8th Grade Visual Arts Resources

Are you ready for a highly engaging Hispanic Heritage or Day of the Dead project with your upper elementary (and middle school) students? This is the project. Students love this hands-on project! This lesson has it all - high student engagement, multicultural, cross-curricular, and it produces fantastic student artwork for display.

This holiday has become more popular in the United States. Teach your students about this important day in Hispanic culture while giving students a chance to create a unique calavera. This resource includes a fact sheet about Day of the Dead to help explain it to students (& parents or administrators!) who may not fully understand the significance of the Day of the Dead in Hispanic culture. Students grades 3 and up of all skills levels can successfully complete this project.

This resource includes:

• Step-by-step instructions with photos
• Tips for project variations
• Literacy & cross-curricular connections
• Hispanic Heritage Month fact sheet
• Day of the Dead fact sheet (2 pages)

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Saddle up for a Valentine's Day celebration with our Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack! This delightful pack features 8 pages of charming designs centered around classic cowboy elements such as boots, hats, and hearts, perfect for spreading love and cheer in the Wild West style.

Inside, you'll find intricately detailed illustrations of cowboy boots adorned with hearts, hats with romantic embellishments, and heart-shaped lassos to capture your creativity. Each page is designed with care to provide hours of relaxing and enjoyable coloring experience for both kids and adults alike.

Whether you're a seasoned cowpoke or a greenhorn in the coloring world, our

Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack offers something for everyone. Let your imagination roam free as you bring these Western-themed designs to life with your favorite colors and shades.

So round up your crayons, grab your spurs, and get ready to create some heartwarming masterpieces with our Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack. It's sure to be a rootin' tootin' good time for all!

Includes a PDF pack of 8 pages. Some include sayings such as Happy Valentine's Day and Howdy Valentine. There are also options without words.

Practice worksheets about the elements of art - line, texture and form. Students are given some information about each element and then given the opportunity to mimic/practice the element!

Could be a great refresher exercise in class for students, or easily left for a sub assignment when a substitute is present as well. Needs minimal supplies to complete!

Included: 1 PDF for each practice worksheet.

Each element has 2 versions that are included in order to allow students at different levels to practice a variety of skills.

• Color: Practicing making the element of art AND practicing using a variety of color mediums, like colored pencils
• Black and White: Practicing the element of art and practicing using graphite, pen or other grayscale mediums

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Need an awesome Art Unit? I have just the thing for you! This creative Fall/Winter Birch Tree Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. It is best to use watercolor paper for this unit, since it does the best job of absorbing and working with the watercolor paint. However, if watercolor paper is not at your disposal, please find the heaviest white drawing paper you can find. Painter’s Tape is also best for this assignment, but in a pinch, you may use masking tape- although masking tape may need to be stuck to a different surface (shirt/), it isn’t too sticky on the paper. I hope you have as much fun with this artwork as I have! I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

Basic Video Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro gives students a step-by-step lesson to learn the basic skills needed for video editing: Adding and editing files, working with audio, creating titles, and rendering and saving your project. The lesson provides step-by-step instructions and also includes links to tutorials students can use as they need to complete the lesson. Students create a short project as they follow the mini-lessons and then demonstrate their learning through a short creative project at the end of the tutorials. This lesson was created for an 8th grade class, but is appropriate for any age group that are first time users of Adobe Premiere Pro.

Files Included with this Lesson

• Teacher Notes and Resources

• Adobe Premiere Pro Step-by-Step Tutorial

• Basic Adobe Premiere Pro Editing Project Expectations & Rubric

12/29/17: The links to sites with free-to-use video clips has been added to this resource.

Note: This was created for use with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

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Need an awesome Art Unit? I have just the thing for you! This creative Ghostly Self Portraits Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. It is best to use grey newsprint paper if you have it, but if you do not you could use white drawing paper (if you give the white paper a grey-ish look ahead of time). I used pencil to sketch everything out in student sketchbooks and on final copy newsprint paper. I used black crayon OR black oil pastel (depending on grade level) to first outline the major features of the pencil drawing. The older students used oil pastels. After outlining, white crayon OR white oil pastels were used for the self-portrait eyes, and a few other areas. Pattern was a focus throughout the composition whether it showed up on the person or in the background. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

Need an awesome Art Unit? I have just the thing for you! This creative Fish Aquarium Scene was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. For this assignment, I made 4 unique pre-cut fish aquarium stencils that students could choose from and trace on large 18 x 24-inch paper. Students were asked to brainstorm ideas for the background, and what the Fish Aquarium could be sitting on. Students were given lots of fish/aquarium life photos as a resource to draw from. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

This creative Bird’s Eye View Perspective Unit: 3D Forms OR City Scene was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. For this assignment, I asked students to choose a Perspective artwork to complete: the 3D Forms artwork OR the City Scene artwork. Students used a ruler for most of this assignment and learned perspective drawing. Students worked with value or details in their artworks. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.