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Part of Google Arts & Culture, allowing students to explore iconic locations in 3D.
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- Social Studies
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- 04/01/2019
Part of Google Arts & Culture, allowing students to explore iconic locations in 3D.
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Make a Matisse art project by cutting out lots of colorful organic shapes and then layering them to make an interesting collage.
This activity, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and the stories of Raymond Carver, challenges students to get inside contemporary life and characters through the creation of monologues.
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This website provides step-by-step instructions for creating a Painted Pears Still Life project.
These 5 essential chalk pastel techniques for beginners will set kids up for pastel success!
These chalk pastel art ideas are easy and fun for kids of all ages! Chalk pastel project links included: sunflowers, Kandinsky art, galaxy art, shooting stars, hearts, cherry blossoms, tulips, bunnies, shamrocks, sunset, jellyfish, Canada Day, fall leaf, pumpkin, bat, snow globe, fireworks, hot chocolate, and a Christmas tree.
This is a pastel project using a glue resist method. The end result is beautiful!
Oil pastels are awesome! How to blend with oil pastels is really easy, after understanding these two simple steps (from Art Hub for Kids). Written instructions with visuals are included, along with an instructional video.
In this simple lesson, students learn a new "blending" technique for oil pastels.
This lesson focuses on a family depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and families. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using possessive adjectives. Students are challenged to infer what the relationships are between figures depicted and what individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.
This lesson focuses on people at work depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and work. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using job-related vocabulary and adjectives to describe feelings. Students are challenged to infer what job individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.
In this art history video discussion Beth Harris and Steven Zucker look at Sir Peter Paul Rubens' "The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus," 1617-18, oil on canvas. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Here's a great resource outlining 11 easy photography projects (even) kids can do.
No matter your age, if you are looking to become a better photographer, you can use these projects for practice. Each one will give you the opportunity to look at things differently and use your camera to capture specific images.
This article provides seven different photography explorations to do with children.
After some basic photography tips, allocate students a letter of the alphabet. Their task is to find objects that could represent that letter.
In this lesson, students move through the photography basics as they work towards having 12 great photos to make a 12-month calendar.