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 Watercolor and Matboard: This was a lesson written by my high school painting teacher, Cheryl Niehaus, and published in A Survival Kit for the Elementary/Middle School Art Teacher by Helen D. Hume. I really enjoyed doing this assignment when I was in high school and so I wanted to try it as a teacher. My Advanced Art students got a kick out of only using matboard to paint and no brushes. The piece below was done by Nadya , 12th grade.

Organic Sequence Drawing: In continuing to learn how artists look to their environment for inspiration and subject matter, this lesson challenged Art I students to draw from a variety of natural objects that I brought in. The students were required to use several different mediums and techniques such as : pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, stippling, hatching, cross-hatching and shading to accomplish the assignment. Above by Megan 9th grade

For this assignment I wanted to give students the opportunity to use computer technology to create an original artwork. The students first found a picture from a magazine they liked and then scanned it into the computer. Once importing the image into Photoshop, they used the tools and layering techniques to make an Impressionist looking painting. After they were finished, each student deleted the base layer containing the actual magazine photo and so were left with their own piece of work. Above by Megan 11th grade

Kade 9th grade

 In the 8th grade ceramics unit I taught a lesson that my cooperating teacher uses each year where the students make whistles. The students loved making something that created sound. It was a little tricky at first getting the holes cut right, but once they figured it out, some of the students made a second one. At the end of the year Tyler (the biggest Rams fan I've ever met) really touched my heart when he gave me the blue ram that you see in the back as a gift, and since he knew I was from St. Louis.

 I wanted to teach students how to draw self-portraits while at the same time allowing them to learn about a portrait created by a famous artist. So with this lesson students researched on the web at artchive.com for a portrait that they liked. Then they had to draw their own face and/or figure in place of the model in the picture.

  Whitney 9th grade

Stevie 10th grade