Describes an art lesson for second graders inspired by the loss of Princess Diana and Mother Theresa entitled "Princes, Princesses, Heroes and Heroines." Attempts to relate to the children's personal lives and focuses on people who, in the minds of the children, changed or improved the world. (CMK)

Describes an art lesson in which first grade students learned to reproduce the three-dimensional world on two-dimensional paper, creating a landscape through a telescopic perspective. Explains that students first learn about landscapes. Discusses the process of making telescopic drawings. (CMK)

Lesson in which students speculate about why an artist draws an image in a particular manner. Students examine expressive intent and imagery, subject, emotional content, techniques, media, and organization. Highlights four artists, providing art work, background information, activities, and assessment for each: (1) Irvin Tepper; (2) Nancy…

Provides a rationale for why high school social studies students should create children's picture books. Describes the procedure for creating picture books: (1) choosing a topic; (2) collecting information; and (3) writing and illustrating. Provides an example children's picture book. (CMK)

Discusses a project that uses nature to teach students about texture. Explains that students collect items from nature with interesting textures, learn about those items, create a collage using those items, and draw the most interesting part of their collages. (CMK)

Describes a two-part unit for middle school students that focuses on gesture. Students (1) create puppets using oak tag and brass fasteners, (2) trace the gesturing puppets into a drawing, and (3) decorate the puppets they originally created. (CMK)

A study of 144 college students divided into high and low prior-knowledge groups and assigned to four treatment groups found (1) little interaction between prior knowledge of the human cardiovascular system and treatment and (2) significant effects on the drawing test. Terminology and elaboration tests revealed little effects among treatments.…

Discusses the use of analog drawing in an undergraduate interdisciplinary arts course. States that analog drawing uses lines as representation of portraits, problems, or emotions. Explains how analog drawing was used to depict social issues and reports on the interpretations of student drawings. (CMK)

Asserts that all children can draw, but as children get older, a feeling of inadequacy may surface. Explores different drawings done by children and addresses the benefits of drawing for children. Discusses the author's teaching manuals "Drawing is Basic" that encourage children's confidence in their drawing abilities. (CMK)

Describes an assignment that was used in an advanced drawing class in which the students created self-portraits, breaking up their images using planes and angles to suggest their bone structure. Explains that the students also had to include three realistic portions in their drawings. (CMK)

Presents an activity with fifth-grade students called "crazy hat portraits" that is the end product of a sequence of lessons. Describes the beginning lessons and lists what the students learn and the time and materials needed for the assignment. (CMK)

Presents an activity that used the book "The Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister as a means to introducing the project in which first-grade students created a picture of a fish. Explains how the students practice following step-by-step directions by the teacher. (CMK)

Describes a project for middle-school students where they create self-portraits. Explains that the teacher photographs each student who is asked to make an exaggerated facial expression for the picture. To complete the self-portraits, students select an art postcard and "borrow" ideas from the artist's style. (CMK)

This article considers the pedagogical theory of constructivism in the integration of curricular content areas and the infusion of the arts in the context of the recent terrorist attacks. It uses products created by third-grade students to illustrate how drawing and discussion can be used as precursors to narrative composition. (Contains…

Discusses the artwork of Chuck Close, who is well known for his over-sized portraits of fellow artists and anonymous sitters, and the exhibition of his work that premiered at New York's Museum of Modern Art before traveling to other cities in the United States. (CMK)