I was Googling Fine Art lesson ideas recently (5 minutes ago) and came across the Crayola site for educators. They actually have some really cool stuff on their site. They offer cross curricular lesson plans like Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and, of course, Visual Arts.
The site has lesson plans for grades pre-K to 12! That's pretty impressive. They have one more option of course, which product of theirs you would like to use. e.g., chalk, clay, crayons, dry-erase, oil pastel, silly putty, etc...
One example lesson is the Black Bat Silhouette:
It is an American site, so they have American "standards" (our PLOs). They are similar and easy to find in our PLO system.
They also provide you adaptations and related lesson plans.
Bye for now :)
Here is the site for this particular lesson (you can reach the main site from this link):
http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/black-bat-silhouette-lesson-plan/
My daughter (M.Ed. in Visual Arts Education) has a favourite quote on creativity from the Crayola site. Great to find activities like this...but beware of "cookie cutter" art - once students see the technique and try it, can they develop their own scenes...what other kinds of trees would look interesting against a coloured sky? What objects other than bats? How to arrange them? Like real artists, allow them to work in series and to have choice, sometimes, to go back to a favourite technique with a new idea. It's all about the development of their choices and decisions.
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