Art history for middle school

The Artists and the Elements is a year long art curriculum that combines the elements of art, art history, and hands on art projects that make art fun!

Six early finisher activities for students who complete their classwork long before everyone else. These activities are inspired by works of art with a focus on art history.

Learn how you can sneak Art into your elementary or middle school curriculum without it being obvious. Great ideas for STEAM, language arts and student-lead research projects that will have your students learning in enriched ways through the arts.

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10 No-Prep Art Projects you can do with your kids TODAY! Enjoy the benefits of an art history education without hours of research and prep. These 10 projects will inspire your kids, and get them creating in no time.

In this Gothic Cathedral for middle school project, students design their own Gothic Cathedral while learning about architecture.

The daily practice of art history warm-ups will develop art criticism skills while investigating a broad range of artists throughout history.

To complete my series of posts about art & art history games here is "the" one about art history BOARD games! It is not an…

GORGEOUS art history lessons for elementary-aged kids. Would be great for homeschoolers.

From time to time I have students research an artist prior to beginning a project and record their understanding of that artist and their work by making an Artist Page. They are encouraged to arrange all the relevant information in a manner that represents or connects back to the artist. This gives me the opportunity to see if they are ready to begin the project. This was their very first one on Rene Magritte/Surrealism before they did a surreal collage using Magrittes artistic devices…