Educator Resources
K-12 Lesson Plans
Abstract City Scape
This lesson will focus on student’s ideal city, real or imagined, looking to their local community for inspiration.
Alabama Landscape
This lesson will focus on Alabama’s geographic regions and history providing inspiration to create a landscape.
Art Mobile
This lesson will focus on Alabama’s Native American people pulling inspiration from their culture and lore.
Botanical Print from Observation
This lesson will focus on student’s ability to observe a botanical life cycle, illustrate a unique point of view, then translate that to a linoleum block to create a series of prints.
Capturing Our Stories
This lesson will focus on sharing the student’s story or the story of a family member. Through this lesson, students will gain a better understanding of how to capture a story from a living person, which will be preserved on...
Day of the Dead: A Cultural Celebration
This lesson will focus on student’s knowledge of the Mexican celebration Day of the Dead. Branching off from this knowledge, students will then create a vibrant skeleton.
Design a Habitat
This lesson will focus on student’s learned knowledge of successful habitats. From this knowledge, they will design and illustrate a habitat for an organism of their choosing.
A Ghostly Tale: Art Meets the Written Word
This lesson will use student’s knowledge for storytelling to create a unique narrative or poem from a personal black and white photograph.
Observational Still Life
This lesson will focus on a student’s favorite space at home or school that they can draw from observation then share a narrative of why this space is important to them.
Optical Illusion
This lesson will focus on student’s measuring a grid with a ruler and utilizing coloring and shading techniques to create an optical illusion.