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	Arctic Animal Masks: Students are introduced to the sculptures of Alaskan sculptor Melvin Olanna. They create a mask of a northern Alaskan animal, adding texture and features.	Download this lesson plan
	Athabascan Mittens: Students will examine the traditional lifestyle of Athabascan people. They will look at clothing, and the types and materials used for decoration. After looking closely at beading, students will design their own beaded mitten.	Download this lesson plan
	Blueberry Leaf Prints: Students will create note cards by making prints of blueberry leaves. They will use acrylic primary colors, and will gain experience mixing colors. Blueberry Shoe is read and the book’s illustrator, Evon Zerbetz, is feature. The purpose is to bring awareness of a common local plant, and popular children’s book illustrator. Students will experience print making for the purpose of making cards inspired by Evon Zerbetz.	Download this lesson plan
	Children Just Like Me: Each child draws themselves and a favorite place or thing. The pictures are colored with colored pencils, then cut out to make a community class mural or border.	Download this lesson plan
	Color Critters: Students will listen to the story White Rabbit’s Color Book After some practice in mixing primary colored oil pastels in many combinations and discovering new colors, they will create a colorful critter from their practice sheet.	Download this lesson plan
	Henry Moore Figure Sculptures: Students will study the artist Henry Moore who made sculptures of people. They create a simple figure out of paper and clay. These figures include “holes” or negative space, just like the artist’s sculptures.	Download this lesson plan
	Landscapes with David Mollett: Students examine landscapes by Fairbanks Alaska artist David Mollett looking at fore, middle and backgrounds. They paint a landscape demonstrating what they learned.	Download this lesson plan
	Love Those Anenomes: Students look at pictures of sea anemones and discuss radial design. They learn primary colors and then paint a large anemone with a wave-line background.	Download this lesson plan
	Me in the Mirror: Students draw a self portrait using oil pastels. The kit provides a mirror for each student to examine his or her face. They are encouraged to draw the colors and shapes of their unique features. Students look at prints of several portraits and explore the meaning of a “self-portrait.	Download this lesson plan
	Parent and Child Portaits: Students are inspired by American artist, Mary Cassatt. Her family portraits are famous for showing family relationships. Students color chalk pastel drawings to represent their “Parent and Child Portraits.”	Download this lesson plan
	Pezzettino: Students are inspired by Leo Lionniʼs book, Pezzettino, which means small piece in Italian. Students cut and glue patterned paper to make a land or seascape.They stamp and print small geometric shapes to create a creature, and add Pezzettino to complete their art.	Download this lesson plan
	Primary Paint: Shapes, Letters and Numbers Students learn beginning paintbrush technique and practice using two sizes of paintbrushes with primary color tempera cakes. The art of American artist, Jasper Johns offers inspiration as student practice painting using shapes, numbers and letters as the subject matter.	Download this lesson plan
	Rainbow Flower Garden: Students are inspired by Lois Ehlert’s book, Planting a Rainbow. They draw a flower from observation, coloring it with oil pastels. Color blending is introduced. Students graph their drawings on a color bar graph.	Download this lesson plan
	Raven Puppets: Students learn about the significance of Raven in the Tlingit culture and learn the shape “ovoid”. Students “build” a 3-D raven puppet, using common shapes such as rectangle, square, triangle and rhombus. They will use techniques of cutting and folding paper.	Download this lesson plan
	Rock Cards: Students are scientists and artists, looking carefully at rocks and minerals with magnifying glasses for color, texture and shape. Students learn about nature artist Andy Goldsworthy and create their own rock arrangements. They draw these arrangements on printed “rock cards.” These cards can be shared and traded.	Download this lesson plan
	Sea Creatures with Ray Troll: Students create sea creatures in the style of Ray Troll. Oil pastels are used to draw a shape and color with pattern. Students add a patterned border design, name their creature, and view it with 3-D glasses.	Download this lesson plan
	Shape-ka-bobs: Students will learn about textures. They will go on a texture hunt in their room naming textures they find. Then they make rubbings from texture forms, cut them out, and put them on a stick to make a “Shape-ka-Bob.”	Download this lesson plan
	Solstice Sun Collage: Students are inspired by an Inuit Folktale, Raven Brings the Light. After identifying similarities in 4 posters of sun art, students create a paper sun collage with contrasting colors. Students incorporate pattern in the rays of the suns	Download this lesson plan
	Story in the Picture: Children observe Marc Chagallʼs art, “I and the Village Fine.” They are encouraged to share ideas about the story in the picture. Students trace template shapes and add their own drawings and color to create their own story in their picture, in the style of Marc Chagall.	Download this lesson plan
	Sunflowers: Students read book Camille and the Sunflowers, a story about Vincent Van Gogh, and learn of his love for painting sunflowers. Inspired by this, they paint a sunflower of their own.	Download this lesson plan
	Van Gogh Self-Portraits: Students study the self-portraits of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. They look at his impressionist style of painting and create their own self-portrait in tempera paints.	Download this lesson plan
	Van Gogh Trees: Students are introduced to Vincent Van Gogh. They are inspired by his special style of painting trees with curvy lines and bright colors. They create a tree in Van Gogh’s style using oil pastels and textured rubbing plates. They paint over their drawing to create a resist effect.	Download this lesson plan
	"Yaakw" Canoes: Students learn about traditional NWCoast Native canoes. Given the opportunity to look at authentic carved canoe models, children draw pictures of the canoes and add colored rubbings of formline design to enhance the finished drawing.	Download this lesson plan