Lesson Plans

This lesson uses eye popping black and white to create a community portrait filled with architectural detail inspired by

Explore the sights of New York City by creating a storyboard and characters from a favorite book.

Let's find out how we know our shapes!

Everyone collects something. And like the characters in “A Three Hat Day” by Laura Geringer, our collections give us com

Create a mobile that will have your imagination spinning with concentric squares, color exploration, and dimension.

It’s a herd! It’s a flock! It’s... collective nouns! Explore and illustrate these nouns that indicate a specific collect

Combine movement into active learning and art making in this lesson. Students learn and express concepts in radial symm

Have your students mastered Simon Says; Red Light, Green Light; and Mother, May I? If so, try out this challenge!

What are asteroids? Learn more about these remnants from our solar system’s formation.

Discover animal habitats under sidewalks, tree roots, at the beach, or near ponds. Fascinating creatures can be found al

Visualize a journey that incorporates no technology other than one’s own feet. Students re-imagine the passage of North

Investigate and experience the fun of M. C. Escher’s tessellating shapes. Students create their own tessellating shapes

Transfer your knowledge of the color wheel to a color cube!

Storytelling meets math when you write stories in which your hero is a magical, math-ical dragon!

Confront those scary fears of bumps in the night with this lesson. Students draw parts of monsters and reassemble in a c

Teens explore symbolism and identity as they create color filled silhouettes that visually depict a term and image to de

Cook up some fun by converting common recipe measurements, like tablespoons and cups. Record the conversions on a colorf

Explore color mixing and exaggerated brushstrokes while painting a landscape like a Post-Impressionist!

Polka dots with stripes…peanut butter burritos…that’s just the beginning of “mismatches” for delightfully diverse Mariso

Create a multi-media weaving that pops with texture and is crowned with a majestic bird drawing.

Create a fitting tribute to explorers of the high seas. Design tiny sailing ships in a recycled plastic bottle.

"Cool Penguins" by Jeff Bauer is the inspiration for students' original artwork focused on the lives of penguins living

Students create a snowy owl puppet to fly through the night.

How did you remember that? Students create original color memory games to assist with developing fine motor skills and v