This AI Image generator is FREE and:
*Creates great, clean images
*Very easy to use
*Allows you to create in different shapes
*Side panel lets you select options (instead of remembering to type them in your prompt)
*Image watermark makes it clear that images are AI-created (but is very bold)
*Has lots of other AI image tools beyond "text to image" like generative fill, text effects, recoloring and more

(SaskDLC has access to the paid version with no watermark).

Ditch That Textbook Suggests These Activities with AI Images:
💬 Generate images for a comic strip with an AI image generator, then students add speech/thought bubbles in Google Slides or PPT
🗣 Create a "Caption This" activity where students speak for a character in an AI-generated image
📝 Students add AI-generated images about a topic of study to visual notes they're creating
📚 AI generates an image of an alternate ending for a story and students narrate it
📍 Have AI create a map and have students give directions or describe it
✍️ "Reverse caption this": Students write the dialogue and ask AI to create an image for it
❓ What if activity: Students write an alternate story (like the Marvel show, "What if...?") and AI generates an image

The purpose of this lesson is to reveal students’ perceptions about art, what defines art, why people create art. It is a chance to explore the concept of identity through an arts lens.

Curricular Connections
• CR 6.1 – Create personal responses to a variety of arts expressions (e.g., respond to music using poetry, or respond to visual art using music).
• CR 6.2 - Investigate and identify ways that the arts can express ideas about identity.
• CH 6.1 - Investigate how personal, cultural, or regional identity may be reflected in arts expressions.

Assessment
Arts Ed Journal Reflection

Materials
• Large paper
• Markers and crayons (optional)
• White paper
• Smart Board lesson
• Student Handout #1 and #2
• Arts Ed Journal Entry #1 Handout
• Computer with speakers

This is an excellent set of videos for learning about various art topics.

From the YouTube channel description: "The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green. We explore art and art history through the lens of things happening today. Check for new episodes every other Thursday!"

Note: In 2020 it was decided that they would reevaluate and produce videos at a slower pace, with about 6 per year. However, the videos that are posted are very high quality, and helpful for either teaching certain concepts, or for teachers to learn from.

Leading museums share their collections through virtual, augmented and mix reality.

Bringing the arts to life through virtual, augmented and mixed reality, Boulevard is reshaping the landscape of storytelling and revolutionizing the way the world looks at art and culture.

The "Educate" and "Experiences" tabs are a great place to start.

There are full lessons in here under "Educate"!

In this activity, students use various leaves and crayons to create a textured collage. This activity is a wonderful opportunity to explore colour, line, and texture, not to mention the bonus fun of going out and collecting leaves!

In this fun activity, students paint paper "swatches" then cut them out into geometric shapes, creating their own version of Paul Klee's famous creation, Castle and Sun.

In this great process art activity, students create a variety of coloured tissue paper snowflakes. Then, they layer them on a large piece of paper for a collage effect.

Students use tissue paper cut into different shapes to create stained glass art.

Jason Logan is a Toronto-based artist, inkmaker and forager. He began his career as an illustrator in New York City and became interested in natural sources of pigment when his children were born. This documentary, organized by colour, takes us into Jason’s world, highlighting his curiosity, spirit of experimentation and creativity as he gathers natural and botanical materials throughout his travels and transforms them into ink, working like a mad scientist of sorts. For Jason, the creation of ink becomes a vehicle for connecting and relationship building with artists and other creatives from around the world. This mini lesson invites students to analyze where art materials come from by looking at the impact of drawing on the natural world to make ink. They will also explore concepts of permanence and ephemerality and can engage in geographically tracking the movement of Logan’s inks from place to place. The mini lesson also creates opportunities for students to research an individual artist represented in the film, and finally to work in pairs to make ink for one another.

Summary:
-after a mini unit on pencil sketching, have students sketch a Saskatchewan scene. Be sure students do not include a lot of detail.
-photocopy the sketch
-use primary colours to paint the picture
-allow the students to use the paints to create secondary colours
-paint the second picture using only the secondary colours.
-display the two art samples
-look at and discuss various Sk art and talk about colours
Outcomes:
CP6.11 Investigate and use visual art forms, images, and art-making process to express ideas about identity.
CP6.12 Demonstrate increased skills and problem-solving abilities in a variety of visual art media.
CR6.3 Examine arts expressions and artists of various times and places.

In this lesson, students will discuss what identity means to them and will consider how their own identities are affected by the social and political realities of their time. They will then discuss how four artists—Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Lange, and Alberto Giacometti—represent individual and universal identities in portraiture.

Various Grade 6 Math Handouts. Including Math Makes Sense Correlations to Sask Outcomes, Math Journal Reflections, Art/Math Activity, and I Can Statements.

Students' eyes are opened to the value of creative, expressive and succinct visual presentation of data, findings and concepts. Student pairs design, redesign and perform simple experiments to test the differences in thermal conductivity (heat flow) through different media (foil and thin steel). Then students create visual diagrams of their findings that can be understood by anyone with little background on the subject, applying their newly learned art vocabulary and concepts to clearly communicate their results. The principles of visual design include contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity; the elements of visual design include an awareness of the use of lines, color, texture, shape, size, value and space. If students already have data available from other experiments, have them jump right into the diagram creation and critique portions of the activity.

In this video, Senior Art teacher Ashley Clarke and Mr. Cates discuss some key elements of good visuals. Covers the topic of what types of images to put into your poster, how to organize your title, fonts, and colour

LIVE (Live Interactive Video Education) Arts Education is a dynamic distance education arts program for students in Grades 1 to 9. The program supports the Saskatchewan Arts Education curriculum and is delivered via the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education LIVE Network (CommunityNet).

Teachers sign up for grade specific programs then professional Artists connect simultaneously with teachers and students in multiple schools across the province of Saskatchewan for a LIVE experience with Arts Education.

Information about the grade level, arts strand, guest artist, date and time and program guides are listed on this website.

This program started out in 2005 as an Artist in the School distance education pilot program hosted by Regina Catholic Schools. Initially the broadcast programming was delivered by Mixed Media Artist in Residence Heather Cline from a special distance education broadcast classroom at St. Peter School in Regina. The program has continued to expand and evolve responding to the needs of Saskatchewan Teachers and the new Saskatchewan Arts Curriculum.

Last year the LIVE Arts program, in partnership with several Saskatchewan School Divisions, broadcast 36 programs featuring Professional Artists in the areas of Visual Arts, Drama, Music and Dance. Each program featured a Guest Artist working with a classroom teacher and their students. Teachers and students participating via distance technology followed along with the help of a guide that outlined the broadcast portion of the program and provided teachers with a follow-up hands-on activity.

In this simple lesson, students learn a new "blending" technique for oil pastels.

In this fun activity, students experiment with manipulating paper to create different shapes and effects. They also learn about (and practice creating) symmetry!