Modern Art History Warm-up

How do you make every minute count? Starting class with a warm-up can help students switch gears and begin thinking of art. Have a prompt projected on a screen before each class. As students file in, they begin their warm-up. This allows for the teacher to take roll and help with a few student situations. …

What do you do in the first 5 minutes of class? Make every minute count by providing a warm-up every day of the school year! The Ancient Art Warm-Up bell ringer includes 180 days of warm-ups in 75 pages. It covers art from 30,000 B.C. to Neoclassicism. Highlights from the Ancient Art History Warm-Up include …

How do you create a positive art studio environment? Applying the 8 Studio Habits of Mind can enhance student and teacher’s experience together. Download the 8 Habits of Mind Poster here. The size is 10-inches x 42.5-inches. I keep it posted at the front of the room to remind student and myself of the studio …

Spider artwork? Yes! Along with the fall season, spiders are a great theme to explore. Teach this lesson with Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkins as a juxtaposition of female artists’ childhood dreams of becoming artists and how they each pursued their dreams. These two lessons – Kusama and Bourgeouis’, back-to-back can be taught in two 50-minute class …

Should holiday crafts count as art? Celebrating traditions and holidays is fun, but should educational time be used to do so? I’ve felt that holiday projects can be done at home; art education is another level of teaching and shouldn’t be used for crafts. I recently read, “When art is relegated to creating stereotypical holiday …

How do help students look closer at artwork? Observing art is a skill that can be taught through practice. This lesson – Sound of Art – helps students focus on the sounds that lay in artwork and challenges them to recreate the sounds. Student creativity flourishes as they collaborate with others and find clues left …

How do you engage young students in movement while making art? There’s no better way than for them to explore with their bodies creating Pendwall drawings. A Pendwall drawing is a series of drawings in which you use both sides of your body and through movement create art. I learned about the artist Tony Orrico …

Helping children draw the other half of a drawing increases their skills to observe and strengthen hand-eye coordination. For younger students, books like Double Draw – have mirror-image drawings, allowing students to finish the fun pictures. Student Tips LEFTIES – For left-handed children, turn the book upside down. The coil binding will get in their way while they …

LEARNING Learning is…an “incremental discovery of successful levels of description—a kind of constructive representation building operation” (Marshall, 2005, p. 231). “ART is a form of inquiry with some processes and goals that are similar to those of other areas of study” (Marshall, 2010, p. 14). “If the aim of education is to fully activate the …

Classroom behavior modeling is key to helping students follow your expectations and instructions. You can have fun with each time you use TEMPO in your demonstrations. I like to talk through why I am not doing something or the outcome if I were to proceed. This helps students understand more clearly the words you are …