In Grade 1 Visual Arts, students are asked to create artworks that express their own ideas, while exploring different forms (like painting, drawing, and printmaking) and different media (like paint and found objects).
Explore this collection to find resources and activities suitable for Grade 1 Visual Arts.
This comprehensive site offers art lessons and activities at a wide range …
This comprehensive site offers art lessons and activities at a wide range of levels: - PreK-K - Grades 1-2 - Grades 3-5 - Grades 6-8 - Grades 9-12 - College/University
This activity is "based on painted houses in South Africa created by …
This activity is "based on painted houses in South Africa created by the Ndebele tribe." The designs on the houses are painted by women in the tribe and usually feature geometric shapes, bright colors, and symmetrical designs.
Explore the many forms of visual art, from basket weaving to painting, …
Explore the many forms of visual art, from basket weaving to painting, and glasswork to furniture, with resources that encourage analysis, research, and practice. Preschoolers can practice their colors and discover how colors change when mixed with a lesson from the Abracadabra series. Middle and high school students can design self-logos and write descriptions of them after watching "The Art of Logo Design" from Off Book. The Math + Arts collection provides cross-curricular lessons that combine math with visual arts topics such as Shapes & Patterns, Perspective Drawing, and Totem Poles. Filmmaking, photography, and architecture, in addition to careers in art, the history of visual arts, and art institution, are all also explored.
Explore the videos, interactive lessons, interactives, lesson plans, galleries, audio files, images, documents, webpages and collections. Lots to offer!
This lesson focuses on a family depicted in a work of art. …
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 …
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.
This lesson focuses on different exterior spaces depicted in works of art. …
This lesson focuses on different exterior spaces depicted in works of art. Students practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and how people react to the sea. Activities in this section teach students about some of the elements of art (color and line), adjectives, and two kinds of sentences (declarative and imperative).
Students will discuss works of art that have grotesque elements and symmetry …
Students will discuss works of art that have grotesque elements and symmetry in their design. They will identify symmetry and line in grotesques. Students will create symmetrical designs for a pilgrim bottle and also design a door panel using grotesques. They will then analyze William Blake's poem "The Tiger" and write their own grotesque-inspired poetry.
This is a super simple printmaking project for kids. Students cut shapes …
This is a super simple printmaking project for kids. Students cut shapes out of craft foam to glue onto cardboard, creating their own unique collagraph.
Rainbow anything is beautiful but these leaf prints combine the colors of …
Rainbow anything is beautiful but these leaf prints combine the colors of the rainbow with the delicate details of leaves for a finished product you just want to keep looking at!
Students will discuss the sculpture "Python Killing a Gnu" by Antoine-Louis Barye. …
Students will discuss the sculpture "Python Killing a Gnu" by Antoine-Louis Barye. They will use their imagination to visualize a setting for the python depicted in sculpture. Then they will describe their setting, sculpt a clay snake, and create their setting using mixed media.
Fostering Remembrance is a part of everything The Legion does. Through The …
Fostering Remembrance is a part of everything The Legion does. Through The Royal Canadian Legion's longstanding Annual Poster and Literary Contests, Canadian school children honour Canada’s Veterans through creative art and writing, and help perpetuate Remembrance.
Contests are available for students 5 to 18 for posters (colour & black and white), essays and and now a video entry category as well.
You can find links to the entry forms (one must be attached and signed by a parent to each entry), contest guide and entry forms on the site as well.
The Saint Basil Cathedral is one of Russia's most popular cultural symbols. …
The Saint Basil Cathedral is one of Russia's most popular cultural symbols. There are several templates to print that students color then arrange into their own Russian-inspired masterpiece.
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