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Lesson Planning K-12

Art Lesson Plans

Art Canada Institute: Canadian Art Education Teacher Resource Guides

Allen Memorial Art Museum: Carp Kites

Art as Social Commentary (Gr. 10-12)

Art Endurance (Gr. 11-12) 

Art History Goes Graphic (Gr. 7-10)

BC Curriculum: Instructional Samples

Blick: Art Education Lesson Plans

Ceramic Tile Art Project Ideas

Critical Thinking Consortium: Developing Understanding through the Arts-Recognizing an Historic Injustice: Canada's First National Internment Operations, 1914-1920 (Gr. 5-9)

Davis Art:

Emily Carr: Into the Forest Teacher's Study Guide (all grades) by Vancouver Art Gallery (Gr. 3-7)

Exploring Aboriginal Art in Canada (Gr. 9-12)

The J. Paul Getty Museum: Grade-by-Grade Guide to Building Visual Arts Lessons

Kennedy Centre Arts Edge (Gr. 8-12)

Kennedy Center Arts:  Media Awareness (Gr. K-7)

Kozmic Dream

National Gallery of Art: Heroines & Social Media (Gr. 5-6)

National Gallery of Art: Shape (Gr. 2-4)

National Gallery of Canada Lesson Plans (Gr. 8-12)

  • Lessons draw on Canadian themes for all grade ranges (each lesson can be viewed for different grade levels)
  • Includes Group of Seven, Aboriginal Voices in Community Art, Photographic Links, Contemporary Inuit Sculpture, and Cityscapes.

Ontario Teachers Federation Middle School Arts Curriculum (Gr 6-8, progressive plan)

Peeking in the Past with Photographs (Gr. 3)
This lesson plan looks at documentary photography.

Self-Portrait as Who? (Gr. 9-12)

Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Sculpture (Gr. 9-12)

Transformations: Object to Art (Gr. 10)

Unwanted Soldiers (Gr. 9-12)

Visually Speaking: BCATA’s Online Magazine

Related Magazines & Professional Journals

There are a number of professional journals and magazines for teachers in which you can find lesson and activity ideas and other information to inform lesson design:

SchoolArts magazine cover

SchoolArts - An art education magazine "committed to promoting excellence, advocacy, and professional support for educators in the visual arts."