Art Is Fundamental : Teaching the Elements and Principles of Art in Elementary School.

CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Getting Started -- Classroom Strategies -- Practical Considerations -- Room Arrangement -- Water and Cleanup -- Visual Aids -- Materials -- Rules -- Demonstrations -- Describing Folds -- Class Review -- Collecting and Passing Back Projects -- Dealing with Mistakes in Art -- Touching Student Work -- Slower/Faster Students -- General Drawing Suggestions -- Integrating Subjects across the Curriculum -- Displaying Student Work -- General Guidelines for Judging Student Work -- First Year -- Lesson 1: Creating a Portfolio -- Lesson 2: Each Artist Is Unique -- Lesson 3: Introducing the Elements of Art -- Unit One: Color -- Lesson 4: Magic Colors -- Lesson 5: Bernard the Butterfly-Mixing Colors and Symmetry -- Lesson 6: Using a Paintbrush -- Lesson 7: Watercolor Painting -- Lesson 8: Drawing with "Chunk-o-Crayon" -- Lesson 9: Fall Pictures-Creating Tertiaries -- Lesson 10: Introducing Complementary Colors -- Lesson 11: Red Grass and Orange Sky-An Opposites Picture -- Lesson 12: Cut-Paper Complementary Color Project -- Lesson 13: File and Free -- Unit Two: Value -- Lesson 14: Introducing Value -- Lesson 15: Black Crayon on White Paper -- Lesson 16: Using Black and White on Colored Paper- Introducing Tint and Shade -- Lesson 17: Watercolor Fingerprints-Value as a Property of Color -- Lesson 18: Value Collage -- Lesson 19: Winter Picture -- Lesson 20: File and Free -- Unit Three: Texture -- Lesson 21: Introducing Texture -- Lesson 22: Texture Illusion Draw and Fill -- Lesson 23: Real Textures-Paper Fold and Crumble Montage -- Lesson 24: Paper Weaving-How Texture Relates to Pattern -- Lesson 25: A Texture Has a Special Look -- Lesson 26: File and Free -- Unit Four: Shape -- Lesson 27: Introducing Shape -- Lesson 28: Geometric Shape -- Lesson 29: Irregular and Organic Shape -- Lesson 30: Related Shapes.

Lesson 31: Cloud Shapes-Using Imagination -- Lesson 32: File and Free -- Lesson 33: Spring Picture -- Unit Five: Line -- Lesson 34: Introduction to Line -- Lesson 35: Line as Direction -- Lesson 36: A Class Coloring Book -- Lesson 37: Calligraphic Lines and Symmetry -- Lesson 38: Still Life -- Lesson 39: File and Free -- Unit Six: Form -- Lesson 40: Introduction to Form -- Lesson 41: The Captain's Shirt -- Lesson 42: The Story of "Paper Flower" -- Lesson 43: Working with Clay -- Lesson 44: Paper Bag Puppets -- Lesson 45: Contrast and Compare Two Artworks -- Second Year -- Lesson 1: Creating a Portfolio -- Unit One: Color -- Lesson 2: Reviewing Color Theory -- Lesson 3: Mixing Primaries -- Lesson 4: Color Mixing with Watercolors-Intermediates and Tertiaries -- Lesson 5: File and Free -- Lesson 6: Introduction to Color Schemes -- Lesson 7: Monochromatic Color Schemes -- Lesson 8: Complementary Color Schemes -- Lesson 9: Triadic Color Schemes -- Lesson 10: Analogous Color Schemes -- Lesson 11: File and Free -- Unit Two: Value -- Lesson 12: Reviewing Value -- Lesson 13: Charcoal Value 3-D Effects -- Lesson 14: Value as Tint and Shade -- Lesson 15: File and Free -- Unit Three: Texture -- Lesson 16: Review of Texture and Watercolor Resist Crumble -- Lesson 17: Relation of Texture to Pattern -- Lesson 18: File and Free -- Unit Four: Shape -- Lesson 19: Review of Shape-Focus on Positive and Negative -- Lesson 20: Distortion -- Lesson 21: Tessellations -- Lesson 22: File and Free -- Unit Five: Line -- Lesson 23: Review of Line-Using Line to Create the Illusion of Form -- Lesson 24: Calligraphic Lines -- Lesson 25: File and Free -- Unit Six: Form -- Lesson 26: Review of Form and Paper Houses -- Lesson 27: Organic Form Sculpture -- Lesson 28: Contrast and Compare -- Third Year -- Lesson 1: Creating a Portfolio -- Lesson 2: Review of Color and Value Vocabulary.

Lesson 3: Introducing Balance, Formal Balance, and Symmetry -- Lesson 4: Radial Balance -- Lesson 5: Informal Balance -- Lesson 6: Emphasis through Distortion and Contrast -- Lesson 7: Contrast -- Lesson 8: Unity -- Lesson 9: Movement and Rhythm -- Lesson 10: Comparing and Contrasting Artworks -- Bibliography -- Resources -- Materials and Visual Aids -- Magazines -- Index.