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Morganton, North Carolina, United States
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Twenty years of experience in Public Art Education in North Carolina, ranging from Pre-K to High School and Community College.
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Preview of Finish the Zentangle

Finish the Zentangle

Create and Educate presents a worksheet for beginning zentanglers that helps build understanding of the process by providing existing designs that students may finish on their own any way they want. Using black ink, the goal is to match the tangles already on the worksheet with tangles of their own creation. Students at all levels can find sucess whether practicing existing designs, incorporating other known tangles or incorporating tangles they have developed themselves. Students excercise reco
Preview of Royal Perspective: One Point Perspective Project using Playing Cards

Royal Perspective: One Point Perspective Project using Playing Cards

This project by Create and Educate uses images students are already familiar with and interested in to inspire a work of art. Students study the traditional symbolism of the cards and use copyright free images (included) to create a Royal face, broken into pieces and receeding back into space through the use of one-point perspective. The powerpoint includes the lesson plan, step-by-step instructions, printable image resourses, symbolism explination and grading rubric. This work is licensed
Preview of Mona Lisa Reading and Response Activity

Mona Lisa Reading and Response Activity

Mona Lisa is one of the most recognisable faces worldwide. Your students will ove reading some of the fascinating facts that have helped her to become so interesting, Including the story of her theft. Useful as Visual Arts, Reading and Social Studies supplemental material, this Create and Educate printable hand-out engages students in reading informational text for comprehension and encourages classwide discussion and writing exercises to promote deeper thinking. The last page of the file is a
Preview of Large Skeleton Scissor Practice

Large Skeleton Scissor Practice

Students love practicing scissor skills and learning anatomy with this 36 inch paper skeleton! The PDF can be printed and reduced to be smaller, but students love the large size. Included are bone name labels that can be added after assembled for a science tie-in.
Preview of American Gothic Critique and Twist

American Gothic Critique and Twist

American Gothic is one of the most parodied paintings ever and it is an artwork that is almost instantly recognizable to all students. Ripe with symbolism and historical context,it is a great painting for an introduction to the fine art criticism process. This 17 page Powerpoint created by Create and Educate goes through the four steps of the critique process with leading questions and thorough explinations. Educators can guide students through the tiniest details of the painting. Covering Nat
Preview of Nigerian Pastel Portraits Project and Lesson Plan, African Art

Nigerian Pastel Portraits Project and Lesson Plan, African Art

Students will learn how Nigerian masks influences contemporary artists. In this Create and Educate powerpoint, students will gain understanding through background information and will see a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a portrait with personal meaning, influenced by Nigerain masks and through the use of pastels.
Preview of Flower Shading Worksheet

Flower Shading Worksheet

Create and Educate presents a worksheet geared towards helping students gain experience with pencil shading. This is a great substitute activity or excellent practice for early finishers! Remember! Providing feedback earns you automatic credits which you can use to discount purchases in this store and others on TpT. Feedback also helps selles crete better products for you and your students, so please rate us!
Preview of Finish The Zentangle # 2

Finish The Zentangle # 2

Create and Educate presents the second in a series of worksheets for beginning zentanglers that helps build understanding of the process by providing existing designs that students may finish on their own any way they want. Using black ink, the goal is to match the tangles already on the worksheet with tangles of their own creation. Students at all levels can find sucess whether practicing existing designs, incorporating other known tangles or incorporating doodles they have developed themselve
Preview of The Artist as a Mathematician

The Artist as a Mathematician

Introduce Students to the concepts of Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Numbers as it applies to Math, Science and Art. This Create and Educate 23 page Powerpoint shows students various examples of the Golden Ratio and introduces how artists use it to create more asthetically pleasing compositions. The final page is a printable worksheet where students can experiment with compositions of thier own.
Preview of Vincent Van Gogh Reading Activity

Vincent Van Gogh Reading Activity

Reading in the art room and artists studies are just as important as art making! This three page printable handout contains two pages of information about the famous painting, The Starry Night. The third page has three QR codes that can be displayed beside artworks and used by tech savy students through a free, downloadable app to gain even more credit line information and facts about the artworks.
Preview of Artistic Dancing People Project and Lesson Plan

Artistic Dancing People Project and Lesson Plan

This is a fun art project for Upper Elementary and Middle School students that teaches design through use of Line and Color and an introduction to Zentangling. Included is a Lesson plan, step-by-step instructional power point and a grading rubric. Also included are student work examples and a printable template for basic figure drawing.
Preview of Sketchbook Warm-up Prompts Workbook

Sketchbook Warm-up Prompts Workbook

This hand-drawn, daily warm-up for ART class is downloadable in workbook form. Prompts ask students to do a written response or a drawing for 20 different prompts. Hand-drawn and colored headings and doodles encourage students to add their own touches with lots of room around and in the margins for doodles and practice drawings.
Preview of Van Gogh Flowers Compare and Contrast

Van Gogh Flowers Compare and Contrast

Add literacy and Art History to your Art classroom. This is a great one day Middle School writing activity meant to increase students exposure to master artists and enhance writing skills. Students will learn to look critically at great works of art and will practice cross-curricular wring skills. This is a 1 page PDF, perfect for printing and distributing worksheet style, or displaying via projector for the whole class to see.
Preview of Art Quotes

Art Quotes

Create and Educate presents a Visual Art, Literacy and Technology cross over lesson. This one or two day lesson can be adapted to any age upper elementary through high school. The download includes links to Common Core and Essential Standards, examples, step- by- step instructions, a student handout and a grading rubric on an adaptable Powerpoint lesson.
Preview of Kandinsky Oil Pastel

Kandinsky Oil Pastel

Using images of Kandinsky paintings, students will re-create an Abstract Expressionist masterpiece while adding their own twist. This assignment is great for beginners to oil pastels and has a high success rate because of it's focus on shape and color rather than representational art. You will need to provide your own Kandinsky source images or all students to research their own.
Preview of What is Paint? Reading and Response Activity

What is Paint? Reading and Response Activity

Create and Educate introduces a lesson on paint that is useful in a Language Arts classroom as well as an Art classroom. Slide 1 of the powerpoint is a page long reading on an 8th grade reading level with key vocabulary underlined. The accompanying powerpoint is full of images and descriptions of all of the kinds of paint referenced in the reading and examples of finished paintings using each; a great reference for students who may not have experience with these different mediums.
Preview of Pen and Ink Practice- Easy

Pen and Ink Practice- Easy

Middle School Art students love this easy introduction to pen and ink drawing. High success rate with this "see and do" practice sheet, however there is room to take this picture to the next level. This activity can be used as a skill-builder for pen and ink technique. It consists of an instruction page, a complete original artwork for reference and a practice worksheet that has main lines already sketched in so that students can focus efforts on pen and ink techniques rather than proportions an
Preview of Catch Up Day Sign

Catch Up Day Sign

A printable ironic sign to let students know what kind of workday they will be having...
Preview of American Gothic Twist Worsheet Only

American Gothic Twist Worsheet Only

An excellent substiture activity or perfect for early finishers! This worksheet takes students step by step through a drawing based on the painting by Grant Wood and enhansed through the student's imagination. This listing is for the one page worksheet included in this full lesson: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Gothic-Critique-and-Twist-1060679 Remember! You feedback earns you credit towards other TpT purchases for this store or others. It also helps sellers improve the res
Preview of Keyboarding Alphabet Review #1

Keyboarding Alphabet Review #1

A good review for students learning basic key strokes. Also suitable for timed typing practice.
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About the store

Experience

Twenty years of experience in Public Art Education in North Carolina, ranging from Pre-K to High School and Community College.

Teaching style

Create and Educate. Visual Art Education for thinkers and doers!

Awards & shining teacher moments

Elective Team Department Head- 2002-Present

My own education history

BS Art Management- Appalachian State University BS Art Education- Appalachian State University

Additional biographical information

I have been making art all of my life, but only teaching it to public school students for twelve years. I have a passion for sharing what I know, be it with my students or with my peers.