Hey, AOE Readers! We know that communicating your curriculum to others can be tricky. It can be almost impossible to get coworkers and administrators to actually understand the important skills and co

There is a lively thread over on the Facebook group, Elementary Art Teachers about a curriculum map. I’ve recently written about why you should write your own curriculum and the challenges th…

Deborah Roe - Art Curriculum Map

Hi! I recently finished rewriting my K-6 art curriculum plan. We are required to do this every 4 years. You can see my first blog post about organizing curriculum that I wrote a few years back. I use the curriculum plan as a guide for my yearly planning. If students are interested in one area of art more than another, I tend to adapt my plans. If I have a brilliant idea for something new I want to try with … Read more... →

Engaging process art activities are the foundation of this pre-k art curriculum for children ages 3 and up. Also great for art therapy.

If you are looking for an art rubric for your elementary students, here’s one created with real teacher feedback.

There’s a ton of superb free art instruction out there for kids who are into drawing, painting, sculpting, and other artsy things! Here are our favorites!

Here is the Elementary Art Curriculum Map that all K-4 art teachers in Chelmsford follow. You can click on the picture for an enlarged view National Visual Art Standards BY grade 4 1.1 Use a variety of materials and media, for example, crayons, chalk, paint, clay, various kinds of papers, textiles, and yarns, and understand how to use them to produce different visual effects 1.2 Create artwork in a variety of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) media, for example: 2D – drawing…

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Summer Vacation!!! Usually those words evoke a picture of sun, fun, and relaxation. Well I have the sun and the fun, but relaxing? I would NOT call my summer this year relaxing. You see, I have …