Teaching Artfully

This is a document I created to process and document the new assessment tasks and curriculum for the Diploma Programme Visual Arts course while I was in IB training. It includes new versions of the diagrams presented in the guide as well as a one-pager for each assessment. Lovingly illustrated and simplified only where possible.

Take notes about Visual Note Taking - meta! 🧠✨ Help your students develop powerful thinking and organizational skills with this engaging visual notetaking lesson. Perfect for any subject, this resource teaches students how to use a variety of visual tools to generate and organize their ideas. I use this as a template to walk students through the process of taking visual notes and discuss the strategies I have developed as a note taker. I start with the central concept in the middle, then bran

🍁 Twin Leaves Challenge: A Realistic Painting and Observation Lesson 🎨 This illustrated lesson plan is designed for art teachers looking to engage students in a fun, challenging exercise focused on realistic painting, close observation, and accurate color mixing. 🌟 Activity Overview The Twin Leaves Challenge is a unique project where students use two leaves of similar shape and size. They prepare one leaf with gesso (or white acrylic paint) to create a blank canvas, and then use the seco

Bring a touch of creativity and hands-on fun to your art classroom with this hand drawn lesson plan for creating a functional ceramic palette. Perfect for middle or high school students, this project guides them through the process of designing, building, and glazing their own unique clay palette. This lesson is designed to be student-friendly and provides clear, step-by-step instructions. Students will learn essential clay techniques, including rolling out slabs, creating coils, and the "scratc

Accordion House- One page illustrated lesson sharing how to make an accordion book house for artists to illustrate.

This is a fun and playful game I like to play as a warm up. Students pass a page around a table adding a different feature to each one creating a collaborative portrait.