Teach a well-rounded visual art unit on the grid method using these three drawing-based lesson plans! Designed for high school art or middle school art units, these lessons and art projects introduce the concept of grid drawing. These print & go drawing resources will be the perfect addition to your classroom.

Your students will learn about the grid drawing method through practice sheets, enlarging an image in a group project, and creating a portrait drawing. These art projects and lessons will also encourage group participation in a collaborative project, and test students' understanding through a portrait drawing.

Included in this pack of grid drawing for high school art and middle school art units: 

⭐️Introduction to the grid method

• Lesson plan with big idea, objectives, national standards, supply list, vocabulary, step by step teachers instructions, and more.
• Two printable worksheets for students to use to learn the grid method.
• Introduction to the grid grading checklist
• Viewfinder printout.
• Introduction to the grid method PowerPoint

⭐️Collaborative grid: learning how the grid method can also be used to enlarge an image. 

• Lesson plan with big idea, objectives, national standards, supply list, vocabulary, step-by-step teachers instructions, and more.
• Installation Art and Displaying Art PowerPoint (to build a connection between three dimensional and two-dimensional art and introduce concepts behind displaying artwork)
• PowerPoint teacher notes
• Collaborative grid grading checklist
• Collaborative grid critique worksheet

⭐️Drawing portraits hero art project with the grid method.

• Lesson plan with big idea, objectives, national standards, supply list, vocabulary, step-by-step teachers instructions, and more.
• Hero project PowerPoint
• Hero project critique worksheet
• Hero project grid rubric

⭐️A video demonstrating how to grid an image, a blank sheet of paper, and paper for enlarging a drawing.

You will work through three projects in this high school art or middle school art unit to introduce the grid drawing method and teach students about how to apply it in two different projects.

❤️You students will LOVE interacting with the handouts and assignments that are included in this grid drawing pack. Plus, their drawing skills will improve immensely as they work through the materials. 

Every year I teach my Introduction to Art students how to use the grid method as a drawing tool. It helps give my students who are weaker in their drawing skills a tool to learn how to break images down into lines and shapes to more successfully draw them. 

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What teachers are saying…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Excellent resource for teaching or enriching grid method lessons. Scholars remain engaged and are surprised at how well they are able to draw when they use this method.” - Jenny W.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This resource does so much more than teach the grid method for drawing. It assesses a student's ability to follow directions, a student's fine motor skills across multiple tasks, and a student's resilience and perseverance.” - Morgan B.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Gridding helped build my kids confidence with their drawing skills.  They are now venturing off the grid and doing well!  Thanks for putting these together in a one stop shop.  It definitely helped lighten my workload! Worth every penny!” - Jennifer T.

This lesson plan is also included in my yearlong Introduction to Art bundle. With this pack you don't have to plan a single day of the school year in your Intro to Art class.

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