2,461 results
Middle school art history projects
Hispanic Heritage Month Activities: Pablo Picasso Art Project, Roll a Dice Game
Ready to liven up your elementary art curriculum with a fun Hispanic Heritage Month activity? This Pablo Picasso art project will boost confidence and creativity. Kids will be amazed by his abstract Cubist portraits. Moreover, they’ll connect with his personal story about discovering Cubism. And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create lesson plans based on modern abstract portrait artists like Pablo Picasso. During this lesson on Picasso your class will learn about Cubism, an art style
Grades:
4th - 7th
Op Art and the Elements of Art • Art Lessons • Step by Step Tutorials
Op Art is perfect for you if you are looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your elementary art students about the elements of art. Op Art and the Elements of Art includes five different optical illusion lessons that incorporate the elements of art, allowing your students to learn about line, color, space, and more. Your students will learn how to manipulate the elements of art to create stunning works of op art. They will explore optical illusions and use contrasting colors to create eye-p
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
Also included in: Op Art MEGA Bundle!
Pop Art Lesson: Keith Haring Dancing Figures Art Project, Sub Plan, Artist Study
Ready to liven up your elementary art curriculum with a no prep, Pop Art lessons? This Keith Haring art project will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will be energized by his brightly colored dancing figures and barking dogs. Moreover, they’ll connect with his personal style of painting public murals about important social causes.And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create lesson plans based on Pop Art artists like Keith Haring. During this art project, your class will lea
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Roll a Sugar Skull Day of the Dead Art Project, Template, & Elementary Sub Plans
Need a Day of the Dead art project for your bulletin board in November? Imagine these sugar skull drawings in your hallway with a writing prompt. The step by step drawing tutorial and PowerPoint also makes perfect no prep, emergency art sub plans for elementary art teachers.A fun roll a sugar skull game, ‘you pick’ worksheet, and digital spinners helps kids choose patterns. Moreover, boost their confidence and creativity. And, it’ll help cash-strapped teachers like you plan Dia de los Muertos ac
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
Chinese New Year Art Project: Chinese Ming Dynasty Vase Art Lesson & Sub Plan
Ready to liven up your middle school art curriculum with engaging, no prep Chinese New Year art projects? This Ming Dynasty vase lesson will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will be intrigued by production of the cobalt blue porcelain ceramics. Moreover, they’ll enjoy playing a roll a dice game to make a vase of their own!And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create art lesson plans based on ancient China. During this art project, your class will learn about pottery, earthe
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
"The Frame" Frida Kahlo Collaborative Poster | Great Cinco de Mayo Accompaniment
“The Frame” by Frida Kahlo Collaboration Poster. This art activity is great for your Cinco de Mayo celebrations, Hispanic Heritage studies/celebrations, or to accompany your history lessons on Frida Kahlo and your art lessons about her famous artwork, “The Frame.” 3 options includedWith colors assignedWithout colors assignedIn Spanish+plus a bonus coloring pageThe final poster is great for:• Art shows• An auditorium• A hallway • Your classroom bulletin boardThis art activity is intended to compl
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 10th
Types:
Superheroes ! Pop Art Project - Art Lesson Plan
Who doesn't like superheroes? Students love them!A theme that boys love, and girls can also enjoy.This project is a great occasion to work on how to draw characters, while discovering an incredible artist: Roy Lichenstein, through the Pop Art movement.Level:Grade 3 and up. Also great for Junior High and High School.Technique:Drawing with feltsMaterials:Permanent black feltsRegular coloured feltsTactile or glossy paperScissorsGlueLead pencil, eraserVisual Language:Thick and thin linesPrimary colo
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
Also included in: Art Lesson Plans Bundle : Grade 6 Visual Art
Op Art Cubes Lesson
A great art project made from simple materials found in almost any art room! Students will learn about the Op Art movement of the 1960s. They will then create their own "Op Art Cubes" using paper, and Sharpie markers. Included in this lesson:- Op Art Design Booklet Containing 10 Different Designs- 13 Pages of Step-By-Step Lesson Instructions- Short Reading Article on the Op Art Movement- Practice Sheet - Cube Template- Grading Rubric
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 12th
Wassily Kandinsky Art Lesson: Roll A Dice Game, Artist Biography, & Exit Tickets
Ready to liven up your elementary art curriculum with a fun roll a dice drawing game? This Wassily Kandinsky art project will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will appreciate his Abstract Expressionist style of painting. Moreover, they’ll connect with his personal story about being from a creative family and pursuing a career in visual arts.And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create lesson plans based on modern artists like Wassily Kandinsky. During this art lesson on Kan
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Vincent van Gogh PowerPoint and Art Project - Starry Night Movement Art Lesson
Teach your students all about Vincent van Gogh with this 40-slide PowerPoint presentation on his life and work, plus an accompanying art lesson!This project will help students create unique artwork inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. Students learn about emphasis, movement, and warm/cool color schemes, and they use their own creative landscape ideas so that no two projects will look alike! Recommended for students in grades 4, 5, 6, and up. The PowerPoint may take up to one class p
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Ancient Egypt Portraits Art History Project: Middle School Art Sub Plan Activity
Ready to liven up your middle school art curriculum with engaging, no prep Ancient Egypt art projects? This Egyptian portrait lesson will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will be intrigued by how they displayed wealth with jewelry, wigs, ornate collars, and makeup. Moreover, they’ll enjoy creating a portrait with fashions of the times.And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create art lesson plans based on Ancient Egypt. During this art project, your class will learn how line
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Modern Black Artists Art Projects, Artist Study, Rubrics for Black History Month
Need ideas for Black History Month art projects for your elementary and middle school art curriculum? These engaging, step by step art lessons will boost confidence and creativity. Use fun roll a dice art games to teach modern Black artists like Ringgold, Basquiat, Bearden, Laurent, and Cantrell. Your classes will love them!And, they’ll help time-starved teachers like you create lesson plans quickly. No more searching for art worksheets and artist biography handouts online. Art rubrics, exit tic
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 8th
Van Gogh Starry Night Art Lesson: Roll A Dice Game & Directed Drawing Project
Ready to liven up your elementary art curriculum with engaging, step-by-step oil pastel projects? This Van Gogh Starry Night art lesson will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will appreciate his thick, swirling brushstrokes and bold colors. Moreover, they’ll connect with his journey to becoming an artist.And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create lesson plans based on modern artists like Vincent Van Gogh. During this Starry Night project, your class will learn how Van Gogh
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Andy Warhol PowerPoint and Art Project - Pop Art Portrait Elementary Art Lesson
Teach your students about Andy Warhol with this 35-slide PowerPoint presentation all about his life and work, plus an accompanying art lesson!This art project will help students create their own colorful, repetitive portraits inspired by Andy Warhol! Recommended for students in grades 3, 4, 5, and up. The PowerPoint may take up to one class period, and the art lesson will likely take three or four class periods.This lesson requires no prep aside from photocopying the student handouts. Download
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Black History Month Art Project: Jean-Michel Basquiat Portraits & Art Sub Plan
Ready to teach a Black History Month art project in February that’ll keep elementary or middle school kids engaged? This Jean-Michel Basquiat art lesson will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will appreciate his loose style of painting. Moreover, they’ll connect with his personal story of grit and determination. And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create lesson plans based on modern Black artists like Basquiat. During this project, your class will discover Jean-Michel Basq
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Henri Matisse Collage Art Project, Roll A Dice Game, Biography, & Exit Tickets
Ready to liven up your elementary art curriculum with a fun roll a dice drawing game? This Henri Matisse art lesson will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will appreciate his colorful paper cutout collages of leaves, dancing figures, and squiggles. Moreover, they’ll connect with his personal story about “painting with scissors” from bed. And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create lesson plans based on modern artists like Henri Matisse. During this collage art lesson, your
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Ancient Greece Art Lesson: Roll A Greek Vase Middle School Art Project Templates
Ready to liven up your middle school art curriculum with an engaging, no prep Ancient Greece art lesson? This Greek vase project will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will be intrigued by the durability of their pottery which featured athletes from the ancient Olympics. Moreover, they’ll enjoy the roll a Greek vase game to make their own!And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create art lesson plans based on Ancient Greece. During this art project, your class will learn abou
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
WWII Propaganda Posters Activities and Project Print & Digital
Examine over a dozen famous WWII home front propaganda posters for the devices used, culminating learning with students creating posters of their own to address a current school problem.Let your principal decide whose poster has the winning message to transform your school’s culture!This plug-and-play PBL activity kit comes as a printable PDF and digital in Google Slides!Greatness is spotting persuasive devices at work and knowing how to use them for good. World War II was the U.S.’s greatest f
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 11th
Types:
Also included in: US History Activity and Project Kits Bundle Print & Digital
Famous Artist Research Project
Famous Artist Research Template and Project: A fantastic research project for middle/high school students! Students will use the easy-to-follow research template to learn more about a famous artist. The student will research their artist and design a poster to use in an oral presentation in class. Grading rubric is included! You have the option to assign the artists or let each student choose their artist. Included with this resource:Student Assignment Handout (Project description/expectations
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 10th
Also included in: Art Education Resource Bundle ( Buy all 3 -- Save Money )
Art History Lessons: Vincent Van Gogh - Into the Woods Fall Lesson
Giving a shout out to the great season of Autumn! I mean look at all the colors splashed among nature!
One project that I created with my second grade students was inspired by the Avenue of Poplars by Vincent Van Gogh. Yes my friends, you can teach one point perspective to young students and not pull out your hair!
As I said, the inspiration was this delightful painting Vincent created in the fall. What he wrote to his brother Theo, “with yellow autumn leaves and the sun casting here and there
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Renaissance Art Show and Newspaper Project
This fantastic, interactive project has students analyzing some of the most famous art and artists of the Renaissance by rotating around the room with a "reporter's notebook". Students then use their notes to create newspapers detailing the art and artists as if the art show was taking place at your school!The download includes:6 stations with art and background info on Renaissance artistsA "reporter's notebook" sheet for note takingNewspaper templateLesson plan directions with video linksEditab
Grades:
5th - 10th
Types:
Also included in: Renaissance Art and Literature Complete 1 Day Lesson Bundle
The Mona Lisa by Leondardo Da Vinci Collaboration Poster
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci Collaboration Poster – 2 options included (with colors assigned and without) plus a bonus coloring page. This art activity is intended to complement/supplement any lessons on The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci or the Renaissance Period. This collaborative poster is the perfect way to start a unit to cap one off. It is an engaging and entertaining way for students to work together to create a large poster of, arguably, the most famous piece of art in the world!Th
Grades:
1st - 8th
Types:
Delicious Desserts Oil Pastel Art Lesson || Cupcakes + Ice Cream Cones
Looking to ramp up the quality of your art instruction by teaching students how to draw and shade realistically? In this oil pastel project inspired by American artist Wayne Thiebaud, students will not only learn how to draw 3D forms, broaden their knowledge of color theory, and learn shading techniques to create a gorgeous work of art, but they will beam with pride once they learn how to take their flat drawings to the next level. In this dynamic and visually stunning lesson, students will lear
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 9th
Also included in: Elementary Art Lessons | Growing Bundle
Optical Illusion Art (OP Art) & an Intro to Line
This lesson is meant to act as an introduction to one of the most important elements of art, line and to some OP Art artist who use it well (Bridget Riley & Victor Vaserely). It is targeted to students between the 6th and 8th grade levels and takes about 1 day to introduce, 1 day to finish the warm -up/ practice worksheet and 2 days to create and finish the final project for a total of 4 days give or take. There are 2 handouts with examples and step by step instructions to create OP Art patt
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 10th
Showing 1-24 of 2,461 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands