Curriculum

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I taught the following lessons to the DeZavala 2-D advanced art students. This  3 week lesson on landscape watercolor painting, covers artists Henri Rousseau, and watercolor masters  Winslow Homer, John  Singer Sargent and others.  The lessons encompass basic watercolor techniques and brush strokes and a guided painting.
• Watercolor Landscapes with an Imaginary Character Power Point
• Watercolor Landscapes Lesson Plan
• Design Notes Review Sheet
• 10 Classic Compositions Handout
• Brush Strokes Exercises Worksheet
  • Brush strokes photo web gallery
• Techniques Exercises Worksheet
  • Techniques photo web gallery
  • Guided landscape photo web gallery
• Watercolor painting tips Handout
• Watercolor Master's Power Point
• Watercolor Landscape Painting Requirements Handout
• Original Watercolor Landscape photo web gallery

I have also taught these lessons to the DeZavala Design and 3-D art students.
• History of Bookmaking Power Point
   • Bookmaking photo web gallery
• Clay Whistles Power Point
   • Clay Whistles photo web gallery
• Paper Mache Sea Animals photo web gallery
• Realistic and Character Faces photo web gallery
• Coil Baskets photo web gallery




• Clay Beetles Power Point
• Lesson plan summary
• Pictures of completed Clay Beetles by 1st and 2nd graders Power Point
• Photo Web Gallery
I taught this lesson at Schulze Elementary to 1st and 2nd graders during my student teaching in 2004.
• Georgia Okeeffe's Giant Flowers Power Point
• Complete lesson plan
• Photo web gallery
• My example - photo web gallery
I taught this lesson to 4th grade students at Schulze Elementary during my student teaching in 2004.
• My Picasso Cubist Self Portrait Power Point
• Lesson plan summary
This is a technology based lesson that I taught to 5th grade students at Schulze Elementary during my student teaching in 2004.
• Designing Medieval Castles power point
• Lesson plan summary
• Photo web gallery
The Schulze 2nd grade students were really excited about this lesson.  We compared Japanese castles to European castles and designed our own.

• The Art of Repousse power point
Other photo web galleries from Schulze Elementary school:
5th Grade Wire Sculptures
2nd Grd. Fall Scene Painting with Q-tips
Handmade books and Paper

Web Quest Game
This is a web site designed by a group of UNT students (including myself) to teach students about the art world.  This site investigates the issue of provenance, the curator, the historian, and the gallery owner, to name a few.
Art Criticism Game
This is a photo of an elaborate art game that I developed for my Elementary Art Education classes at UNT.
Encaustic Art Web page
I taught this lesson and completed a demonstration with the students at The Academy of Irving in February of 2004 during my observations of secondary school.  The web page includes pictures of the students completed artwork.
Storytelling with Kiki Smith Web page
Storytelling with Kiki Smith worksheet
Storytelling with Kiki Smith rubric
This is more of a literature lesson than an art lesson.  It is about how pictures tell stories, but delves into the cultural perspectives of the stories.
I taught this lesson at The Academy of Irving in during my observations of secondary school.  I had to alter the lesson to fit with the encaustic demonstration but would suggest using a different media (drawing supplies) due to the cost of encaustic materials and equipment.
This power point was created as a part of my curriculum as a college student in a technology class at UNT.
Printmaking Power Point
This power point was created to explain the different types of printmaking to a college class.  It could be easily modified to another level.  At the end of the slide show I conducted a show-and-tell.  I had an actual litho stone that I borrowed from the UNT College of Visual Arts, as well as a silk screen, and a copper metal plate.  I brought my own wood relief plates and a plastic lithography plate that I obtained from a local printing company.

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