Intro to Drawing Curriculum: Everything for a Semester Art Class

Description

Unlock your students’ artistic potential with this middle school art and high school introduction to art curriculum for teaching basic drawing techniques. Designed for art teachers, this comprehensive art curriculum provides everything you need to teach a semester-long art and drawing course. With lesson plans, student handouts, and assessment materials, you’ll have all the tools you need to inspire creativity, develop technical skills, and foster visual literacy in your students.

Whether your students are beginners or advanced, this art project drawing pack is adaptable to all levels and customizable to suit your teaching style. All you need are the art making supplies, and you are set for the semester! In addition to short activities and worksheets, it includes 6 take-home quality projects to help teach perspective drawing, shading techniques, grid drawing, and more!

This introduction to art drawing curriculum includes the following art projects and art activities: 

⭐️Semester long timeline

⭐️First day items: syllabus bathroom passes, tell me about you sheet, art survey, letter to parents, artist to know table, and behavior contract

⭐️Art notebook set up: Table of contents and worksheets

⭐️11 lesson plans: includes big idea, essential questions, goals, objectives, supplies, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, national standards

⭐️Project rubrics

⭐️Critique worksheets

⭐️PowerPoints

⭐️Worksheets: Includes elements of art, principles of design, visual journal, drawing, perspective drawing, contour line, and many more.

This is what I use to teach my Introduction to Art classes drawing basics every year. It is a compilation of my favorite projects, how to teach drawing basics, and a look at how I organize my class.

❤️You will LOVE this bundle pack because it includes lessons, worksheets, and a lot more to fill every single day of a semester!

Read more details on the lessons included below:

• 3 contour line exercises
• 1 contour line project
• 3 art shading worksheets/exercises
• 2 line quality exercises, 1 project
• 1 scratchboard project
• 1 mixed media drawing project
• 2 grid drawing exercises
• 1 drawing with the grid portrait project
• 1 perspective drawing exercise
• 1 perspective drawing project

This bundle also includes all of my visual journal resources, a $30 value already added to the many drawing projects designed to help students get started on the right *art* foot. I hope this Intro to Art unit will engage your students as much as they engage mine.

Start your semester off right and give your students the gift of art with this essential product. Buy now and elevate your art instruction to the next level!

✅Check out the preview for a closer look at these middle school art and high school art shading worksheets and more! 

What teachers are saying…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I used this for my upper-grade-level art curriculum to teach the basics of learning to draw. It gave me a lot of great guidance on activities that would enforce drawing and lead up to a great cumulative project for the semester. It worked perfectly for the wide range of artists and age groups I have in my classes.” – Amy D.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This was an extremely useful resource in planning new projects for my Drawing I and Drawing II students.” – Kristina S.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students LOVED every aspect of this!!! Thank you!!!” – Danielle N.

Interested in a full year of Introduction to Art projects, including sculpture and painting projects? Check out my yearlong curriculum here.

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