Art teachers at the middle school or junior high school level usually find themselves in a program teaching ceramics. The most essential tools needed for a ceramics class are discussed. Different kinds of clay are also discussed. (RM)

In this art activity gifted students, ages 10 to 13, learn about internal and external rhythms and make a painting of an internal rhythm. The lesson can be expanded with a discussion of Kandinsky, Pollock, and other painters who have painted sound or have demonstrated rhythms. (RM)

Intermediate and junior high school art students learn to create vertical stripe designs in this introductory lesson which teaches about complementary colors, value contrast, symmetry, and texture. (RM)

An intermediate-grade art teacher describes how she teaches her students about Henri Matisse. Students learn about the life and background of Matisse, study his reproductions, and apply techniques that they have learned to their own art works. (RM)

Described is an art museum located in the converted classroom of a middle school. Students plan and install the exhibitions, act as guides, and write catalogs and publicity materials. (RM)

How a seventh grade teacher incorporated art history into a 12-week unit on drawing, painting, color, ceramics, printing, and sculpture is discussed; an art program that involves sixth graders in preparing one-artist shows is described; and suggestions for developing a permanent high school art gallery are presented. (RM)

After viewing and discussing slides of Van Gogh's and Munch's paintings and studying the principles of color, middle school students had to execute two drawings, one showing any emotion and the second depicting an expressionistic self-portrait. (RM)

Children enjoy learning experiences that revolve around animals. Describes a course in which middle-grade students took a field trip to the zoo and sketched various animals. When the students returned to class, they had to do a highly detailed painting based on their favorite sketch. (RM)

An art project that involved middle school students in picking a story, making puppet characters, and filming a television show is described. The students also made television commercials. (RM)