Description
Bring art history into your art classroom in elementary art, middle school, or high school art classes. This illuminated manuscript focused lesson is perfect for 4th grade and older students, up to lower high school art. This medieval art project focuses on metal tooling techniques bringing drawing and sculpture together to create a relief design.
Students are introduced to medieval art and illuminated manuscripts before designing an illuminated letter based on their first and last initial. Metal tooling is a cheap, fun way to bring sculpture into your art classroom.
All in all this medieval art project pack includes:
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Lesson plan (big idea, objectives, US national standards, instructions, and more, 10 pages)
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Teacher notes (2 pages)
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4 PowerPoint presentations (56 slides)
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Demo video (17 minutes)
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Brainstorm activity (2 pages)
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Illuminated letter references (2 pages)
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Implied texture reference (2 pages)
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Pattern reference (2 pages)
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Project guide (2 pages)
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Medieval art fast finisher activity (3 pages)
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Bookmark metal tooling activity (2 pages)
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Art project checklist (1 page)
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Art project rubric (1 page)
Students walk through all of the steps of creating a work of art from research to brainstorming to practicing designs to creating their design.
This medieval art project lesson pack is fun, engaging, and adaptable to a wide range of art students. Get everything you need to teach this lesson even if you have never used metal tooling in your art class.
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