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Get ideas for cross-curricular connections from art educator Jen Dahl as she shares art lesson plans, ideas, and activities.
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Maker Monday art lesson: Quilling self-portrait
In this lesson, students will learn about the intricate art of paper quilling and use quills to create an Impressionistic…
Maker Monday art lesson: Altered books part 1
Melody Weintraub shares her altered bookmaking lesson for your art classroom in a two-part series. Don't miss part 2!
Maker Monday art lesson: Eco-prints
Learn how to bring this eco-print art lesson into your classroom to teach students how to use rusty things and…
Maker Monday art lesson: Grandparents, gratitude, and creative care
Learn fun, family-centered projects for your art lessons that convey gratitude and joy and build relationships between young and old.
Maker Monday art lesson: Incorporating contemporary art in your classroom
Come learn how to begin the process of incorporating the world of contemporary art into your elementary classroom with art…
Maker Monday: Choosing joy and engaging students with Daniel Bryant
Learn how art educator Daniel Bryant, aka Art Virtue, uses all his positivity, talents, and skills with his elementary students…
Maker Monday: Emotional robots
Art educator Tricia Fugelstad shares her emotional robot lesson covering the color wheel, social-emotional learning, and STEAM concepts.
Maker Monday: Inclusion and adaptation in the art room
In this round-table discussion, outstanding art educators share their best practices for inclusion and adaptation in the art room.
Maker Monday: Filling your art teacher bucket
Learn from Debi West as she shares how you can be inspired, connected, and part of a community that always…
Maker Monday: Best practices for art on a cart
Hear Debbie Scarbrough and Sunni Myers share best practices, popular equipment and supplies, and lesson plans for teaching while using…
Learn about the Online Art Teachers K–12 Service Project
Find out how you can benefit from the Online Art Teachers K–12 Service Project, a world-wide collaboration of art educators…
Social-emotional learning in the art room
Learn how art educator Heather McCutcheon integrates social-emotional learning in her art room through choice-based learning and connections to identity.
Happy birthday, Maker Monday!
Celebrate a year of Maker Mondays with Nasco Education. You'll hear about lesson plans and highlights of the year.
Maker Monday: Social awareness ideas
Art educator Jen Dahl brings you social awareness lesson plans, ideas, activities, book suggestions for your art classroom.
Maker Monday: Books, art, and literacy
Hear about the books art teachers are using to pair art and literacy. Get lesson plans, ideas, and activities for…
Maker Monday: Promoting self-management in the art classroom
Listen as art educator Jen Dahl shares ideas for teaching students self-management techniques for use in the art classroom and…
Class Acts with Kris: Interview with author and educator Cassie Stephens
Popular Nashville art teacher, author, and podcaster Cassie Stephens joins Nasco Education for an exclusive interview. Cassie talks about her…
Maker Monday art lesson: Get creative with Mrs. Jeanne’s painted papers
Learn about an art lesson involving painted paper and collaging developed by author and artist Jeanne Styczinski, also known as…
Maker Monday art lesson: Graphite pencil techniques
Special guest artist Kathi Hanson shares best practices for using graphite pencils. Bring paper and pencil and follow along while…
Maker Monday art lesson: Lunch and learn with the Sandwich Art Dad
David Laferriere, aka The Sandwich Art Dad, talks about how making lunch for his kids grew into an art form…
Maker Monday: Kris’s top 10 art materials list
Kris Bakke shares the art materials she “needs” in her art-making life, including great products and fun lesson plans.
Maker Monday art lesson: Día de los Muertos
Infuse SEL into your art lessons by discussing diversity and cultural traditions when making, seeing, and talking about Día de…
Maker Monday art lesson: Monster mash and self-expression
Bring your paper, pens (or any drawing materials), a mirror, and your imagination to make self-portraits into a monster mash…
Maker Monday art lesson: Hispanic Heritage Month and amate paper
Learn about and celebrate Hispanic heritage, culture, and art by making an adaptation of Mexican amate paper.
Maker Monday art lesson: Hispanic Heritage Month and posters with a purpose
In this lesson for all ages, create a poster with purpose while learning about contemporary Hispanic artist and activist Favianna…
Maker Monday: ACMI safety seals, lesson plans, and art advocacy
Learn how to be sure art materials are safe for kids, about the Art and Craft Materials Institute's safety seals,…
Maker Monday art lesson: Making a mask holder
Art educator Leah Schultz shares how her class made mask holders and talks about how this can be a project…
Maker Monday art lesson: Mod podge head collage and SEL power-up
Kris Bakke and Jenny Kalvaitis from Nasco Education share a cross-curricular collage lesson plan that has a social-emotional learning component.
Maker Monday art lesson: Cardboard art
Explore a cardboard art lesson that has students use critical thinking to figure out materials and then creativity to put…
Maker Monday art lesson: Pop can jewelry
High school art educator Angie Szabo shows how to create jewelry out of aluminum cans and how to adapt the…
Maker Monday: Best practices for the virtual art classroom
Michele Agosto, Director of the Arts at Buffalo Public Schools, shares her virtual art classroom learnings and how to put…
Maker Monday: Social justice book club
Learn how an art educator created a social justice book club, connected it to art curriculum, and how she's meeting…
Maker Monday art lesson: Blind contour drawing
Retired art educator Karen Crosby leads you through a blind contour lesson and talks about how to present the lesson…
Maker Monday art lesson: “The Emotional Color Wheel”
Meet Eric Gibbons, author of "The Emotional Color Wheel." You'll hear about how colors and shapes are related to our…
Maker Monday art lesson: Learn to crochet
Learn from from art educator Leah Keller as she leads you through a beginning crochet project you can share with…
Maker Monday art lesson: Watercolor magic
Learn how to create a take-home watercolor set for each student using tube colors and mint tins and show students…
Maker Monday art lesson: Visual journaling
Art educator Sandee Darden shares how she incorporated visual journaling in her classroom and how it helps students explore the…
Art lesson: Abstract watercolor weavings
This lesson plan is a great way to show how to use art to express yourself. The webinar walks you…
Art lesson: Amazing glue prints
Art educator Tasha Newton and Nasco Education's Kris Bakke demonstrate a lesson plan that uses glue in a new way…
Art lesson: Monet’s “The Japanese Footbridge” and bees
Art teacher and beekeeper Casey Kemper looks at an art lesson for Monet's "The Japanese Footbridge" and discusses watercolor resist…
Art lesson: Ashley Bryan-inspired paper collage
Inspired by artist, author, illustrator, and poet Ashley Bryan, this collage art lesson is an amazing way for students to…
Art and STEAM lesson: Line design into sculpture
Educator Debi West walks through "Line design into sculpture," our most popular art lesson plan. Work along with them and…
Art lesson: Lines galore (basic lines plus more)
Learn from an expert educator how to lead a lesson on exploring lines and introduce the elements and principles of…
Art lesson: Animated trees
Award-winning educator Jen Dahl shares an art lesson where students will learn how to draw trees, talk about emotions, and…
Choice-based vs. traditional learning in the art room — which method is right for you?
Are you wondering if choice-based learning is right for your art room? In this webinar, Dr. Mary Hoefferle leads an…
Maker Monday art lesson: Community circle project
Join art educator Sandy Coleman and Nasco Education’s Kris Bakke for an art lesson that connects your community in a…