Video-based art curriculum and lesson plans for grades K-8
Arts Attack serves elementary school districts and the education community with art curricula and video-based lesson plans that meet all the standards you expect.
Arts Attack is an award winning art curriculum designed for grades K-8. This process oriented art program utilizes a video-based format and is available online or on DVD.
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Arts Attack Curriculum
Arts Attack is a totally innovative program that brings an entire art curriculum to the K-8 classroom. This award-winning, video-based curriculum is fully validated and specifically designed to meet the needs of every teacher. Also, the best part is that there is no special training requirement. Watch, learn, and execute. The rest is art history.
Available online and on DVD.
Introduction to Arts Attack
This series has 8 products, one for each grade K-6 plus a 7-8 combo. Each product includes a 1-year subscription for 12 of the Arts Attack lessons, and provides the classroom teacher, art specialist or parent volunteer a low cost ($159) introduction to the (more comprehensive) Arts Attack curriculum. Optional art media supply kits for 30 students are also offered.
Available online only
Art in the Afternoon
This smaller version of the award-winning Arts Attack visual art curriculum is designed for those after school programs that do not have the time available to teach a full year’s curriculum, but wish to implement a cost-effective easy-to-teach, high-quality art program as an enrichment activity during the time that they do have available.
Available online and on DVD.
Art Connections Series
The lessons in the Art Connections Series for grades K-6 are each related to history, literature, science, social studies and art history. Each grade level has 4 lessons presented in a video format and supported by lesson plans. The lessons are designed as enrichment activities for students. They can be purchased either as a complete series or by grade-level.
Available online and on DVD.
Great Masters Virtual Museum
This is a great addition to your curriculum
There are at least 10 art images and associated discussion guides per grade level in this program that explores artists from periods ranging from Contemporary to the Renaissance to Primitive art. This online program is included in the Arts Attack Online format and is an optional purchase with Arts Attack DVD.
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What do you get when you purchase Arts Attack?
The Arts Attack Curriculum is a totally innovative program that brings an entire art curriculum to the K-8 classroom on video. A fully validated and award-winning program developed in the classroom, it was designed to meet the needs of every teacher with or without special art training. The curriculum is available in an all new Online format (Arts Attack Online) or in the traditional DVD format (Arts Attack DVD).
Each curriculum comes with 24-27 hands-on lessons per grade.Extremely Teacher Friendly and easy to teach, its developmental/sequential approach to teaching art elements and principles - as well as drawing, technique, artist appreciation, art history, multi-cultural art, media exploration, self-expression, etc. - can always be counted on to get great student results in any classroom environment.
Comprehensive art program
Arts Attack art curriculum lesson plans are the most comprehensive video-based art curriculum available - teaching the art elements and principles, drawing techniques, media exploration, artist appreciation.
Arts Attack art curriculum lesson plans are the most comprehensive video-based art curriculum available - teaching the art elements and principles, drawing techniques, media exploration, artist appreciation.
Well validated
Arts Attack has undergone rigorous review by various State Departments of Education and by the California After-School Resource Center (CASRC), resulting in statewide adoptions of the art curriculum.
Arts Attack has undergone rigorous review by various State Departments of Education and by the California After-School Resource Center (CASRC), resulting in statewide adoptions of the art curriculum.
Broadly accepted nationwide
This K-8 curriculum is widely used in thousands of public schools, private schools, or after-school programs nationwide. Hundreds of districts - both large and small - have adopted the curriculum.
This K-8 curriculum is widely used in thousands of public schools, private schools, or after-school programs nationwide. Hundreds of districts - both large and small - have adopted the curriculum.
Art taught visually
This entire K-8 visually developmental and Sequential curriculum is presented to the students using videos. Students learn visually rather than through textbooks or workbooks. The emphasis is on creative self-expression, learning by doing, and on the development of right-brain learning..
This entire K-8 development and sequential curriculum is presented to the students using videos. Students learn visually rather than through textbooks or workbooks. The emphasis is on creative self-expression, learning by doing, and on the development of right-brain learning.
Cost effective
Arts Attack is a cost effective way to implement a high quality, comprehensive art experience in a variety of settings (from the school classroom to beyond school hours). The online program is not a one time purchase; only the video format is.
Arts Attack is a cost effective way to implement a high quality, comprehensive art experience in a variety of settings (from the school classroom to beyond school hours).
Adaptable lesson plans
Arts Attack art curriculum lesson plans with a video-based format allows a full range of teaching options in grades k-8 - from the art specialist to the classroom teacher to the parent volunteer to the after school facilitator - affording a high quality learning experience for all students in elementary or middle schools.
Arts Attack’s art curriculum lesson plan with a video-based format allows a full range of teaching options in grades k-8 - from the art specialist to the classroom teacher to the parent volunteer to the after school facilitator - affording a high quality learning experience for all students in elementary or middle schools.
Great Masters Virtual Museum
This is a great addition to your curriculum
There are at least 10 art images and associated discussion guides per grade level in this program that explores artists from periods ranging from Contemporary to the Renaissance to Primitive art. This online program is included in the Arts Attack Online format and is an optional purchase with Arts Attack DVD.
Learn moreCost Effective Approach
The Arts Attack curriculum is designed to be a highly cost effective way
to implement a high quality comprehensive art experience in a variety of settings (from the classroom to beyond school hours).
No need for workbooks or text books:
This being a visual program there's no need for workbooks or text books. There aren't any annual leases or licensing fees. The online format has been produced to be effectively taught by the classroom teacher or the parent docent. If your school does not presently have a art specialist, this program is a cost effective way to retain a comprehensive art curriculum with or without an art specialist.
Can be shared by all the classrooms:
This online art curriculum can be shared by all the classrooms within your school. You have the option to purchase extra teacher’s manuals for a small fee, giving each teacher their own manuals. Schools that purchase a second curriculum will be offered a discount.
Art supplies are simple and affordable:
The art supplies are simple and affordable. Many schools conduct year end art shows to serve as a fundraiser(s) to purchase art supplies. The teachers manual shows you how to conduct your own art show. The training will allow you to view an art show.
Saving even more:
Highly affordable, the price per student is under $5 per year. If your school is larger than 50 students per grade you'll be saving even more.
We have done our best to design Arts Attack to be one of the best investments your school can make when you consider the impact it will have on your students’ life and performance.
Click here to see Why Art MattersArts Attack uses a process-oriented teaching approach with a strong emphasis on right-brain learning and development. Its goal is to not only develop art skills and techniques, but also to develop student creativity and visual problem-solving and communication abilities. p In each K-8 grade level, there are between 24-27 hands-on lessons per grade covering all the art element.
Background and helpful information
The first part of each Teachers’ Manual contains the following helpful guidelines for teaching the Arts Attack program:
- Arts Attack Program Components
- Program History & Background
- Art Concepts Taught in the Program
- The Artists Studied in the Program
- How to Visit an Art Museum
- The Scope and Sequence of the Program
- Teaching the Arts Attack Program
- What is Art Criticism?
- The Great Masters Virtual Museum
- Discussing Art Prints
- Art Prints Shown on the Videotape Lessons
- Student Evaluation and Validation
- How to Give an Art Show
- How to Start an Art Program
- Lesson Objectives
- List of Supplies Required for the Program
Each video lesson is taught in the following manner:
- The required materials are displayed.
- Art prints, art objects, examples, onlocation footage, etc. are variously used to provide motivation and to stimulate student interest, ideas and concepts.
- Where appropriate, warm-up exercises are conducted.
- The lesson is demonstrated and taught.
- Students in a classroom setting are shown doing and interpreting the lesson.
- A variety of final artworks created by students on the video are displayed.
Detailed Lesson Plans
Each lesson plan in the Teachers' Manual addresses the OBJECTIVES and VOCABULARY for the lesson, CONCEPTS taught in the lesson, the MATERIALS required, the PROCEDURE steps for teaching the lesson, and ASSESSMENT guidelines. Where helpful, especially in the many right-brain contour drawing lessons, WARM-UP EXERCISES are included. For all “Artist Appreciation” lessons (see example above center), a full CHRONOLOGY of the artist is included. In addition, many of the lessons (see above right) have DRAWING AIDS that the teacher may duplicate to provide visual information for students; and some also have EXTENSIONS or CONNECTIONS to other subjects, for a more in-depth treatment of the subject.
The Student Assessment Component
Student Assessment guidelines for class discussion are inserted after every four lessons at the elementary level. For the Middle School levels, assessment guidelines and/or exercises are given after each lesson. The Arts Attack approach to student assessment, based on long experience of what gets results, is to focus on validation and positive reinforcement, while at the same time providing a forum for learning through self critique and teacher/class suggestions.
The Great Masters Virtual Museum
The Art Print Program provides commentary, analysis and connections to a total of 90 great works of art, grouped into 9 Portfolios of 10 works each - 1 for each grade level (K-8). The front of each Art Print Guide (see below) contains background information for the teacher: a small black-and-white picture correlating to the (full color) art print, biographical information on the artist, and information on the artwork – such as the historical period, art style, history, culture, etc.
The back of each laminated Art Print Guide offers questions for class discussion intended to develop the student’s ability to understand, to critique, to compare, and especially to appreciate the work of art. It also contains suggestions for related activities that often establish connections with other school subjects (language arts, history, social studies, music, dance, drama, etc.).
Introduction to Arts Attack
What do you get when you purchase Introduction to Arts Attack?
The Introduction to Arts Attack Curriculum is a smaller version of our Arts Attack Program. This program has 8 products, one for each grade K-6 plus a 7-8 combo. Each product includes a 1-year subscription for 12 of the Arts Attack lessons, and provides the classroom teacher, art specialist or parent volunteer a low cost ($159) introduction to the (more comprehensive) Arts Attack curriculum. To help minimize your planning and preparation, a 30-student optional art media supply kit customized for each grade level is also available.
Introduction to Arts Attack brings 12 innovative, fun and video-based art lessons, as well as a digital art image program, to the elementary or middle school classroom for a full year. A smaller version of the award-winning Arts Attack Online curriculum, this fully validated program is available in the all-new online format and is designed to meet the needs of every teacher with or without special art training.
Each curriculum comes with 12 hands-on Online lessons per grade.Extremely Teacher Friendly and easy to teach, its developmental/sequential approach to teaching art elements and principles - as well as drawing, technique, artist appreciation, art history, multi-cultural art, media exploration, self-expression, etc. - can always be counted on to get great student results in any classroom environment.
Art In The Afternoon
Overview of the afterschool curriculum.
Art in the Afternoon is...
...a smaller version of the award winning Arts Attack visual art curriculum. It is designed for those afterschool programs that do not have the time available to teach a full year’s curriculum, but wish to implement a cost-effective easy-to-teach, high-quality art program as an enrichment activity during the time that they do have available. Its focus is on teaching the art elements and principles, drawing techniques and creative self-expression, whilst also addressing such subjects as learning and working in the styles of the masters, exploring a variety of media, art history and multicultural art. Art in the Afternoon is available in the all new Online format, as well as in the traditional DVD format.
Like Arts Attack, which is successfully taught in thousands of classrooms...
...by art specialists, classroom teachers, parent art docents and/or after school staff members, Art in the Afternoon is an easy-to-teach video-based art curriculum developed for use in the elementary and middle grades - K-8. Art in the Afternoon teaches 12 lessons per grade level, a carefully selected subset of the 24-27 lessons in the Arts Attack visual art curriculum.
Upgrade capability
Art in the Afternoon can easily be converted to the full year Arts Attack visual art curriculum. A conversion package consisting of 12-15 additional lessons with a more comprehensive teachers manual is available for those who purchase the Art in the Afternoon program and then decide, at a later date, that they wish to convert to a full year’s visual art curriculum.
What makes Art in the Afternoon ideally suited for After School Programs?
Easy to teach curriculum:
The program insures great results, even from staff with little or no art background.
Easy to implement:
It comes with Reference Guides for both Site Coordinators and Teaching Staff, as well as a two-hour Staff training video.
One-time purchase or 5-year subscription:
There are no recurring costs such as student workbooks or textbooks. All teaching and motivating is done using videos.
Minimal preparation time:
The manuals and videos contain everything a teacher needs including warm-up exercises, drawing aids, and artist chronologies.
Materials are simple and inexpensive:
They are clearly summarized in the manual and shown on the video for each lesson.
Highly motivational:
Arts Attack utilizes visual imagery and video visits to peer-group classrooms to inspire students to achieve at a high level.
Great Masters Virtual Museum
This is a great addition to your curriculum
There are at least 10 art images and associated discussion guides per grade level in this program that explores artists from periods ranging from Contemporary to the Renaissance to Primitive art. This online program is included in the Art in the Afternoon Online format and is an optional purchase with Art in the Afternoon DVD.
Learn more
Arts Attack
has recently undergone an extensive detailed evaluation by the California After School Resource Center. This resulted in the CASRC recommending Arts Attack as a high-quality reviewed resource for after school programs in California schools. More information is available on the CASRC website:
www.californiaafterschool.orgComprehensive, challenges students:
This hands-on K-8 developmental and sequential program teaches all the elements and principles of art, drawing technique, working in the style of great masters, exploration of a variety of 2 and 3 dimensional media, self expression, art appreciation, art history, multi-cultural art and more – at every grade level.
Increases student's self-esteem:
Feedback from hundreds of teachers has always emphasized the increased self-esteem and self-confidence that students develop as they work through their projects. IT’S FUN: Students have a great time as they discover that they can achieve results far beyond what they thought they could produce.
Develops creativity:
Arts Attack teaches to the right side of the brain with a primary objective of developing overall creativity, intuition, visual thinking and problem solving skills – benefits that will last a lifetime.
Program Components
The Video Package:The primary teaching tool in the program comprising 12 lessons in either Online or DVD format is designed to be shown directly to the students. Every lesson follows a similar format and is taught in the following manner:-- The materials required for the lesson are displayed.
- Art prints, art objects, examples, on-location footage, etc. are used to provide motivation and to stimulate student interest, ideas and concepts.
- Where appropriate warm-up exercises are presented.
- The lesson is demonstrated and new techniques are taught.
- Students in a classroom setting are shown working through the lesson in a variety of ways and with a range of skills.
- A sampling of the complete art projects from the students on the video are displayed.
The Teacher’s Manual:
The focus of the Teacher’s Manual are the lesson plans (including warm-up exercises, drawing aids and artist chronologies) which support and summarize the lessons taught on the videos.
The manual also contains:-
- Teaching tips and suggestions
- Lesson objectives
- A summary of all of the supplies required
- Guidelines for a visit to an art museum and giving a year-end art show
- A glossary of art terminology and a bibliography
Designed to be used by staff personnel whose art education background ranges from zero to extensive, the manual clearly and simply communicates the goals, concepts, materials and processes for teaching each lesson.
Quick-reference Guides for the after school site coordinators and the teaching staff.
A training video for initial training and for training new staff each year.
Art Connection Enrichment Series
The lessons in the Art Connections Series for grades K-6 are each related to history, literature, science, social studies, and/or art history appreciation. Each grade level has 4 lessons, presented on video format and supported by lesson plans. The lessons are designed as enrichment activities for students with a good background and understanding of art elements, principles and techniques such as taught in the Arts Attack curriculum (or equivalent). They can be purchased either as a complete series or by grade-level.
Below are examples of student artwork from this enrichment program:
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Grade 5 - Literature & History
Endangered Species - Polar Bears Grade 4 - Science
The Westward Movement Grade 4 - History
Animals in Clothes Grade 1 - Literature
Mother and Child Grade 2 - Art History and Social Studies
