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Options Explosion

Are you looking to promote creative decision-making in your classroom? Options explosion is a method that can help students brainstorm ideas for art...

Slow Looking and 5 Other Simple Activities to Enhance Your Students’ Ability to Analyze Art

Time is always so precious in education. If you're like other art teachers, analyzing art tends to fall to the wayside. View this Lab resource from...

What Makes You Say That?

Having students view and interpret an image or concept is huge. When we ask learners to justify their thoughts and ideas, learning takes on a new...

Connect, Extend, Challenge

Check out this simple protocol from Artful Thinking, which can help students identify connections to artwork. Make sure to check out other...

Thinking Artfully: Claim, Support, Question

Check out this simple protocol from Artful Thinking, which can help students make and justify choices made in curating work for an exhibit. Make...

How to Co-Create Rubrics with Students

A rubric is an assessment tool that can help learners and educators evaluate and score a piece of work. What happens when a rubric is created...

Looking: Ten Times Two

Check out this simple protocol from Artful Thinking, a great first step in getting students to talk about art. Make sure to check out other protocols...

NY Times Picture Prompts

The illustrations and images from NY Times allow students to interpret art with the help of guiding questions. Scroll to find an image, open it, and...

Sketchnoting: Ideas to Use in Your Classroom

Sketchnoting, or visual note-taking allows learners to create customized notes by combining images, graphics, and structure. This article gives...

Masterpiece Makers Podcast

Check out this podcast provided by Masterpiece Society on how art history can provide students with alternative interpretations of famous works of...

Decoding Style: How to Teach Students to Read an Artwork

Check out this resource, which features a strategy that allows students to practice spotting commonalities in pieces of artwork. 

Using Art History to Examine Modern Day

Check out this TED playlist of ten videos that features great conversation starters about the influence of art. 

Art of Ed: Ultimate Assessment Guide in the Art Room

This comprehensive guide provided by the Art of Education University will help you structure a variety of critiques and assessments in your art...

Question Formulation Technique

Building the skill of asking questions is an essential, lifelong learning skill that allows students to think critically, feel greater self-efficacy,...

Image Brainstorming

Image brainstorming is a thinking protocol that allows learners to make connections through prior experiences. Check out this resource on how to...

Google Forms and "Never Fail" Quizzes

This video demonstrates how to use the "Go to section based on answer" feature of Google Forms to offer students automated, digital re-teaching...

Authentic Art Statement Flowchart

In this short blog post from The Art of Education University, learn how to support your students in writing their own artist statements by using a...

Google Arts & Culture Experiments

Google Experiments, which are projects that push the boundaries of art, technology, design, and culture, have now combined with Google Arts &...

Critique Protocol: Helping Students Produce High-Quality Work

In this video from Edutopia, watch as students use the Critique Protocol to improve their work and the work of others. Utilize this protocol in your...

Applied Digital Skills: Plan an Event

Think about all the planning that goes into prepping a big event—researching, creating to-do lists, assigning tasks to others, and more. What a...