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3-D Geometric Forms, free to copy!
Bring geometry and art together with these fun explorations for middle and high school students. With over 50 models you can photocopy or scan, this STEM-based resource can be used for lesson planning or sub plans to keep students engaged and deepen their understanding of math, geometry, measuring, proportion, tool use, and more! Click cover to see the book on Amazon.com |
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Art Ed Guru:
A Comprehensive Guide to Art Education & Choice-Infused Teaching Filled with 30+ years of pedagogical teaching advice for a choice-infused art education program. Over 200 full color images and explorations to challenge the prospective art teacher or seasoned educator looking to offer more student choice in the classroom practice. |
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Art Teacher Review: "This guidebook is exceptional, and belongs in every art teacher’s collection of go-to reference books. There are so many superb elements: high quality feel, high quality content, colorful, and easy to read. Every single page packs a punch of greatness. The thing that stands out the most is that I can actually read entire paragraphs without having to stop everything in order to decipher and isolate the important information. Meaning, the main ideas pop out of the paragraphs in an at-a-glance format, while still informing the reader with key details. Perfect for us busy educators, who need information (and solutions) quickly! Every word in this book counts. Uncomplicated and unpretentious. Beautiful layout. I highly recommend this book as essential." ~Brenda Pace
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Art Education Magazine
This biannual series adds on to pedagogical information and art lessons presented in the author's book, "Art Ed Guru: A Comprehensive Guide to Art Education & Choice-Infused Teaching." All lessons and resources have been tested in a classroom setting. These lessons and materials may be copied by the buyer/teacher for their students. Many lessons include short links to supplemental videos on the author's YouTube channel and blog of the same name; ArtEdGuru.com. Contents include: Setting Up Your Room, Seating Charts, Decorating, Staying Ahead of Paperwork, Curriculum, Parent Night and Syllabus, Establishing Rules & Norms, Cell Phone Issues, Bathroom Passes and Points, Justifying Art, Opening Surveys. Introductory Projects: Cell Phone Art, Music as a Bridge, Name and Languages, Who am I? Rubrics are included and additional resources. |
#2 SEL Lessons. These open-ended, choice-based explorations explore themes of music, life experiences, personal symbols, modes of expression, family, goals, and loss. Rubrics, samples, links to videos and additional free resources are included.
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These are tried and true sub-plans for middle through high school, with some simple units for special needs students and lower grades. All are designed for minimal impact on supplies; from just a pencil, to simple supplies like colored pencils, crayons, or whatever you have available.
These are also great one-day lessons for those odd half-days, or when one class finishes too early, or if you have a student in OSS or ISS and need to provide lessons. This book includes: Poetry Illustrations, Art Quote Illustrations, Altered Image Exercises, Drawing Prompts, Color Exercises, Directed Drawings, Video Notes Worksheets, and so much more! VIDEO HERE This book must be paired with one more to honor this sale price due to shipping costs. |
If you are having a baby, on sabbatical, need to take an extended medical leave, or deal with a family crisis, you must have plans for your substitute.
This FULL COLOR version provides up to a year of coverage by a non-art specialist with 50 differentiated lessons and rubrics that span K through 12th grade with advanced extensions. Links within lessons connect to video tutorials for subs who may have little knowledge of art. Explorations can be done with different kinds of media. As you review the projects, make notes, check what you wish to be used, and cross off items you do not. Cut the binding of this book, and put the pages through a hole puncher so everything can be added into a binder for your substitute. |
If you are having a baby, on sabbatical, need to take an extended medical leave, or deal with a family crisis, you must have plans for your substitute.
This Black & White economic version provides up to a year of coverage by a non-art specialist with 50 differentiated lessons and rubrics that span K through 12th grade with advanced extensions. Links within lessons connect to video tutorials for subs who may have little knowledge of art. Explorations can be done with different kinds of media. As you review the projects, make notes, check what you wish to be used, and cross off items you do not. Cut the binding of this book, and put the pages through a hole puncher so everything can be added into a binder for your substitute. |
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Keep Scrolling: MANY more resources below!
Fifty Differentiated Art Lessons for grades K through 12
(FYI: These are the same lessons as in the Extended Sub Plans Book above,
but these include many more resources for experienced certified instructors.
It does not contain the media handling information necessary for subs.)
(FYI: These are the same lessons as in the Extended Sub Plans Book above,
but these include many more resources for experienced certified instructors.
It does not contain the media handling information necessary for subs.)
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This FULL COLOR book contains fifty differentiated art lessons for K-12 students, with extensions for advanced classes. Many include links within lessons that will connect to mini-video tutorials. Most explorations in his book can be done with different kinds of media. Don't have oil pastels? Use crayons, colored pencils, or just about any drawing media. Taking a drawing project and re-tooling it to be a painting lesson is often possible. Use what you have on hand.
These are lessons I have developed over my thirty-year art teaching career. I specifically chose these fifty, because the root of each can be simplified for younger or special needs students, and beefed up for the more advanced. This book ends with critique worksheets, grading rubrics, classroom resources, and enough single-day sub plans for 25 absences! For 30% off $44.95 retail price, use the Paypal link below. USA ONLY.
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This economy black and white edition contains fifty differentiated art lessons for K-12 students, with extensions for advanced classes. Many include links within lessons that will connect to mini-video tutorials. Most explorations in his book can be done with different kinds of media. Don't have oil pastels? Use crayons, colored pencils, or just about any drawing media. Taking a drawing project and re-tooling it to be a painting lesson is often possible. Use what you have on hand.
These are lessons I have developed over my thirty-year art teaching career. I specifically chose these fifty, because the root of each can be simplified for younger or special needs students, and beefed up for the more advanced. This book ends with critique worksheets, grading rubrics, classroom resources, and enough single-day sub plans for 25 absences! For 30% off $24.95 retail price, use the Paypal link below. USA ONLY.
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NEW 2024: 51 More K-12 Art Lessons: This is the 2nd installation of lessons based on the popularity of the author's first book. This FULL COLOR edition contains fifty-one more differentiated art lessons for K-12 students, with extensions for advanced classes. All lessons include links that will connect to mini-video tutorials and/or more samples to use for instruction. Most explorations in his book can be done with different kinds of media. Don't have oil pastels? Use crayons, colored pencils, or just about any drawing media. Taking a drawing project and re-tooling it to be a painting lesson is often possible. Use what you have on hand. (Click the book cover to see or purchase it on Amazon) For the economy Black & White edition, use this LINK.
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This black & white economy edition contains the same fifty-one differentiated art lessons as the full color edition, with extensions for advanced classes. All lessons include links that will connect to mini-video tutorials and/or more samples to use for instruction. Most explorations in his book can be done with different kinds of media. Don't have oil pastels? Use crayons, colored pencils, or just about any drawing media. Taking a drawing project and re-tooling it to be a painting lesson is often possible. Use what you have on hand. (Click the book cover to see or purchase it on Amazon)
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Our #1 Selling Title: Used in classrooms across the USA!
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UPDATED with 15 Performance Based Benchmark Exams (SLO/SGO) Art Assessments includes various forms of art based evaluations from open ended responses, to traditional tests and quizzes, and more. Designed for middle school and high school art classes, this book includes a lot more. Your purchase also entitles you to make copies for all your students! ALL content has been created by the author, a certified art teacher, and tested on actual students in a real school environment.
This book includes tests in multiple formats of open ended, formative, interim, and summative assessments including scantron, fill-in, multiple choice, performance based assessments, interval skills assessments, and altered formats to meet 504/IEP requirements. Other assessments include open ended responses, core curriculum connections, project and testing rubrics, review guides, research paper guidelines, art history introductions and worksheets, skills based assessments, vocabulary worksheets, portraiture scale information, note taking pages, sub plan video worksheets, critique worksheets and sample, self evaluation forms! Created for grades 4 through 10. |
SLO/SGO Exams
(These have been pulled from "Art Assessments" and "The Advanced Art Teacher's Workbook")
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20 Art Benchmark Exams:
Performance Based SLO/SGO Exams For Grades 4 through 12
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20 Art Benchmark Exams:
Performance Based SLO/SGO Exams For Grades 4 through 12
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This book contains 20 benchmark exams. "SLO/SGO." They have been pulled from our books "Art Assessments" and "The Advanced Art Teacher's Workbook" as there was a desire from readers to just purchase the exams without the supporting materials. There are several versions of each labeled a, b, c, d. "A" is more simplified and progress, becoming more challenging. "D" would be acceptable for your most advanced students.
They are designed to show student growth with simple performance-based assessments building up to more detailed ones. If your school requires an SGO or SLO, (a "test" to prove growth) the second (#2) and last exam (#5) are used to illustrate annual student progress and are labeled as "evaluations." The others, labeled "assessments," are meant to give the instructor a sense of how well students are understanding general vocabulary and its practical use. Comes with the rights to make copies for your students! |
Back In Print! Art projects tied to history.
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Firehouse Publishing partnered with Nathan Levy Publishing to create this unique resource that pairs history with art lessons designed for different ability levels. Each era/theme is followed by several lessons designed for different age groups.After an introduction of the element and principles of art the topics include: (Grades 4 and up)
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STEAM/STEM Based Art Lessons
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Economy Black & White Edition: This book aims to help core content teachers integrate art into their content to help with deeper understanding on multiple sensory levels. I encourage you to seek out your certified art teachers for advice and guidance. This book however was designed with the non-art teacher in mind, but may also be helpful to those who home school, have an integrated curriculum, or the art teacher seeking to more overtly include core content projects into their lessons while still meeting the demands of their own curriculum. (See color edition description for more information.)
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DELUXE COLOR Edition: This book aims to help core content teachers integrate art into their content to help with deeper understanding on multiple sensory levels. I encourage you to seek out your certified art teachers for advice and guidance. This book however was designed with the non-art teacher in mind, but may also be helpful to those who home school, have an integrated curriculum, or the art teacher seeking to more overtly include core content projects into their lessons while still meeting the demands of their own curriculum.
Art can be a great means for students to get a deeper grasp on their subjects and the connections between courses. Research shows that students who take art succeed at higher rates than those who do not. In the U.S., art students score, on average, 100 points higher on their SATs. In my own district, using my methods, our students scored 155 points higher on average than students who did not take art in 2013. If your school is STEAM focused, this is the book for you! (S.T.E.A.M.: Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) |
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Our unique series of sketchbooks
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The Classically Inspired Sketchbook:
(Grades 4 and up) This book allows the purchaser to make copies for their students or personal use. This book was created as a collaboration between an art teacher who is an author, and an English teacher who loves art. Illustration and verse have long been great partners; one cannot survive without the other. We present these classical poems to be explored and illustrated, giving them new life. From Shakespeare to Louis Carroll and many in-between, no one should go through life without being exposed to these timeless works of poetry. Though this book was written with art teachers in mind, it will be a valuable resource for English, literature, and history teachers as well. A short blurb about each author appears on the back of each page with space to write an interpretation of the poetry. This combination of art, history, literature, writing, interpretation, and illustration becomes a powerful educational tool attaining the highest levels |
The Inspirational Sketchbook:
(Grades 4 and up) This book allows the purchaser to make copies for their students or personal use. Art mixes with literature as we create illustrations for famous quotes on art by some of the most names throughout history like Einstein, Picasso, O'Keeffe, and Queen Victoria to name but a few. Read, interpret, and learn; a deeply interdisciplinary approach and supplement to an art education program or for personal growth. A short blurb about the author of each quote appears on the back of each page with space to write an interpretation on what the author meant. There is also space for readers and students to explore more about the author of each quote. This combination of art, history, literature, writing, interpretation, and illustration becomes a powerful educational tool attaining the highest levels of learning on Bloom’s Taxonomy; analyze, evaluate, and create. |
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Each page of this black and white edition has an image to complete in some fun and unexpected way. You can see some wonderful examples of artists who do this today like Christoph Niemann, Tatiana Khlopkova, or Hyemi Jeong.
Feel free to use this book as a sketchbook, turn it in any direction you feel works for your idea. Teachers can cut the spine, and start a bin of images to be completed when students finish regular class work early. This book is also available in full color (To the Right). It is just a starting point and may inspire you to take some photos on white backgrounds yourself and play with the same concept on your own. |
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Each page of this DELUXE FULL COLOR book has an image to complete in some fun and unexpected way. You can see some wonderful examples of artists who do this today like C. Niemann, T. Khlopkova, or Hyemi Jeong.
Feel free to use this book as a sketchbook, turn it in any direction you feel works for your idea. Teachers can cut the spine, and start a bin of images to be completed when students finish regular class work early. This book is available in black and white (to the left), based on your budget. It is just a starting point and may inspire you to take some photos on white backgrounds yourself and play with the same concept on your own. |
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This is a sketchbook… and it's nearly empty...
Each page has a suggestion at the bottom of the page for a drawing project right above. The back of each page is left black so inks that bleed will not ruin the following page. If you use permanent marker you may wish to slip in another sheet of paper to prevent deep bleeding of inks to later pages. Teachers can cut the spine of the book to make an "I'm Done" bin for early finishers. Students read the prompt and draw on the same page. Pages can be copied and used for sub plans. Artists may find that this book inspires many ideas and offers a fresh perspective. Teachers should feel free to cut the spine of this book and use these pages as hand-outs in a bin for when students complete regular project work too early and need something of quality to keep busy. Many of these concepts may spur on others for larger projects. |
Abstraction & Expressionism Guides
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This edition (Updated with culture connections in 2018) is written for elementary grades six and under, and includes 26 lesson ideas, with additional space for sketching and planning projects. It is a great way for children to explore the foundations of expressionism.
It’s easy to say you love someone or dislike something. You can even draw things to help people understand these feelings, like a heart or a frowning face. But artists can say the same thing with colors and shapes. It’s like a secret language, a code that is very easy to understand once you know how. Why do you think nearly every country uses the color red on their stop signs? There is a good reason. Why are many toys made from circles? You already use the ideas of color and shape in your everyday life. Everybody does. We just need to learn to use these ideas to show our feelings when we make art. This book will help you explore these ideas and use them to create art with secrets within them. We call that expressionism. With these ideas you can paint a face and use color to show how you feel about that person. You could also paint a face of a person and not even draw the eyes, nose, and mouth. By using colors and shapes that show what the person is like, we can say something about that person visually. |
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This edition (Updated with more content in 2015) is written for middle and high school classes and includes 26 lesson ideas, with additional space for sketching and planning projects. It is a great way for children to explore the foundations of expressionism.
It’s easy to say you love someone or dislike something. You can even draw things to help people understand these feelings, like a heart or a frowning face. But artists can say the same thing with colors and shapes. It’s like a secret language, a code that is very easy to understand once you know how. Why do you think nearly every country uses the color red on their stop signs? There is a good reason. Why are many toys made from circles? You already use the ideas of color and shape in your everyday life. Everybody does. We just need to learn to use these ideas to show our feelings when we make art. This book will help you explore these ideas and use them to create art with secrets within them. We call that expressionism. With these ideas you can paint a face and use color to show how you feel about that person. You could also paint a face of a person and not even draw the eyes, nose, and mouth. By using colors and shapes that show what the person is like, we can say something about that person visually. |
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