Teacher Resources

Go West, Young Artist. An ArtEdventure about landscape composition, set in an interactive story about the American West in the 1870s. Travel westward and meet six landscape artists to learn the basics of landscape composition. (Fifth Grade and up)

Try This: Texture Rubbing Landscapes. Artists create textures with paints, pencils, clay, or anything else they can get their hands onto. Here's how to use coloring media to make "rubbings" of textures you can find all over your house!

Lesson Plan: Walk into the Desert – A Line and Wash Landscape.This three-lesson unit focuses on different artistic devices for creating depth: rhythm, atmospheric perspective, and detail. (Grades 1-4)

Lesson Plan: Where Earth and Sky Meet. Primary grade students seldom perceive the earth and sky as meeting at the horizon. This lesson will increase your students’ awareness of the meeting of sky and earth—the horizon! They will also learn the basic stages in creating a watercolor painting. (Grades 1-4)

Lesson Plan: Watercolor Painting Techniques. Students observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry), then experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercolor paper. (Grades 5-8)

Lesson Plan: Watercolor Landscapes. Students build on skills gained in Watercolor Painting Techniques and use watercolor paints to create a landscape painting. (Grades 5-8)

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