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ClipCard: Symmetry Coloring Book

Elementary students work collaboratively to create a coloring book featuring symmetrical holiday scenes.

15 December 2024Elementary
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OK Go Sandbox Animation

High-school students create short six- to ten-second animations and combine them into one longer collaborative work.

15 November 2024High School
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Student Activity: How to Simplify an Image

Many logos are made up of familiar images that are greatly simplified but still recognizable. Simplifying images is a process students can learn—it just requires some practice and experimentation.

15 November 2024High School
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ClipCard: Text Art Animals

Elementary students place text strategically on a digital canvas to form recognizable animals.

14 November 2024Elementary
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Cellphones and Comic Books: Keys to Visual Storytelling

High-school students use their cellphones to take photos from various angles and create their own hand-drawn comic books.

14 November 2024High School
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The All About Me Design Challenge

Middle-school students create a nine-panel digital collage using symbols to represent their likes and interests.

14 November 2024Middle School
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ClipCard: Digital Blending

Middle-school students experiment with various ways to use Adobe Illustrator's Blend tool to create colorful digital art.

15 August 2024Middle School
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Advantageous Avatars

High-school students familiarize themselves with the Adobe Illustrator workspace and various program tools while creating digital avatars.

15 August 2024High School
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Focus In: The Memory Project

An art teacher shares her students’ experiences participating in the Memory Project and its profound impact on developing compassion and empathy.

15 August 2024Middle School
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Digital Art Activism

Empowering students to interact with complicated social issues via the art-making process can unlock their creative potential, increase their engagement, and help them connect with the world around them. Students create digital collages that reflect a social, ecological, economic, religious, or political issue that interests them.

15 May 2024High School
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Contemporary Art in Context: Jen Stark

Multimedia artist Jen Stark shares her brilliantly colored works that draw upon science, math, nature, and spirituality.

14 March 2024Contemporary Art
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Collaborative Learning through Design

In this collaborative choice-based art lesson, students choose one element or principle they are interested in researching and expressing through a nonobjective digital work using Google Drawings.

14 March 2024Middle School