ideas.

Teach-nology: The Web Portal for Educators. Web tools, lesson plans (Art History based), resources, discipline ideas and so much more. Arts and Humanities Lesson Plans - lots to see and do.

Art Teacher Connection Extensive site by Bettie Lake. Encouraging Technology Innovation in Art Education

Arts Connected- Walker Center Themes from the Walker Center.

The Solution Site -- many lessons given for Fine Arts - select (Find a Unit). You can also narrow your search by searching for a grade level and Fine Art. Good site for elementary ideas.

Harcourt School  Art activities for grades 1 through 5.

EDSITEment Links for quality sites and lesson plans for art and culture.

Education World Lesson plans, curriculum information, Web resources -- more!

Georgia Learning Center's Quality Core Curriculum: Do a search by grade level for  Fine Arts - Lesson Plan.

PBS TeacherSource Pull down menu for grade level and topic. Excellent lessons for art at all grade levels. See this article: Teaching with the Brain in Mind by Christopher Taibbi.

KinderArt Lessons - Over 1000 art lesson plans - seasonal units - cross curricular units and more.  See Art on a Thread: Recycled Materials. Nice summary of Printmaking- with recommended artists to cover.

Making Connections  - Learning through technology. Lessons are geared to Louisiana content standards but can be adapted. You will find many interdisciplinary lessons. Go to Search Feature and see Web sites. Web sites are also keyed to standards.

Glencoe Art Online- Home page  Select your text book by state for online actrivities.

Embracing the Child Books for art, music and dance. Lesson plans, activities  and links.

Online Visual Literacy Project What is Visual Literacy? Listen to what Brian Stonehill has to say. Read the information to understand why visual literacy is so important. Study each of the elements. Site created by Pomona College, Claremont, California.

Alphabet of Art This site describes the Alphabet of Art, a notation system for visual design. The alphabet was developed by the late Robert J. McKnight, a sculptor, designer, and theoretician of art.

Davis Publications Lots of idea for lessons. Browse Student Art Gallery - search by grade level or media. Online glossary and brief artist biographies. Textbooks for all grade levels.

Kennedy ARTSEDGE Teaching materials and quality lesson plans. Many good ones for Black History Month.

Children's Services  Pre-School Concept Books

Lesson Plans Utah Museum of Fine Art. Free lessons for teachers and educators -- see the links to the right for examples.

New York Times Fine Arts Lessons (most are interdisciplinary) New York Times Learning Network