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National Art Education Association, 2015
"Design Standards for School Art Facilities" is an invaluable resource for any school or school district looking to build new facilities for the visual arts or renovate existing ones. Discover detailed information about spaces for the breadth of media used in the visual arts. Photographs illustrate all types of features including…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Visual Arts, Arts Centers
Mulcahey, Christine – Teachers College Press, 2009
When children look at works of art they tell stories, share experiences, imagine, and explore. This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedom, to design rich and open-ended art experiences for young children. The author looks at the work of a variety of artists and offers guidance for using these artworks as taking-off points for…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Art
Henderson, Clare; Fraser, Deborah; Price, Graham – NZCER Press, 2008
What is happening in arts teaching and learning in our classrooms? Recent NEMP reports tell us that Year 4 students are not performing well but that there is an increase in scores at Year 8. This new professional development resource builds on research into teacher practice in Years 0-6 classrooms in New Zealand primary schools. It offers new…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Art Education
Reilly, Mary Ann; Gangi, Jane M.; Cohen, Rob – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
This book is a wonderful blending of methodologies. This juxtaposition of art and literature serves as an instrument for teachers to inspire their students to create, critique, compare and predict, all higher-level intellectual behaviors, while composing across symbol systems. The work contains detailed classroom transcripts of strategies that…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Sociocultural Patterns, Current Events, Writing Workshops
Allen, Felicity – MIT Press (BK), 2011
This book will be an original and indispensable resource for all who believe in the importance of art in the wider educational realm. Framing the recent "educational turn" in the arts within a broad historical and social context, this anthology raises fundamental questions about how and what should be taught in an era of distributive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Educational Change, Anthologies
Runion, Garth E. – 1990
The Golden Section, also known as the "Golden Mean" and the "Divine Proportion," is a ratio found in art and nature that has mathematical properties. This book explores these geometric and algebraic properties in a variety of activities. Construction problems, designs using the pentagon and pentagram, and opportunities to work…
Descriptors: Algebra, Art, Art Activities, Geometric Constructions
Britton, Jill; Britton, Walter – 1992
This book contains transparency masters, duplication masters, and activities for teaching tessellating art. Part 1 gives instructions and information for creating transparencies from the paper masters in this book. Part 2 provides the transparency masters along with detailed instructions about when and how to use each of the transparencies.…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Seymour, Dale; Britton, Jill – 1989
This book explores a class of geometric patterns called tessellations, a pattern made up of one or more shapes which completely cover a surface without any gaps or overlaps. Focus in on one of the more elementary types of tessellations and investigation of them through concepts basic to art, geometry, and design. The seven chapters look at which…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Design, Geometric Constructions
Hume, Helen D. – 1998
This teaching resource provides information about specific artists, art materials, art history, and museums. There are many reproducible pages, and resources for art publication and materials. Information on portfolio preparation, how to photograph artwork, writing for publication, and resources for art publication and materials is provided.…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Art History
Robinson, Dindy – 1996
The guide is intended to be a supplement to multicultural units in primary grades. The activities are freehand and students should be encouraged to use their imaginations and ideas to improve on a design. The approach is based on a whole language philosophy of learning with simple art activities that encourage creativity and critical thinking in…
Descriptors: African Culture, American Indian Culture, Art, Art Activities
Smith, Nancy R.; And Others – 1993
This book emphasizes the teacher's active role in fostering a developmental understanding of painting in children from ages 1+ to 11. The cognitive processes behind children's painting are explored. The book suggests meaningful tasks for each phase of imagery and offers methods for encouraging children to discuss the concepts involved in their…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Criticism, Art Education
Cornia, Ivan E.; Stubbs, Charles B.; Winters, Nathan B. – 1994
This book describes an art program that combines the knowledge, imagination, and evaluative factors of creativity for a productive pattern of student growth in perception, thinking, valuing, and art skills. Over 200 basic concepts have been arranged in logical, developmental order to give students a valuable body of knowledge. Instruction focuses…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
Fuerst, Ann H. – 1994
Illustrated with reproductions of Mayan art and architecture, this activity book contains readings and activities about the Maya, including bilingual lesson sheets. The materials link middle school classroom studies of Mayan culture with history, social studies, and community resources. Eight lesson units explore the central aspects of Mayan art.…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Architecture, Art, Art Activities
Walker, Pam Prince – 1993
This book describes a course in drama, art, and story writing for children in grades four through eight. Twenty lesson plans guide students from creating scenes in drama to writing and illustrating their own stories. The plans include simple and practical improvisations for the classroom, as well as suggestions for plays and exhibits of the…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Art
Herbert, James, Ed. – 1985
Prepared as a sequel to the College Board Educational Equality Project's "Academic Preparation for College: What Students Need To Know and Be Able To Do," this book examines curricular ideas, teaching strategies, arts learning rationales, and related issues. The arts are defined as separate fields of study which offer a distinctive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Art, Art Activities
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