Provides background information on the Plains People. Describes an art project used with seventh- and eighth-grade students to introduce to a lesson on the Plains People in North America. Explains how the students created a parfleche in detail. (CMK)

Provides background information on the career of the artist, Allan Clark. Focuses on his sculpture titled "The King's Temptress" that was influenced by his visit to the Angkor Wat (Cambodia). Includes activities in visual arts, language arts, history, and social studies. (CMK)

Describes how teachers can develop a student art auction as a way to raise money for an art program, the students, or other causes. Explains that an auction helps students feel like real artists. Discusses each aspect of the process from preliminary decisions to selecting artwork to bidding at the auction. (CMK)

Describes an art project that challenges the artistic skills of students by asking them to depict an everyday scene. Explains that the students learn about various artists, such as Edward Hopper, and must select a scene in which they are looking through something such as a window, door, or hallway. (CMK)

Provides background information on the art movement called "Photorealism." Discusses the types of art and artists included in this movement. Offers learning activities about Photorealism. Offers background information on Richard Estes and describes the content of his work, "Fairway." (CMK)

Describes a high school art assignment in which students utilize Appleworks or Claris Works to design their own house, after learning about architectural styles and how to use the computer program. States that the project develops student computer skills and increases student knowledge about architecture. (CMK)

Provides background information on constructivism. Focuses on Alexander Calder and includes teaching activities. Offers a reproduction of Alexander Calder's work "Flamingo," information on Calder's life and career as an artist, and details of the featured sculpture. (CMK)

Explains that at the end of a middle school's quarter, the author's students were asked to share their feelings about art in one sentence. The students' comments were made into a poster to display their ideas as a class. (CMK)

Offers a way to present art history to classroom students where the art teacher pretends to be an artist. Focuses on a lesson where the teacher pretended to be Mary Cassatt. States that the students used pastels when drawing their artwork, in conjunction with the art history lesson. (CMK)

Describes the artwork, "In the Garden" (Romare Bearden), focusing on its content and use of color. Provides background information on Bearden. Includes activities in mathematics, earth sciences, art history, religion and language arts, visual arts, and the Internet. (CMK)

Describes an art project in which noodles, the tubular colorful foam floating devices used in swimming pools, were the subject matter. Explains that the students drew their compositions, stretched the paper, and then used watercolor to paint their compositions. Discusses the process in detail. (CMK)

Describes an educational program focusing on workshops at the Junior Gallery, a part of the Everhart Museum (Scranton, Pennsylvania). Explains that the museum's collection is integrated with lessons in art appreciation, production, natural history, and other subject areas. (CMK)

Describes an art lesson using the styles of Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler in which the students created computerized drawings containing geometric forms. Explains that the lesson incorporates computer technology, art, and mathematics. Provides background information on Demuth and Sheeler and discusses procedures for the lesson. (CMK)

Discusses the pottery revival in the village of Juan Mata Ortiz that is located in Chihuahua, Mexico. Contends that the revival was inspired by the efforts and experimentation of Juan Quezada who rediscovered the materials and techniques necessary to reproduce the Casas Grandes style polychrome pottery. (CMK)

Describes an art activity for third-grade students where they create their own Japanese clay dolls complete with kimonos and obies after learning about Japanese culture and the importance of kimonos. Discusses the process of making the dolls and kimonos in detail. (CMK)