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Expressive / Imaginary Landscape 

Media Types: Drawing, Painting
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12
In this 4-lesson unit, students will learn how to use composition, scale, and value to create still life drawings.

Tempera Painting Exploration

Media Types: Painting
Grade Bands: 3-5, K-2
In this 3-lesson introductory unit, students will explore the basics of tempera painting, starting with how to use a paintbrush to create a variety of marks, lines, and shapes. They will also learn to mix primary colors to make secondary colors, brown, and a range of tints.

Still Life Drawing

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12
In this 4-lesson unit, students will learn how to use composition, scale, and value to create still life drawings.

Making and Using a Sketchbook: K-5

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 3-5, K-2
In this 2-lesson unit, students will learn how to make their own sketchbooks, observe other artists’ sketchbooks, and explore their own ideas through drawing and collecting in their sketchbooks.

Making and Using A Sketchbook: MS/HS

Media Types: Collage, Drawing
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12
In this 2-lesson unit, students will make a sketchbook with materials found at home. They will understand different ways to use a sketchbook as a tool.

Paper Sculpture

Media Types: Collage, Sculpture
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In these lessons, children will make paper sculptures by folding, curling, rolling, twisting, tearing, arranging and stacking paper.

Beautiful Stuff

Media Types: Sculpture
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In these lessons, children will use 3-dimensional objects to arrange, explore, and discover ways to connect and combine them.

Basquiat: King Pleasure Curriculum Guide

Media Types: Collage, Drawing
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12
This educator guide engages students in observing, connecting, and responding to works in the exhibition ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure’.