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Author
Publisher
Zephyr Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This collection of ideas and lesson plans will help classroom and home-school teachers integrate art into their general curriculum. These inventive and effective methods use the visual arts to inspire creative writing and drama; explore math, music, science, and history; and cultivate critical thinking skills. Art instructors will learn strategies for incorporating other areas of study into the art classroom. Ranging from thought-provoking suggestions...
Author
Publisher
Zephyr Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive art curriculum easily integrates 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. Detailed lessons developed and tested in classrooms over many years build on one another in a logical progression and explore the elements of texture, color,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Children will find artistic inspiration as they learn about iconic artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in these imaginative and colorful activities. The art and ideas of Kahlo and Rivera are explored through projects that include painting a self-portrait Kahlo-style, creating a mural with a social message like Rivera, making a Day of the Dead ofrenda, and crafting an Olmec head carving. Vibrant illustrations throughout the book include Rivera's murals...