Students will observe images of gardens, visualizing and imagining the shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and smells of the plants, flowers, and other objects in a garden. They will also write about and sketch their observations. Students will then design and create a model of their own imagined garden.

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Check out this site for how to draw instructions for these flowers: geranium, poppy, rose, calla lily, daffodil, tulip, sunflower, hydrangea, cosmos, apple blossom, snowdrops, and camellia.

There are countless drawing options for students to explore (animals, people, cartoon characters, objects, etc.) within this how-to-draw video collection.

This resource includes a number of Edvard Munch projects that students could try. 

Students will learn about medieval manuscripts and artistic representations of fantastical creatures. They will create their own fantastical creature using complementary colors and write a paragraph describing it.

Consider rocks "found objects" and you've suddenly got 60+ ideas for how to paint them. Endless opportunities and endless chances to tie students' paintings into course content!

This activity is for upper primary or middle years students, but could easily be adapted for younger students too. Students draw an African animal of their choice on watercolor paper, outline the animal with black glue, then finally paint over their project with watercolors. The final result is BEAUTIFUL!

Google Arts and Culture is a massive collection of videos and images of cultural artifacts from over 2,000 museums around the world. You can explore places around the world and gather vetted resources for lessons and activities for your classroom.

There are many things you can do with web version but there is even MORE to explore when you download the Arts and Culture App available for Android and IOS.

10 Things you can do with Google Arts and Culture: (plus much more!)
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3. Take an art selfie
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Lesson Rationale:
This lesson is important because it gets the students to explore different mediums of art. It also gets them to learn about artists that are part of Saskatchewan and what types of images they make. The students get to explore working outdoors while drawing and creating a 2D image of an object that they may have never payed much attention too until this assignment. They also get to go deeper with this, by taking a photo of a scene they come across that captures their attention, not on school property. This assignment allows for the students to be able to feel comfortable sharing their images with the rest of their peers, without feeling like they may be judged. They get to be in a safe sharing environment. This assignment also give students the confidence to believe in themselves that they can create an object or scene that they see in real-life. It gives them the confidence to see that they too can be like Saskatchewan artists and can create images that incorporate Saskatchewan.

The Planet Protector Academy: H2Whoa! resource teaches students about water conservation and protection and inspires them to take action.

The resource consists of four 60-90 minute lessons that include content developed with Indigenous elders, culture keepers and artists.

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In this lesson from Art Hub for Kids, students are shown how to draw a Russian Nesting Doll.

Students will form two groups, and each group will analyze a still life. Then each student will write a three-paragraph essay describing how to draw the work of art they are studying. Each student will exchange his or her essay with someone in the other group who will draw the still life based on the essay's description. Depending on the accuracy of their peers' drawings, students will add more details to their essays.

Students will analyze "Man with a Hoe" by Jean-Francois Millet, and learn how the artist's use of shape and space creates emphasis. Students will discuss their interpretations of the painting and provide visual evidence to back up their ideas. They will create a persona poem that demonstrates their interpretation of how the man in the painting feels. Students will then illustrate their understanding of how shape and space creates emphasis by drawing a person in their family who works hard.