Product Description: This comprehensive art curriculum can easily be integrated into any teacher's existing instruction and provides thrilling and rewarding projects for elementary art students, including printmaking techniques, tessellations, watercolors, calligraphic lines, organic form sculptures, and value collages...read more

Product Description: For many elementary and middle-school students, art class is their favorite part of the day. Yet these students don’t realize that art is a catalyst for expanded learning in other classes. Teaching Children Art offers today’s pre- and in-service teachers sound ingredients for nourishing children’s aesthetic sensibilities and inventive capacities...read more

Offers guidelines for evaluating and assessing visual arts education at elementary and secondary levels.

This comprehensive resource provides practical information, proven management tips, and over 100 specially selected art projects to help new and veteran K-8 art teachers implement an effective art education program and make art appreciation and activities fun. For easy use, materials are printed in a big 8 ¼" x 11" format with lay-flat binding for photocopying of various management aids and student project handouts, and organized into two main parts. Part 1, The Art Program, offers tested guidelines and reproducible tools for building and managing the program. Part 2, The Art Curriculum, presents 102 exciting art projects organized by medium into nine units: (1) Exploring the Elements & Principles of Design, (2) Paper, (3) Painting, (4) Drawing with Pencil, Pastels, Crayons & Markers, (5) Painting, (6) Printmaking, (7) Three-Dimensional Design, (8) Architecture, and (9) Technology: Computer, Photography, Video. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on such topics as the daily experience of teaching art in today's public schools; the tradition of honoring only the European patriarchal canon; structural change in school policy and curriculum and teaching. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using Art to Make Art is a book of activities based on art concepts, art elements, and principles. The emphasis is on process and a variety of mediums are explored. It is important to understand that art reflects different cultures and time periods in history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The sixty step-by-step lessons are simple, based on important principles and elements of art. This text may be used in any sequence with students ages 8-13. Can help even the non-art teacher. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers guidelines to introducing children to the world of art and integrating art into their everyday lives, addressing approaches to line color in different art mediums while emphasizing the need for creativity and individuality.

Product Description: Using award-winning books, Frohardt teaches realism, surrealism, expressionism, naive, and cartoon. Complete directions, enhanced by liberal illustrations, make this a user-friendly resource for grades 3-6.

Product Description: 8 Posters, Innovative Activities, and Background Information to Explore Key Events in American HistoryAmerican History is electrifying with these 8 art masterpieces, each focusing on a remarkable event of the past: Revolutionary War, Trail of Tears, Westward Expansions, Civil War, Immigration, and more...read more

An assortment of activities representing different cultures throughout the world (view table of contents)

Product Description: More than 120 classroom-tested art projects are at your fingertips with this resource. Arranged according to the eight design elements (e.g., composition, line, texture) and by grade level, these activities reference art history, and many are multiculturally based and curriculum integrated...read more

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Product Description: Based on the methods taught in parent-child workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this book presents step-by-step art projects for beginners of any age or level of ability. The projects include working with paint, paper, collage and clay...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Provides resources for teachers who want to develop their multicultural education programs using art projects

Product Description: Picturing Learning is the story of how Karen Ernst, a former middle school English teacher, developed an artists workshop parallel to a writers workshop, integrating reading and writing into an elementary art program. The artists workshop includes literature and writing, student choice and collaboration, portfolio as a means of assessment, and exhibition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)