7th grade art

In this architecture unit, middle school students learn about famous buildings in the world. Students create one of the buildings with a unique sky.

This unit focuses explicitly on Dale Chihuly: his life, his art. The artmaking pursued in this unit is inspired by one of Chihuly’s most well-known themes: the bowl.

Ocean

Grade Level Duration 4 classes, 80 minutes Materials Graph paper (buy or make your own online here), acrylic Paint, ghost grid posterboard (Poster board featuring a faint, disappearing grid), square dowel cut down to make a stamp (same size as the grids on the poster board), printer, pencil, palette Media Acrylic Paint Lesson Objectives For […]

Can you believe we only have 8 days of school left? Where did this year go? Looking back on all of the projects that we completed, I am very pleased with the quality and quantity of work that my students produced. I truly believe that I have the most talented, wonderfully amazing students in the world! While looking back over all of the projects, I was shocked and a little upset with myself that we didn't do printmaking this year. While in college, I LOVED printmaking. I even did an…

Annie on Instagram: “6th and 7th grade did #surrealism drawings using one point perspective! One of my favorite things about teaching a surrealism project is…”

Dive into 50 engaging 6th-grade art projects to inspire creativity and teach vital art skills in middle school students.

Surreal Rooms and sketchbook assignment #5 are due next class!

This year my school adopted a new schedule. Now, instead of seeing my classes daily for 47 minutes, each day we drop one period. In addition, each class has one weekly “long block” that is 68 minut…

EMS Art on Instagram: “When my 7th grade students started this project I was really scared that it might be too hard for them (@mrs_tfox on TPT for the lesson).…”