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Dorn, Charles M. – 1994
This volume examines the way individuals think about objects and events in the world. These thoughts specify a priori assumptions that indicate what will be considered beautiful, valuable, and good. Decisions made about these matters determine what actions will be taken in regard to them. The continuous change that historically characterizes art…
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Swenson, Anna M. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1987
Ten guidelines are offered for providing art experiences for blind young children include adding sound, smell, or taste whenever possible. Suggested activities include making styrofoam-toothpick sculptures, box sculptures, tape and feather collages, torn paper collages, and fingerpaintings. (DB)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Blindness, Classroom Techniques

DeMuro, Ted – School Arts, 1985
Junior high school students studied the cultural uses, symbolic meanings, and general physical forms of tombs and tombstones and then used basic slab building techniques to construct large clay grave markers. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Ceramics, Death

Irving, Hope; von Hunke, Robert – School Arts, 1985
This art activity involves secondary students in sculpturing netsukes, Japanese carvings dating back to the seventeenth century, from bars of soap. How the activity can be adapted for use with elementary students is also discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education

Hausman, Jerome J. – School Arts, 1985
Discusses Picasso's freestanding sculpture Baboon and Young, and art activities for using the sculpture with elementary and secondary students are suggested. A listing of resources is also included. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art History, Elementary Secondary Education

Walker-Taylor, Sherry – School Arts, 1985
An art activity to help preschool and first-grade children practice folding skills, explore methods and patterns of order and arrangement, and use counting skills is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Preschool Education, Primary Education

Schoenborn, Roy V. – School Arts, 1984
Techniques to help art students in grades 3-12 make soap sculptures are described. From a series of wild doodles students choose a single striking shape to render in soap. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Sculpture

Lankford, E. Louis; Marantz, Kenneth, Eds. – Art Education, 1985
The winning limericks in the First Artful Banter Limerick Contest are presented. Rules for art teachers who would like to enter the second contest are also included. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Teacher Developed Materials

Gregory, Anne – School Arts, 1985
An art lesson for teaching intermediate and secondary level students the fundamentals of printmaking is provided. Basic printmaking vocabulary and techniques are introduced. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Intermediate Grades, Secondary Education

Dubiel, Richard M. – Art Education, 1989
Examines Richard Avedon's photographic exhibit "In the American West" both as a work of art and as an important link to contemporary philosophical thought, particularly that of Jean-Paul Sartre, through its depiction of the human condition. Notes that the exhibit used as a teaching resource engages students in questions concerning art…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Images, Exhibits, Existentialism
Healy, John W. – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
Art education can provide students with a fundamental way to take the first steps in creating their own dream house. This document describes an art lesson plan that encourages students to use their imagination to draw a house that reflects their own personal and family needs.
Descriptors: Art Education, Family Needs, Art Activities, Childrens Art

Leonard, Stephanie – School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2005
Several years ago, the school system discussed in this article, agreed on a five-year cycle of nature themes to integrate instruction across disciplines. Last year, students studied artists and artworks inspired by oceans. Students also explored the theme with their own artistic expressions. Teachers began the year with lessons based on sea…
Descriptors: Art Education, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum, Oceanography

Walter, Bethany – School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2005
Developing learning experiences around real-world scenarios engages students in hands-on, authentic learning that promotes skills such as: research methods, collaboration, workplace skills, persistence, information organization and application, and self-reflection practice. The final work, new skills, and knowledge may then be demonstrated to an…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Middle Schools, Art Education, Art Activities
Free, Cory – Tech Directions, 2005
Drafters must be detail-oriented people. The objects they draw are interpreted and then built with the extreme precision required by today's manufacturers. Now that computer-aided drafting (CAD) has taken over the drafting profession, anything less than exact precision is unacceptable. In her drafting classes, the author expects her students to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Drafting, Art Education, Design Requirements
Hetland, Lois; Winner, Ellen; Veenema, Shirley; Sheridan, Kimberly M. – Teachers College Press, 2007
Many people believe that art education is important, but few can say exactly why. In this book, are the results of the first in-depth research on the "habits of mind" that are instilled by studying art--habits the authors argue that could have positive impacts on student learning across the curriculum. "Studio Thinking" provides art teachers with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Formative Evaluation, Art Teachers, Art Education