{"product_id":"the-art-students-workbook-teacher-edition-a-classroom-companion-for-painting-drawing-and-sculpture-9781463753894","title":"The Art Student's Workbook - Teacher Edition: A Classroom Companion for Painting  Drawing  and Sculpture","description":"\u003cp\u003eNOTICE: This book is the old version of \"The Workbook For Art Teachers\" Amazon # 1940290716 which includes significant updates  links to online video resources  and has about 12% more content than the book here for the same price! If you put 1940290716 in the search field  you will find the updated book.  This is the last 2021 edition by FirehousePublications.com with new compare and contrast worksheets  and updated critique pages. Many lessons in the teachers edition have links to video instruction to enhance learning and understanding. A simplified version of this book is also available in SPANISH (Artes Plsticas - Libro de Trabajo). This workbook for middle and high school was created by a 20 year certified veteran teacher and curriculum writer for classes in drawing  painting  and sculpture designed for grades 6 through 12. Lessons are easily adjusted to accommodate special needs students and material availability in many environments from the school classroom to a fine arts camp program. It includes nearly three years worth of lesson ideas  project samples  vocabulary  worksheets  sample tests  research paper samples  grading rubrics  sketch and note-taking pages  and short creative five-minute writing assignments. This updated edition also includes new clay-based projects  critiquing pages  and daily closure statements to meet district observational requirements. This book is also a helpful aid in fulfilling State and Federal accommodation requirements (504\/ IEP) by providing special needs students additional documented and written material that may be taken home. Every lesson is designed to be personal and expressive fine art. There are NO \"crafty\" projects or \"cookie-cutter\" lessons where everyone has the same outcome. This book stresses a \"divergent thinking processes\" approach and creative problem solving  with an art therapy undertone. Most lesson suggestions may be done in different media to work within tight budgets. Anecdotal evidence from the authors guidance department indicates that students who take his course with this workbook are 50% less likely to fail standardized testing. These are real numbers that can grab the attention of your administration and Board of Education if you have the same results. These lessons combine information from core curriculum and merge it with fine art. Art is the meeting place for all subjects. When we gridwe use geometry. When we make sculptureswe use engineering. When we mix colorswe reveal information about physics. When we create illustrations for storieswe learn about literature. When we review the styles of art from da Vinci to Warholwe teach history. Students not only come to understand the concepts  but use them  and manipulate them for deeper understanding on multiple sensory levels of thinking. This workbook is divided by multicurricula units so that this concrete connection to academic core courses is more easily seen. ALL projects are designed to have successful divergent results  incorporate creative problem solving  and bring relevant connections to students lives. This book is built for student success on many levels from gifted to challenged. This in turn is helpful in fulfilling mandated accommodations so that no child is left behind. We recommend that you pair this book with the student edition of the same name. For those that teach in Elementary school  find our other title  \"Elementary Art Workbook \" ISBN 0983862206 or 0983862214 for the student version.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647065284661,"sku":"ByrdShop_1463753896","price":22.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781463753894.jpg?v=1781687340","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-students-workbook-teacher-edition-a-classroom-companion-for-painting-drawing-and-sculpture-9781463753894","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}