In these two lessons, grades 5-8 will learn about the large stained-glass rose window in Notre Dame Cathedral built with radial balance. They will create their own window out of black construction paper and colored tissue paper....

In this two-period art history lesson, grades 5-8 study the artistic trends in the Romantic era. In the first period they will sketch a landscape scene with pencil. In the second period, they will paint it with one color, adding...

Grades 2-8 learn about Pointillism, a form of painting that uses dots instead of smooth brush strokes. Students make their own pointillistic picture using markers.

Grades 5-8 learn about Impressionism in art, specifically the paintings of Claude Monet. They paint water lilies using bleeding tissue paper to show Impressionism's focus on color and light without distinct lines. This lesson...

Grades 5-8 will learn about art in ancient history, focusing on the art inside the Egyptian pyramids. They will draw pictures of people or architecture on sandpaper to replicate ancient drawings on the stone walls of the...