Art
Student-friendly art projects with easy-to-find materials.
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.
Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!
Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you'll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!
What if a students' self-portrait was made of words that describe the student!?
What if this triangle pattern just kept repeating… forever!?
You could keep zooming in on this snowflake forever!
Terri Eicholz explains how she builds empathy in her students using the story of the Faberge Eggs.
What's going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What's his job? And where's his other boot?
Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren't curvy.
What are these two women up to? What's that thing she's holding? Let's make some inferences!
How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Students will work their brain in several ways, noticing details, comparing, synthesizing, and finally identifying a parallel. All with one artist's work!
Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.
Let's give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.
PDCindy Phan shares her method of introducing watercolor to students using a mosaic technique.
What's going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let's make some inferences!
Here's how you can draw The Penrose Triangle, an example of an impossible shape.
Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?
Let's get students' art really popping with two-point perspective!
Teach students to draw, and then build on, natural curves using the style of artist Andy Goldsworthy.
How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?
How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!