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For Young Students
Mona Lisa Smiles
Don't let textbooks bore your students. Remind them that learning is fun. Mona Lisa is one in a series of children's books about art and architecture written to engage, educate and entertain youngsters. Mona Lisa introduces children preschool through second grade to Da Vinci's most famous painting using real images of the painting, cartoons, and humor....
For Older Students
Mona Lisa
Great works of art are not beyond the understanding of children. The goal of ARTK12 books is to teach students to look at great works of art and understand what they see. Each book explores one work of art, explains its narrative and symbolic content and sets it in its historical and geographic context. Comic characters lure students....
Fun Projects
Ice-Age Project
This Ice-Age America project includes everything you need (except a pencil and your oven) to make a replica of three Ice-Age spears (12 inches in length) and a Native American axe (also 12 inches). Combine this with the companion books on Ice-Age American natives and you have a complete unit on Ice-Age American Art....