On this page you will find downloadable links to lesson plans I have created:
(If you would like to see my entire Online Teacher Portfolio at Facts.Org please contact me and I will send an access key)

Van Gogh's Sunflowers - In this lesson students already familiar with Adobe Photoshop will explore the work of Vincent Van Gogh and create a digital interpretation of his famous Sunflowers in a Vase.

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Interpreting Art through Music:  In this lesson students work in groups to solve the problem of representing music in a visual context.  The students will analyze a particular style of music and develop a visual language to represent that style, then each student will create a work of art to interpret a particular piece of music from within that musical genre.

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Tropical Haiku:  In this lesson students create their own haiku poetry and then illustrate one of their poems in a sumi-e scroll.  The students work on reading, writing and multicultural awareness while creating an authentic work.  As assessments there are 4 notebook projects, a rubric and the final project:

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The Color Wheel Part 1:  This lesson introduces the color wheel with a short PowerPoint presentation followed by a fun project where the students use frosting colored in the three primary colors to create a color wheel made of frosted cookies. 

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The Color Wheel Part 2:  In this lesson the students work with color harmonics and color mixing by creating a single design and using three different color mixing schemes.  The concept is introduced with a short PowerPoint (listed below) and is assessed with a notebook project, a short quiz, a rubric and the authentic student projects.

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Below are the links to several PowerPoint presentations I created as part of my coursework at Broward College:

PowerPoint Presentations:

Improving Academic Performance Using Cooperative Learning: http://www.slideshare.net/JuicyUniverse.com/cooperative-learning-1816077

The Golden Mean: http://www.slideshare.net/JuicyUniverse.com/the-golden-mean

 Prevent Bullying at School: http://www.slideshare.net/JuicyUniverse.com/prevent-bullying-at-school

 Color Wheel #1: http://www.slideshare.net/JuicyUniverse.com/the-color-wheel-1

Color Wheel #2: http://www.slideshare.net/JuicyUniverse.com/the-color-wheel-2

Culturally Responsive Teaching: http://www.slideshare.net/JuicyUniverse.com/culturally-responsive-teaching

Other Artifacts:

Here is a sample Art Club Blog:  http://artclubart.blogspot.com

Here is a sample Wiki for student, parent and teacher interaction: 

http://artissmart.wikispaces.com