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Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 2002
Describes a second and third grade art activity in which students used celery cores to create pictures in the style of Georgia O'Keefe. Explains that the students learned about O'Keefe's artwork and describes how the students created their prints. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Artists, Childrens Art
Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 2000
Describes a two-part art activity in which second-grade students first create self-portrait puppets of themselves as band members and then create another portrait puppet in the Cubist style of Pablo Picasso. Explains that the activity enables students to compare realistic and abstract styles. Includes learning objectives. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Artists, Bands (Music)
Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 1999
Describes a unit on lighthouses, originally a social studies unit, in which students participate in two art projects: (1) a lighthouse printmaking activity and (2) a scratch-etch activity using lighthouses. Describes the steps for printmaking and the process of creating scratch-etch drawings. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products, Childrens Art
Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 2000
Discusses a unit on the discovery of the senses that integrates art and science. Students create pictures of a "smell" using the crayon-resist process. Explains that during the second day, students "smell" their peers' paintings to determine what aroma is being depicted. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 1999
Describes a combined occupations/art unit for fourth- and fifth-grade students. The teacher shows slides of people in various careers, students then chose two pictures of people in occupational settings and discuss them, and finally students draw self-portraits of themselves in a career they find interesting. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Career Awareness, Childrens Art, Educational Objectives