How the Online Lessons Work

Typically a lesson in the classroom consists of an introductory conversation about the artwork, an art project done by the students, and a followup conversation. The online lessons are designed to give anyone the background required to successfully teach one of these lessons. Each lesson consists of a series of screens, with lots of pictures and videos on what do next. The lessons work best when used with our ARTboxes. Here's the typical structure of a lesson, with links to the corresponding parts of the sample lesson:

• Overview - gives an overview of the lesson objectives
• Artist - provides background on the artist and their work
• Discussion - explains the structure and technique of the masterpiece with videos.
• Planning - explains how to plan a lesson and integrate it into the curriculum
• Setup - shows what materials you need for the art projects and how to set them up
• Directions - has videos showing how to do the art projects
• Assessment - has ideas on how to assess student learning after the project
• Resources - provides pointers to books, music and video for further exploration

You can also discover and contribute to what other users do with the content using our wiki.

If you can project, parts of this material can be directly shared with students.

If you have problems accessing the material, review the material on licenses.

You can also learn more about the video here.