Lesson Plans

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 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.