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 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.