Grade 7: The Arts: Creating and Presenting

Patrick Connors teaches the value of Perspective in regards to drawing.

Guide to learning various Art Techniques from the Artist's Network

Guide to various art techniques by the Park West Gallery

A guide to essential art vocabulary

Guide to various indigenous artists in Canada

This unique comic construction tool stresses positivity, awareness, and self-acceptance. The site also offers lesson plans specifically for ELLs. Students begin by choosing a character and emotion from the site's library; then they can add captions with dialogue, tinted backgrounds, and objects. Thought-provoking exercises and activities help kids identify feelings and stress both empathy and self-assessment.

Guide to various visual arts lesson plans sorted by grade and content

App for the Ipad to help students create digital art.

App to help create digital designs

Students choose from eight artists: Hokusai, Cézanne, Monet, Rousseau, Van Gogh, Klimt, Klee, and Modigliani. After selecting an artist, they can choose a background from one of the artist's iconic works and then add in specific elements and details -- birds, flowers, or moons, for example -- from a selection of the artist's oeuvre. Art teachers can use PlayART with students after completing units on any of the artists included or after any lesson on masterpieces. For a more general art appreciation unit, kids can remix classics from various artists at once. The unique works can be saved to the museum, where some of the artists' original compositions are also included as suggestions.