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This lesson guides students through a collaborative “speed-creating” activity where they create quick portraits of their peers using clay, watercolor, markers, or pencils. Students explore identity and community by representing partners symbolically, realistically, or with a mix of both, using their peers’ generative theme lists as inspiration. The activity encourages creativity, observation, and connection-building in a playful, fast-paced way.

This lesson plan is aimed towards grades 6–12 and tasks students with creating a logo and digital advertisement for an original product or business idea. Through this project, students explore graphic design, branding, and the role of visual communication in marketing. Using Canva, they develop skills in layout, color theory, and design tools while connecting art to real-world applications.

This piece explores how technology supports creativity and learning in the art classroom. While technology can feel overwhelming, it offers powerful tools—from research platforms like Pinterest and Google to digital art and graphic design software—that help students create, discover, and share artwork. The author argues that instead of fearing technology, art educators should embrace it and teach students how digital tools expand artistic possibilities.

This lesson plan is aimed towards grades 9-12 and tasks students to create a digital collage that visually represents a movie, song, TV show, book, or similar media. Through this project, students explore composition, symbolism, and storytelling in digital art.

This lesson encourages students to use creativity and critical thinking to create a design based off pre-existing elements. Students will be assigned a random shape and instructed to make it into a face!

This lesson introduces students to pixel-based digital art using Pixilart. They create 8-bit self-portraits, swap with a partner to replicate, and discuss the challenges and impact of pixel art in digital media.

With Haley Kailey M. Jones EDUS 301: Human Development and Learning Professor W. Glen Miller, Jr., Ed.D. Written: 26 OCT. 2024 Last Updated: 19 NOV. 2025 Letter to the Reader Dear Reader, ​ Thank you for taking the time to review and read this case study. In this document, I will be interviewing a 16-year-old adolescent to analyze how her background, developmental context, school performance and more have shaped the person she is today. Through a series of tests, questions,