Describes how junior high school students in Arizona combine what they have learned in ceramic history class with ceramic production skills to create their own personal ceramic heads in their images. (KM)

This fifth article in a series on children's art discusses art expression and art teaching in the unpredictable and chaotic years of early adolescence. (SJL)

The author suggests collage with black and white paper as a simple project for teaching shape and visual design. (SJL)

Junior high school students studied the cultural uses, symbolic meanings, and general physical forms of tombs and tombstones and then used basic slab building techniques to construct large clay grave markers. (RM)

Six lesson plans can help junior high school students learn about concrete and abstract images. Students draw human figures, identify concrete and abstract images in words and paintings, draw concrete images from abstractions, and make paintings of positive, abstract concepts using concrete imagery. (AM)

The author describes how her eighth-grade class created food packaging designs parodying actual supermarket products. (SJL)

Described is the wild fowl carving, an arts project in the Environmental Arts Program of New Providence, New Jersey. Projects included ducks, decoys, and shore birds. (KC)

Outlines procedures for a junior high art project in making ceramic masks, which may be tied in with the study of mask-making cultures. (SJL)

Art students must know and understand the media with which they are working. Techniques used to help junior high school students gain mastery of art materials are discussed. With control of the materials anything is possible, including creativity. (RM)

Art teachers at the middle school or junior high school level usually find themselves in a program teaching ceramics. The most essential tools needed for a ceramics class are discussed. Different kinds of clay are also discussed. (RM)

How to make masks with plaster bandages. A simple, safe and high motivation project for the junior high level. (RB)

The author describes how he impersonated Michelangelo while presenting a Renaissance art unit to his seventh- and eighth-grade class. (SJL)

Describes an art project in which junior high students are producing a 16mm animated cartoon using stop-action filming of handmade plastic figures on a built-to-scale set. (SJL)

In this art activity gifted students, ages 10 to 13, learn about internal and external rhythms and make a painting of an internal rhythm. The lesson can be expanded with a discussion of Kandinsky, Pollock, and other painters who have painted sound or have demonstrated rhythms. (RM)

Intermediate and junior high school art students learn to create vertical stripe designs in this introductory lesson which teaches about complementary colors, value contrast, symmetry, and texture. (RM)