Alberta Authorized Resource for grade 9 1991-2001.

Kindergarten is different, and we know it! Only Explorations in Art combines a solid foundation in how to use tools and materials with the delight of exploring materials, developing skills and inventing new ways to create. The Teacher's Edition includes: * The critical classroom management techniques that make all the difference in ensuring a successful lesson. * Images of artwork and quotations from students * Interesting facts about tools and art, such as the history of crayons or scissors. * Teaching Tips and Variations/Extensions that include support on safety, differentiated instruction, classroom management, observation and assessment tips, and ways to include the classroom teacher. Each two-page spread in the Teacher's Edition includes: * Lesson: Each Big Book lesson begins with art images, and questions to encourage exploration. * Photos and Illustrations: Photographs and illustrations illustrate teacher technique, classroom seating, students at work, and other helpful content. * Student Artwork: Examples of student artwork and quotations are included throughout. * Assessment: Point-of-use assessment criteria is included for each lesson. The assessment criteria always relates to the lesson objectives. * Studio Exploration: Each Big Book lesson ends with a Studio Exploration. Clear, illustrated examples and directions help children explore, while ensuring an opportunity for individual expression and problem solving. * Variations/Extensions: Variations/Extensions are included with each lesson. Here the suggestion of using warm colors for cutting and cool colors for the background incorporates a color concept into this lesson on cutting. * Scissors History: The Teacher's Edition includes interesting facts for teachers to share with students, including the fact that many consider that Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. * Teaching Tips: Teaching Tips include safety tips; ways to challenge and engage students; support fordifferentiated instruction; classroom management tips, such as giving a fair warning to children before collecting the scissors; games; and ways to include the classroom teacher. * Professional Development: The program includes built-in professional development, including this quotation from an early childhood expert, "Learning to use scissors is one of the important ego-building achievements of early childhood. Children discover that scissors give them instant power to make changes in paperand other materials." Claire Cherry, Creative Art for the Developing Child * Lesson Resources: Children's Trade Books are recommended for each lesson.

Attractive series providing a range of tried-and-tested art lessons; drawing, painting, collage and printmaking activities included. Each art project has an example photograph of a completed project in both the book and on the CD.

Exploring visual arts is a series three books designed to provide teachers with a range of art lessons for a variety of age groups. This series offers effective teaching and activites providing skills, techniques and ideas that satisfy curriculum requirements with classroom-tested art projects.

An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of 'visual culture' that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to fashion, design and the human body. The book is organised around three broad themes, exploring key ideas and debates that have occurred during the last 20 or so years: *the meanings of the term 'visual culture' and of the various practices that form its basis*conceptual approaches to the contemporary analysis of visual culture*the cultural, social and historical contexts informing its production, distribution and consumption.Drawing on a wide range of examples from the last 100 years, the book adopts a cross-disciplinary perspective; it also explores, however, the limits of visual culture as an interdisciplinary field of study, engaging in current debates about the uses and value of the study of visual culture. It will therefore be of value both for readers new to the subject and also for those seeking fresh interventions into contemporary discussions within the field.Features*Accessibly written by a team of experts in the field*Illustrated throughout*Includes chapters on a wide range of visual forms, including architecture and urban design, film, crafts, fashion, design, fine art and the media.

Exploring visual arts is a series three books designed to provide teachers with a range of art lessons for a variety of age groups. This series offers effective teaching and activites providing skills, techniques and ideas that satisfy curriculum requirements with classroom-tested art projects.