Teach Art

A Lifetime of ColorTM Lesson Plans make all of your classroom subject more colorful. These lesson plans incorporate art into a variety of subjects like science, social studies, math and reading. (PDF lessons require free Acrobat Reader)

• Bonkers About Beads (Grades K-2)
• Go Fish (Grades K-2)
• Picture Your Numbers (Grades K-2)
• The Weather (Grades K-2)
• New! Paul Klee: Kookie Kittys -Finger Puppets (grades 1-2)
• New! Road Trip: Line, Pattern and Movement (grades 1-2)
• Drawing with Dali (Grades 1-6)
• Embellished Egyptian Masks (Grades 1-6)
• Magnificent Monet (Grades 1-6)
• Midde-Age Manuscripts... Illuminated, That Is! (Grades 1-6)
• A Picture Perfect Place (Grades 3-4)
• Look to Your Dreams (Grades 3-4)
• New! Field of Dreams: Marc Chagall: Expressive Color and Space (grades 5-6)
• Into The Spectacular Sea (Grades 5-6)
• New! Roller coaster: Joseph Stella: Movement and Unity (grades 5-6)
• Remembrance Through Public Art (Grades 7-8)
• See What I Hear (Grades 7-8)

Winning Lesson Plans from "Learning With Art" Contest

Try these complete lesson plans, tied to the National Visual Arts Standards. Complete with background information and downloadable visual resources.

Grades K-4:

• Designing Future Transportation. (Grades K-2)
• Forms in Architecture. (Grades 2-4)
• Lots of Lines. An Introduction to Line. (Grades K-2)
• Oval Action Figures. (Grades 1-4)
• Proportional Portraits: Making Realistic Faces. (Grades 3 and up)
• Walk into the Desert – A Line and Wash Landscape. (Grades 1-4)
• Where Earth and Sky Meet. (Grades 1-4)
• Who Am I? Looking at and making portraits. (Grades K-3)

Grades 5-8:

• A More Perfect Product. (Industrial design). (Grades 5-8)
• Artists...are in their right minds!. Explore the brain (left and right) and art through experiments. (Grades 5-8)
• City Streets in One-Point Perspective. (Grades 5 and up)
• Design a House. (Grades 5-8)
• Designing Future Houses. (Grades 5-8)
• Exploring the Deep: Creating Space and Distance. (Grades 5 and up)
• Fantasy Buildings in Two-Point Perspective. (Grades 5 and up)
• Watercolor Landscapes. (Grades 5-8)
• Watercolor Painting Techniques. (Grades 5-8)