Describes an art project in which fifth-grade students create abstracts and collages after exploring artwork of various artists. Explains that this project is perfect as a final activity for the school year and also helps to use up any leftover paint supplies. (CMK)

Introduces the topic for the next Clip and Save Art Print series: unique regions of the North American continent. Includes three paintings, with background information, on this topic. Discusses the format and use of the Clip and Save Art Prints. (CMK)

Provides background information on Emily Carr, who is considered one of Canada's greatest painters. Includes a reproduction on her artwork titled "Vanquished" and presents ideas for activities. Explains that "Vanquished" reflects the collapse of the North American Indian civilization along the coast of British Columbia. (CMK)

Describes an activity for third-grade students in which they learn about early American landscape painters, specifically Frederick Church, Thomas Moran, and Albert Bierstadt. Students create natural landscapes, using the basic elements of landscape compositions. Discusses the process. (CMK)

Describes an art assignment used in an oil painting class in which the students create a nonrepresentational painting using acrylic paint. Explains that the second stage of the assignment involves students in finding a face in this first painting and using oils to create the face on top of the original artwork. (CMK)

Presents an art lesson used with sixth-grade students in which they painted their school mascot (a tiger) in the style of a famous artist. Explains that students selected an artist, such as Andrew Wyeth or Edvard Munch. Describes how the students created their tigers. (CMK)

In order to compile information to be used as a basis for developing a curriculum for teaching glass as an art material on the college level, glass experts, artists and centers in 12 nations were visited. It was clear that the US lags far behind other countries in teaching glass, in using it as a subject for art exhibitions and using it creatively…

Prepared by a curriculum writing team of secondary teachers, this draft curriculum guide for grades 7-12 includes 25 levels of achievement in art. Each level has stated behavioral objectives and a list of suggested activities from which it is hoped the teacher will pick the most appropriate ones for his/her classes. Some of the areas of art…

The specific purpose of this research was to elicit preference judgments by children about slides of paintings representing five categories of subject matter and two broad categories of style from equal numbers of males and females at three different grade levels. The intention was to find some insight in the mediating factors that may influence a…

Based on the presumption that art teachers ought to be able to describe the value of what they do and place it within a framework for rationalizing the contributions of their work to the educational development of the students they teach, this research is an attempt to describe what children learn when they paint, draw, or make three-dimensional…

Provides a full-color reproduction of Pieter Paul Rubens' painting, "Prometheus Bound," and a lesson plan for using it with students in grades 10 through 12. The goal of the lesson is to introduce students to the techniques of design and execution used by Rubens. (JDH)

This lesson plan collection focuses on attitudes and opinions held by Native Americans and European Americans about the United States. The lesson plans are arranged in four sections: (1) "Ancestral Lands" (Debating for Land; Making Treaties and Weaving Wampum; Pipestone Quarry and Westward Expansion: Whose Rock Is It Anyway); (2)…

Objectives and content of an interdisciplinary social studies-art program for elementary children are discussed. A sample lesson and evaluation activities from a successfully implemented pilot program are provided. (RM)

Results of this study indicate that students' attitudes toward styles of painting studied were influenced in a positive direction through use of an experimental curriculum. (RW)

Describes an art lesson used with fifth grade students in which they created paintings with a mother child theme. Explains that the students learned about the mother child theme in an art history context. Discusses how the students created their artworks and lists materials and resources for the project. (CMK)