Description
This middle school art semester long curriculum is everything you need to teach a semester in a middle school art or upper elementary art course. This art curriculum includes middle school art lessons, projects, activities, and worksheets, functioning as a survey of a variety of art making. With the elements of art and principles of design as a guide, it’s a perfect introduction to drawing, painting, mixed media, sculpture, clay, and mixed media. With this bundle, you won’t have to plan a single day of an entire semester in your art class.
This curriculum includes 12 projects, 17 activities, and 50 art worksheets and handouts. Each lesson includes a lesson plan, supply list, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, PowerPoints, rubrics, critique sheets, handouts, and anything else needed to complete the project. These middle school art lessons or elementary art lessons are ready to go.
This middle or upper elementary art curriculum focuses on introducing students to a wide range of materials and techniques. Each project focuses on a different element of art or principle of design.
All in all this curriculum includes:
- Timeline with project overview and pacing
- Supply list with project supply breakdown and a comprehensive list
✵First day of school handouts
- Syllabus
- Tell me about you worksheet
- Parent information sheet
- Behavior contract
✵Elements of Art, Principles of Design
- 2 worksheet packs with 16 back and front handouts that cover the elements of art and principles of design.
- These activities will guide the projects and teach students about the elements of art and principles of design.
✵Folder to Sketchbook
- Folder to Sketchbook Lesson plan (including big idea, essential questions, objectives, national standards, supply list, and day-to-day how-to)
- Introduction PowerPoint
- Step-by-step instructions
- Rubric
✵Sketchbook Prompts
- 92 sketchbook prompts
- Jar label for a prompt jar
- Classroom implementation
✵Still Life Drawing
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step-by-step instructions on implementing the project)
- Still Life Intro PowerPoint
- Viewfinder template
- Still Life PowerPoint II
- Self-evaluation sheets
- Artist research sheet
- Critique sheet
- Rubric
- Checklist
✵Value Handouts
- A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step-by-step instructions on implementing the activity)
- Value and shading worksheet
- Value scale and labeling worksheet
✵Atmospheric Perspective Middle School Art Lesson
- Lesson plan
- Distance learning instructions
- Grayscale atmospheric perspective example and info sheet
- Monochromatic atmospheric perspective example and info sheet
- Grayscale how-to, with step-by-step instructions
- Monochromatic value scale how-to, with step-by-step instructions
- Grayscale landscape scene how-to, with step-by-step instructions
- Monochromatic landscape scene how-to, with step-by-step instructions
- Links to a grayscale demo video and monochromatic demo video
- Project checklist
✵Zentangle Maze
- A lesson plan, including the big idea, objectives, essential questions, a breakdown of the process, and national art and language art standards are included for grades 6th-12th.
- Rubric
- Critique worksheet
- 2 zendoodle practice worksheets
- Zendoodle maze how-to worksheet
- Presentation (PDF and PowerPoint versions)
✵Egyptian Cartouche
- A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions). With instructions to use for second grades or adapting it for older students up to 6th grade.
- Egyptian art, project presentation
- Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
- Egyptian cartouche drawing how to
- Hieroglyphics guide
- Project checklist
- Early finisher, drawing an Egyptian column
- Early finisher, Egyptian sarcophagus information
- Early finisher, Egyptian sarcophagus activity
✵Color Theory
- Color theory lesson plan (including big idea, essential questions, goals, vocabulary, national standards, supply, list, step-by-step instructions, and more.)
- Part I PowerPoint
- Color wheel worksheet
- Part II PowerPoint
- Color schemes worksheet
- Part III PowerPoint
- Grayscale and neutrals worksheets
- Assignment checklist
✵Blind Contour Color Mixing
- Lesson plan (including the big idea, essential questions, objectives, national standards, and step-by-step instructions)
- Sketchbook assignment sheet
- Project assignment sheet
- PowerPoint (also in PDF format)
- Rubric
- Critique sheet
- Critique Labels
- 2 videos (time-lapse of a blind contour drawing plus a blind contour demo and explanation)
✵Radial Symmetry
- A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions).
- 2 PowerPoints and PDF presentations to start each day
- Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
- Project how to
- Block letter how to
- 4 versions of a mandala design early finisher
- Project checklist
- Project examples
✵Perspective Name Activity
- A thorough lesson plan (big idea, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions)
- PowerPoint presentation that shows visual examples of the perspective concept
- Assignment sheet for students to take home and read through with parents
- How to Draw Perspective Letters handout
- Perspective Letters Step by Step handout
- Checklist for the teacher to check once class resumes
- Project demo video parents and students can watch from home to help guide them through the projects (available through a YouTube link)
✵Perspective Person
- A thorough lesson plan (big idea, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions)
- Assignment sheet for students to take home and read through with parents
- How to Draw a Perspective Person handout
- Perspective Person Step by Step handout
- Checklist for the teacher to check once class resumes
- Project demo video parents and students can watch from home to help guide them through the projects (available through a YouTube link)
✵Self Portrait Print
- A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions). With instructions to use for second grades or adapting it for older students up to 6th grade.
- Teacher notes, so even if you are unfamiliar with scratch foam printmaking, you know how to best set up for it.
- 4 PowerPoint and PDF presentations to start each day
- A Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
- How to edit their photo using the free online program, Pixlr
- Value scale example and activity
- Andy Warhol artist sheet with two activities
- Project checklist
- How to label an edition handout
✵Clay Bell
- Lesson Plan with big idea, essential questions, national standards, step-by-step instructions, vocabulary, and supply list
- 2 PowerPoints
- Sketchbook activity
- Demo video
- Clay bell project guide
- Critique reflection
- Critique feedback sheet
- Rubric
✵Mini Tape Transfer
- A thorough lesson plan
- Demo video to show how to create a tape transfer
- PowerPoint presentation to introduce the project
- Project guide handout
- Tape transfer how to worksheet
- Student checklist
- Rubric
✵Design Your Own Final Project
- A lesson plan
- PowerPoint to introduce the assignment with project examples
- Rubric
Each of my classes is designed to build on the last. These middle school art lessons build to the lessons and techniques taught in my Introduction to Art course and Drawing I course. This course functions well as taught before the Intro to Art course.
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