Alabama ELA Standard: 5.LF.26.a

When does a simple symbol have more power than a word?

Look closely at Twilight in the Wilderness. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

One artist, two paintings. Notice details, compare, synthesize, then find a parallel in another creator’s work.

Let’s give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.

Andy Goldsworthy turns leaves and stones into art. Your students will learn to draw his signature natural curves — then build on them.

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.

We open our unit on narrative writing with a big idea: “structure increases creativity.” I show how this is true by bringing in examples from across all disciplines.