Part One

*This page still needs a lot of fine-tuning!

Unit 4: A World of Art and Artists

• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 15: Interpretation: There Is More to It Than Meets the Eye, pp. 200-205
• Lesson 1: Mysteries of Long Ago
• Studio 1: Create a Cave Painting (Variation: Making Elemental Drawing Materials)
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 18: Islands of Time I, pp. 244-246
• Lesson 2: Art of Ancient Egypt
• Studio 2: Design a Symbolic Throne
• Studio: Draw Like an Egyptian
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 18: Islands of Time I (Egypt), pp. 246-249
• Lesson 3: Art of Ancient Greece
• Studio 3: Make an Olympic Poster
• Studio: Three Columns
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 18: Islands of Time I (Greece), pp. 250-253
• Lesson 4: Art of Ancient Rome
• Studio 4: Design a Model with Arches
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 18: Islands of Time I (Rome), pp. 254-258
• Lesson 5: Art in the Middle Ages
• Studio 5: Make an Illuminated Storybook
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 18: Islands of Time I (The Middle Ages), pp. 259-265
• Meet the Artist: Diego Rivera
• Look and Compare: Faces of Motherhood
• Lesson 6: Architecture in the Americas
• Studio 6: Design a Mayan-Style Movie Theatre
• Lesson 7: The Art of Renaissance Europe
• Studio 7: Create a Renaissance-Style Portrait
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 18: Islands of Time I (The Renaissance), pp. 266-273
• Lesson 8: Early Eastern Art
• Studio 8: Make a Banner
• Studio: Tie-Dye Shibori Vessel
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 16: Non-Western Art, pp. 206-223
• India, pp. 206-211
• Southeast Asia, pp. 212-218
• Studio 16.1: A Watercolor Wash Landscape
• Studio: Cat Painting (China/Shen Quan), Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 56-59
• Japan, pp. 219-223
• Sea Print (Hokusai), Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 12-15
• Additional Reading:  The Visual Experience, Chapter 16: Non-Western Art II, pp. 224-243
• Islam, pp. 224-228
• Studio: Sparkly Tiles, Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 84-87
• Africa, pp. 230-233
• African Masks, Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 24-27
• Pre-Columbian, pp. 234-237
• North America, pp. 238-243
• Studio: Aztec Warriors
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 19: Islands of Time II, pp. 274-305
• The 1600s and the Baroque Style, pp. 275-279
• The Enlightenment, Rococo, and Neoclassicism, pp. 279-281
• Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post Impressionism, pp. 283-288
• The Industrial Revolution; Architecture: Frame Construction, pp. 288-289
• Art of the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism), pp. 290-297 (See projects below)
• Architecture of the First Half of the Twentieth Century, pp. 298-299
• Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century, pp. 300-302
• Studio: Splatter Painting (Pollack), Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 80-83
• Architecture of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century, p. 303
• Postscript: The Post-Modern Era, pp. 304-305
• Lesson 9: Modern Western Art
• Studio 9: Create an Abstract Collage
• Studio: Reptile Relief (Kandinsky), Dynamic Art Projects, pp. 29-30
• Lesson 10: Modern Global Art
• Studio 10: Create a Ceremonial Sculpture
• Exit Through the Gift Shop: Banksy/Street Art
• Portfolio Project: Create a Clay Vehicle Create a Free Form Vessel

Unit 5: Subjects and Styles Lesson

• Lesson 1: People as Subjects
• Studio 1: Create a Wire Sculpture
• Lesson 2: Proportion and Faces
• Studio 2: Draw a Self-Portrait
• Studio: Modigliani Inspired Self-Portraits (Stretched Proportions)
• Lesson 3: Animals as Subjects
• Studio 3: Make an Animal Vessel
• Lesson 4: Still Life as Subject
• Studio 4: Create a Cubist Still Life
• Studio: Still-Life Closeups (Cezanne), Drawing and Painting, pp. 20-21
• Studio: Artist's Studio (Vuillard), Discovering Great Artists, p. 55
• Lesson 5: Landscape as Subject
• Studio 5: Draw a Pointillist Seascape
• Meet the Artist: Miriam Schapiro Pablo Picasso
• Studio: Picasso-Inspired Soft Sculpture
• Studio: Picasso Masks
• Studio: Fractured Friend (Picasso), Discovering Great Artists, p. 70
• Studio: Clown Collage (Picasso), Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 20-25
• Look and Compare: Outdoor Sculpture
• Lesson 6: Impressionism
• Studio 6: Draw Like an Impressionist
• Studio: Mini "Monets"
• DVD: The Impressionists
• Lesson 7: Expressionism
• An Introduction to Fauvism: Matisse and Derain (video + art projects)
• Studio 7: Paint in Fauve Colors
• Studio: Paintings Like Stained Glass (Rouault), Drawing and Painting, pp. 46-47
• Lesson 8: Surrealism
• Studio 8: Create a Surrealist Painting
• Lesson 9: Pop Art
• Studio 9: Make a Pop Art Sculpture
• Studio: Comic Dots (Lichenstein), Discovering Great Artists, p. 102
• Abstract Expressionism Unit: Action Painting and Color Field (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler)
• Portfolio Project: Paint in Your Individual Style

Unit 6: Expression and Meaning

• Lesson 1: Murals Tell Stories
• Studio 1: Create a Mural for Your School
• Lesson 2: Mosaic Expression
• Studio 2: Design a Mosaic Mural
• Lesson 3: The Art of Assemblage
• Studio 3: Create a Combine Painting
• Studio: Assemblage Art
• Lesson 4: Expressive Points of View
• Studio 4: Create an Abstract Cityscape
• Meet the Artist: Georgia O'Keefe
• Studio: Close-Up Flower Painting (O'Keefe), Discovering Great Artists, p. 86
• Studio: Petal Collage (O'Keefe), Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 76-79
• Look and Compare: A Change of Styles
• Lesson 5: Expression Through Symbols
• Studio 5: Create a Totem
• Lesson 6: Maks for Expression
• Studio 6: Create a Papier-Mache Animal Mask (Variation: Mexican "Tona" Animal Masks)
• Lesson 7: Expression Through Humor
• Studio 7: Create a Caricature
• Lesson 8: The Art of Industrial Design
• Studio 8: Create a Model for a Prototype
• Lesson 9: Graphic Design as Expression
• Studio 9: Create a Poster Portfolio
• Studio: Even Poster (Toulouse-Lautrec), Discovering Great Artists, p. 52
• Project: Create a Found-Object Sculpture

• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 20: Criticism and Critics, pp. 308-311
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 21: A Critical Method, pp. 312-323

This is a very rough draft of my plans for art next year, but I thought I'd go ahead and post them just in case someone finds them useful. First, I decided to go with a proper textbook for art, to help keep myself focused more than anything. After much deliberation, I chose Scott Foresman Art 6 as our spine (preview here) because it seemed to be the most appealing option, though it's ridiculously hard to find information about any of the art textbooks online.

After receiving the books, I also decided to order an inexpensive older (2nd edition) copy of The Visual Experience because, while it's more dry and textbook-like, it includes a lot of information that the Foresman book does not and will be helpful as a supplement. I'm going to try to use these books over the course of two years, and thus have added in a lot of extra art projects (and likely, will be adding many more).

My goal is that we'll do art at least 2-3 days per week, saving Friday as an "open studio" day to experiment with new techniques and/or finish up other projects. I'm also thinking of implementing a 15-20 minute period for sketching every day. Other supplements that we'll be using are included on the blog sidebar - books on technique are here, along with my supply list.

Introduction

• The Visual Experience, Chapter 1: Seeing, Wondering, Enjoying, pp. 3-9
• The Visual Experience, Chapter 2: When Is It Art?, pp. 10-17
• The Visual Experience, Chapter 3: Describing What You See, pp. 20-25

Unit 1: The Elements of Art

• Lesson 1: Line
• Studio 1: Create a Contour Drawing (Variation: Blind Contour Drawing)
• Hi-Res Matisse Drawings
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 4: Line, pp. 26-39
• Studio 4.1: Varieties of Line
• Studio 4.2: Expressive Line Drawings
• Studio 4.3: Contour Lines
• Studio 4.4: Hatch and Crosshatch (Variation: Sketching and Hatching, Drawing and Painting, pp. 22-23)
• Studio 4.5: Lines Express Feelings
• Studio: Straight Line Design (Mondrian), Discovering Great Artists, p. 61
• Studio: One Line Designs (Klee), Discovering Great Artists, p. 62 (Variation: One-Line Drawing, Drawing and Painting, pp. 30-31) 
• Studio: Mixed Media Lines (Stella), Discovering Great Artists, p. 64
• Lesson 2: Shape
• Studio 2: Create with Shapes
• Studio: Seeing Shapes Still-Life (Cezanne), Discovering Great Artists, p. 48
• Studio: Painted Victorian Homes
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 5: Shape, pp. 40-43 
• Studio 5.1: Reversible Drawings
• Studio 5.2: Reversible Patterns
• Lesson 3: Form
• Studio 3: Create Clay Forms
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 5: Form, pp. 44-55
• Studio 5.3: Foreshortening
• Studio 5.4: Distance
• Studio 5.5: Sculpting without Seeing
• Lesson 4: Space
• Studio 4: Change Space with Shapes
• Studio: Graphite Embossing 
• Studio: Abstract Cityscape (Klee), Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 10-12
• Stusio: Painting Around the White (negative/positive space), Celebrate Your Creative Self, pp. 14-15
• Lesson 5: Space and Distance
• Studio 5: Draw with Perspective
• Studio: Simple Perspective with the Artist's Grid Canvas
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 7: Space, pp. 74-91
• Studio 7.1: Depth in Collage
• Studio 7.2: Identifying One-Point Perspective
• Studio 7.3: Applying One-Point Perspective
• Studio 7.4: Identifying Two-Point Perspective
• Studio 7.5: Applying Two-Point Perspective
• Studio 7.6: A Landscape with Aerial Perspective
• Meet the Artist: Vincent van Gogh
• Van Gogh Resources
• Van Gogh: A Brush with Genius (Amazon Instant Video)
• Studio: Van Gogh Clay Plaque
• Studio: Painting Like Van Gogh, Drawing and Painting, pp. 48-49 
• Look and Compare: An Artist's Style
• Lesson 6: Value
• Studio 6: Create a Value Drawing
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 6: Value, pp. 57-61
• Studio 6.1: Value Contrasts
• Lesson 7: Color
• Color Wheel Lesson Plan
• Studio 7: Paint with Warm and Cool Colors (Alternative: Warm/Cool Weaving Paintings)
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 6: Color, pp. 62-69
• Studio 6.2: Related Colors
• Studio 6.3: Monochromatic Colors
• Studio 6.4: Mixing Dull and Bright Colors
• Studio 6.5: Matching Colors
• Studio 6.6: Warm and Cool Colors
• Studio: Color Contrast Circles (Kandinsky), Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 52-55
• Studio: Mean Green (Interpreting the Emotion of Color)
• Mark Rothko (Color as an instrument for conveying emotions)
• Studio: One Color Painting (Picasso), Discovering Great Artists, p. 69 (Variation: Analogous Arrangements, Drawing and Painting, pp. 56-57)
• Studio: Magic Squares (Klee; mixing intermediate colors), Drawing and Painting, pp. 50-51
• Studio: Surprising Colors (Gauguin), Discovering Great Artists, p. 51 
• Palettes of the Masters: Gauguin
• Playing with Color Theory
• Studio: Story Color Collage (Matisse), Discovering Great Artists, p. 58
• Lesson 8: Color and Colorists
• Studio 8: Paint in Complementary Colors
• Studio: Color Scramble
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 6: Color, pp. 69-73
• (A fascinating look at the palettes of famous artists can be found here.)
• Lesson 9: Texture
• Studio 9: Create a Scene to Show Texture
• Studio: Texture Critters
• Studio: Watercolor Texture Casts
• Studio: Berthe Morisot: Texture Paints, Discovering Great Artists, p. 42 (We'll be doing a variation of this project, using Golden's Gel Mediums mixed with acrylics instead of tempera as suggested in the book)
• Studio: Painting on Textured Surfaces, Celebrate Your Creative Self, pp. 23-37
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 8: Texture and Movement (Texture), pp. 92-97  
• Studio 8.1: Simulated Textures
• Studio 8.2: Textures in Clay
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 8: Texture and Movement (Movement), pp. 98-107
• Studio 8.3: Suggesting Movement in Clay
• Studio 8.4: Movement in a Comic Strip
• Studio 8.5: Make a Storyboard
• Studio: Resist in Motion (Degas), Discovering Great Artists, p. 40 (See also: The Dancers and Degas)
• Portfolio Project: Paint a Colorful Landscape
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 9: Analyzing What You See, pp. 110-115

Unit 2: The Principles of Design

• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 10: Design, pp. 116-122
• Quilted Work (Ringgold), Discovering Great Artists, p. 104
• Lesson 1: Balance
• Studio 1: Draw to Show Balance
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 10: Balance, pp. 122-127
• Lesson 2: Emphasis
• Studio 2: Draw with Emphasis
• Lesson 3: Proportion
• Studio 3: Draw with Altered Proportions (Variation: All Out of Proportion, Drawing and Painting, pp. 26-27)
• Lesson 4: Pattern
• Studio 4: Show Pattern in Clothing
• Studio: Line, Pattern and Color Collage (Bearden), Drawing and Painting, pp. 28-29
• Studio: Patterned Interiors (Matisse), Drawing and Painting, pp. 54-55
• Studio: Crazy Quilt (Klimt), Dynamic Art Projects, pp. 98-99
• Meet the Artist: Henri Matisse
• Studio: Colorful Collage, Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 40-43
• Look and Compare: The Art of the Everyday
• Lesson 5: Rhythm
• Studio 5: Create Op Art
• Lesson 6: Unity
• Studio 6: Create a Unified Design
• Lesson 7: Variety
• Studio 7: Use Variety in a Drawing
• Portfolio Project: Paint a Still Life

Unit 3: Media and Methods

• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 11: Introduction to Media, pp. 130-133
• Lesson1: Drawing, pp. 108-109
• Studio 1: Create a Gesture Drawing
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 12: Two-Dimensional Media, pp. 134-136
• Studio 12.1: Contrasts in Chalk Drawing
• Lesson 2: Painting
• Studio 2: Paint a Landmark
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 12: Two-Dimensional Media, pp. 137-142
• Studio 12.2: Watercolor Washes (Variation: Oil Pastel Resist, Drawing and Painting, pp. 40-41)
• Studio 12.3: A Tempera Painting
• Studio: Paul Klee Landscape (watercolor techniques), Dynamic Art Projects, pp. 18-19
• Lesson 3: Printmaking
• Studio 3: Create a Relief Print
• Studio: Flexi-Cut Collagraph
• Studio: Papier Collé Printmaking (Georges Braque)
• Studio: Tempera Monoprint (Mary Cassatt), Discovering Great Artists, p. 44
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 12: Two-Dimensional Media, pp. 143-149
• Studio 12.4: A Linoleum Block Print
• Studio 12.5: A One-Color Screen Print
• Lesson 4: Collage
• Studio 4: Make a Hobby Collage
• Studio: Gelly Bowls (Dimensional Acrylic Collage)
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 12: Two-Dimensional Media, pp. 155-157
• Studio 12.6: A Unified Collage
• Studio: Muse of Chance Collage (Arp), Discovering Great Artists, p. 74
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 13: Three-Dimensional Forms (Jewelry), pp. 177-179
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 13: Three-Dimensional Forms (Soft Sculpture and Glass), pp. 182-185
• Studio: Soft Sculpture (Claes Oldenburg sculptures; The Visual Experience, Meet the Artist: Claes Oldenburg, p. 101)
• Studio 13.6: A Window Panel with Paper (Stained Glass)
• Lesson 5: Fiber Artworks
• Studio 5: Make a Fiber Weaving (Variation: Burlap Weaving)
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 13: Three-Dimensional Forms (Woven Fiber Forms), pp. 179-181
• Meet the Artist: M.C. Escher
• Look and Compare: Arts and Crafts
• Lesson 6: Sculpture
• Studio 6: Create a Relief Sculpture
• Studio: Wireform Figure Sculpture
• Studio: Modern Figure Sculpture in the Style of Alberto Giacometti (Variation: Foil Figures, Usborne Art Treasury, pp. 64-67)
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 13: Three-Dimensional Media (Sculpture), pp. 159-171
• Carving, pp. 160-161
• Studio 13.1: A Sculpture with Movement
• Studio: Carving Clay (Rodin), Discovering Great Artists, p. 50
• Casting, pp. 162-164
• Modeling, p. 165
• Coiling, p. 166
• Slab Building and Papier-Mache, p. 167
• Construction and Assemblage, p. 168-171
• Lesson 7: Architecture
• Studio 7: Create an Architectural Model
• Studio: Environmental House
• Studio: Box House Architect (Wright), Discovering Great Artists, p. 82
• Lesson 8: Pottery and Ceramics
• Studio 8: Make a Hand-Built Pottery Vessel
• Studio: Slab Vase (uses self-hardening clays)
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 13: Three-Dimensional Media, pp. 175-176
• Lesson 9: Still Photography
• Studio 9: Make a Photomontage
• Additional Reading: The Visual Experience, Chapter 12: Two-Dimensional Media, pp. 150-153 (Film, Video and Computer Art)
• Portfolio Project: Tessellation Design (Variation: Vasarely Was a Colorful Fellow)
• Vasarely: The official artist website; includes many examples of his work.

Part Two

• Riverside Tru-Ray Construction Paper (in a variety of colors)
• Strathmore 140lb Watercolor Paper
• Sulphite 90lb Drawing Paper 
• Strathmore Visual Journal (one per student)
• Spectra Kolorfast Tissue Paper (in a variety of colors)
• Blick Studio Artists' Boards (for special projects)
• Prang and/or Crayola Tempera Paint (especially white, black, red, yellow, blue)
• Golden Heavy Body Acrylics: Principle Set of 6 Colors (or, Liquitex)
• White Acrylic Gesso
• Shiva Liquid Masque
• Sakura Cray-Pas Expressionist Oil Pastels
• Chalk Pastels
• 1/2" Flat Brush (one per student)
• 1" Flat Brush (one per student)
• No. 8 Round Brush (one per student)
• Watercolor Brushes (one set per student)
• Paint Tray
• Foam Brushes (a variety)
• General's Charcoal Pencil Drawing Kit No. 15 (one per student)
• Factis Erasers (1-2 per student)
• Tortillons
• Sharpie Chisel Tip Markers, Black
• Sculpture Wire
• Scratch-Foam Board (for printmaking projects)
• Brayer
• Palette Knife (one per student)
• Paint Scrapers
• Lyra Aquacolor Crayons
• Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Color Pencils 
• Stabilo Point 88 Pens 
• Stabilo 68 Pens
• Tacky Glue 
• Mod Podge
• Scissors

• Sargent Glitter Glaze 
• Sargent Pearlescent Mixing Medium
• Glitter Tissue Paper
• Metallic and Pearlescent Pastels
• Blick Liquid Watercolors
• Liquitex Freestyle 3" Paddle Brush
• Lyra Graphite Crayons
• Caran d'Ache Neocolor I Metallic Artist Crayons
• Golden Acrylic Gel Mediums Sampler Set (or full-size products)
• Golden Absorbent Ground
• Black Acrylic Gesso
• Pearl-Ex Pigments
• Japanese Rice Paper
• Colored Masking Tape
• Sheffield Self-Hardening Clay
• Instant Papier-Maché

Books on Technique:

• Celebrate Your Creative Self: More Than 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist Within by Mary Todd Beam
• Rethinking Acrylic: Radical Solutions For Exploiting The World's Most Versatile Medium by Patti Brady
• Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks and Techniques for Working with the World's Most Versatile Medium by Nancy Reyner
• Acrylic Innovation: Styles and Techniques Featuring 64 Visionary Artists by Nancy Reyner
• Drawing with Children by Mona Brooks
• Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun by Carla Sonheim
• Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects by Bee Shay 
• The Pastel Book by Bill Creevy
• Magazines: Somerset Studio and Cloth Paper Scissors -- both are good for new mixed media techniques. 

• Matisse Biography
• Derain Biography
• The Fauves Web Tour from the National Gallery of Art
• artfactory has a nice overview of Fauvism
• Fauvism - an essay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Fauvist Art: Part One, Part Two [Slideshow]
• Paris: The Luminous Years (PBS) is currently available to watch online and includes information about the Fauvists.

• Henri Matisse: Color and Light, from the National Gallery of Art (More on the Fauves new approach to color can be found in this article)
• Henri Matisse Unit
• Exploring Painting with the Fauves 
• Painting a Fauvist Self-Portrait (.PDF) from Scholastic Art
• Creating a Colorful Landscape (.PDF) from Scholastic Art

SEE: Introductory Poetry Terms

Poetry for Young People (Excellent series from Sterling Publishing)

• 1564-1616 William Shakespeare by David Scott Kastan
• 1757-1827 William Blake by John Maynard
• 1770-1850 William Wordsworth by Dr. Alan Liu
• 1807-1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Francis Schoonmaker
• 1809-1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson by John Maynard
• 1809-1849 Edgar Allan Poe by Brad Bagert
• 1812-1888 Edward Lear by Edward Mendelson
• 1812-1889 Robert Browning by Eileen Gillooly
• 1819-1892 Walt Whitman by Jonathan Levin
• 1830-1886 Emily Dickinson by Francis Schoonmaker Bolin
• 1832-1898 Lewis Carroll by Edward Mendelson
• 1850-1894 Robert Louis Stevenson by Frances Schoonmaker
• 1865-1936 Rudyard Kipling by Eileen Gillooly
• 1865-1939 William Butler Yeats by Jonathan Allison
• 1874-1963 Robert Frost by Gary D. Schmidt
• 1878-1967 Carl Sandburg by Francis Schoonmaker Bolin
• 1879-1955 Wallace Stevens by John N. Serio
• 1883-1963 William Carlos Williams by Christopher MacGowan
• 1892-1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay by Francis Schoonmaker
• 1902-1967 Langston Hughes by David Roessel
• 1928-0000 Maya Angelou by Edwin Graves Wilson, Ph.D.

Poetry by Theme:

• Poetry for Young People: The Seasons by John N. Serio
• Poetry for Young People: Animal Poems by John Hollander
• Poetry for Young People: American Poetry by John Hollander

• A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms by Paul B. Janeczko, Chris Raschka

Writing Poetry

• Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem From the Inside Out by Ralph Fletcher
• Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem by Jack Prelutsky

Teaching Poetry

• The Power of Poems: Teaching the Joy of Writing Poetry by Margriet Ruurs
• Poetry Lessons: Everything You Need by Kathy A. Perfect
• Poetry Writing Handbook: Definitions, Examples, Lessons by Greta Lipson and Judy Mitchell

Hypberbole

• Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs, Paul Zelinsky
• The Giant of Seville: A "Tall" Tale Based on a True Story by Dan Andreasan
• Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart by Pat Mora, Raul Colon 
• Thunder Rose* by Jerdine Nolen

Idiom

• Monkey Business* by Wallace Edwards
• The Cat's Pajamas by Wallace Edwards
• There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me by Loreen Leedy, Pat Street
• You Are What You Eat: and Other Mealtime Hazards by Serge Bloch

Imagery/Sensory Language

• Saturday and Teacakes* by Lester Laminack, Chris Soentpiet
• Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom and Wishes by Susan V. Bosak, Leon Dillon 
• One Leaf Rides the Wind by Celeste Mannis, Susan Kathleen Hartung
• Wild Child by Lynn Plourde, Greg Couch

Metaphor

• Tar Beach by Faith Ringold
• Prairie Train by Marsha Wilson Chall, John Thompson
• In November by Cynthia Rylant, Jill Kastner
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
• White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt, Roger Duvoisin
• Hide and Seek Fog by Alvin Tresselt, Roger Duvoisin

Simile

• Elephant Dance: Memories of India* by Theresa Heine, Sheila Moxley
• Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer, Barbara Cooney
• Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like by Jay Williams, Mercer Mayer
• The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown, Leonard Wisegard
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
• White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt, Roger Duvoisin
• Hide and Seek Fog by Alvin Tresselt, Roger Duvoisin
• Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood, Don Wood

Personification

• New York is English, Chattanooga is Creek* by Chris Raschka
• Hello, Harvest Moon by Ralph Fletcher, Kate Kiesler
• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
• Gilberto and the Wind by Marie Hall Ets
• Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack, Rachel Isadora
• There is a Flower At the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me by Alice Walker, Stefano Vitale
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert

Symbolism

• I Have an Olive Tree by Eve Bunting, Karen Barbour
• The Lotus Seed by Sherry Barbour, Tatsuro Kiuchi
• The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
• Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
• Home of the Brave by Allen Say
• The Rag Coat by Lauren A. Mills

Alliteration

• Animalia by Graeme Base
• Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak
• Walter Was Worried by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• A Little Book of Alliterations by Felix Arthur, Jenny Capon
• More here

Onomatopoeia

• Langston's Train Ride* by Robert Burleigh, Leonard Jenkins
• Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka
• Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoeic Story by David Johnson
• Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights by Debbie S. miller, Jon Van Zyle

Books marked with an asterisk are included in Teaching Literary Elements with Picture Books by Susan van Zile.

All items are from Home Science Tools except those in light blue which can be found at Carolina Biological Supply.

• Microscope
• Digital Stop Watch
• Slides
• Depression Slides
• Coverslips
• (4) Plastic Cups with Lids (2A, 2B)
• Clover Seeds (2A)
• (4) Graduated Cylinder (2A)
• Sample Tray (2A, 2B)
• Brine Shrimp Eggs (2B)
• Magnifying Glass
• Balance (2B, 8A)
• Safety Goggles (4A)
• Apron (4A)
• (4) 40ml Containers with Screw Caps (4A)
• Bromothymol Blue Solution (4A)
• Beakers (4A, 5B)
• Petri Dishes
• 2-5cm Sprigs of an Aquatic Plant (4A)
• Funnel (4A)
• Brine Shrimp (5B)
• Plastic Droppers
• Iodine Stain (7A)
• Prepared Slide: Human Muscle Tissue (7B)
• Live Ulothrix (7B)
• Methylene Blue Stain (7B)
• (2) 600 ml Beakers (8A)
• 50 ml Beakers (8A)
• Live Euglena, Amoeba, Paramecium Cultures (9A)
• Prepared Slide: Onion Root Tip Slide (10A)
• Prepared Slide: Horse Ascaris Slide (10A)
• PTC Paper (11A)
• Pop Beads and Clear Plastic Connectors (12A, 12B)
• Leaf Cutaway Slide (16A)
• Zebrina Plant (16A) (*Order 3-4 weeks prior to Investigation)
• Forceps (16A)
• Glucose Solution (16A)
• Dissecting Scissors (16B)
• Live Planarians (17A)
• Cow Eye Dissection Kit (17B)
• Sphygmomanometer (18B)
• Stethoscope (18B)

Part One: Units 1-3

Unit 4: Evolution and Change

Chapter 11: Evolution

• Section 11.1: Evidence for Evolution
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 13A: Crazy Adaptions
• Skill and Practice Sheet 13.1: Charles Darwin
• Suggested Reading: The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin by Peter Sis, Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure by A.J. Wood, On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin, David Quammen. (Additional Literature Tie-In: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly)
• An excellent 53-page booklist on Darwin and evolution can be found here. See also: Charlie's Playhouse.
• DVD(s): Creation, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwin's Secret Notebooks
• Section 11.2: How Evolution Works
• Graphic Organizer 13.2: Darwin's Theory
• Skill and Practice Sheet 13.2: Thomas Robert Malthus 
• Section 11.3: Natural Selection
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 13B: Natural Selection

Websites

• Tree of Life Web Project
• Charles Darwin from The Open University: Includes "Devolve Me" activity.

Chapter 12: Earth and Life History

• Section 12.1: Evidence from Rocks
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 14A: Relative Dating
• Graphic Organizer 14.2: Relative Dating
• Skill and Practice Sheet 14.1: Scientific Notation
• Skill and Practice Sheet 14.1: Nicholas Steno
• Skill and Practice Sheet 14.2: Relative Dating
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 14B: Interpreting the Fossil Record
• Section 12.2: How Earth Changes
• Skill and Practice Sheet 14.2: Alfred Wegener
• Section 12.3: Life History
• Skill and Practice Sheet 14.3: Averaging

Unit 5: Structure and Function of Living Things

Chapter 13: The Diversity of Life

• Section 13.1: Taxonomy and Systematics
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 15A: Creature Cladogram
• Creature Cards for Creature Cladogram
• Graphic Organizer 15.1: Taxonomy
• Skill and Practice Sheet 15.1: Carolus Linnaeus
• Skill and Practice Sheet 15.1: Primate Cladogram
• Animal Kingdom Labels (.PDF) for animal classification; from Montessori Materials
• Section 13.2: Algae and Fungi
• Graphic Organizer 15.2: Algae and Fungi
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 15B: Bread Mold
• Spore Print Lab at Middle School Science
• Yeast Experiments at Home Biology
• Growing Fungi Lab at Home Biology (And for fun, a Glow in the Dark Mushroom Kit)

Chapter 14: Plants

• Section 14.1: What Are Plants?
• Graphic Organizer 16.1: Plants
• Skill and Practice Sheet 16.1: George Washington Carver 
• Section 14.2: Roots, Stems, and Leaves
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 16A: Leaf Structure and Function
• Skill and Practice Sheet 16.2: The Parts of a Plant
• Skill and Practice Sheet 16.2: Root Structure Diagram
• Section 14.3: Reproduction in Flowering Plants
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 16B: Flower Dissection
• Skill and Practice Sheet 16.3: Flower Parts
• Skill and Practice Sheet 16.3: Plant Reproduction
• Suggested Reading: John Muir: My Life with Nature by Joseph Cornell and John Muir

Supplements

• Science in a Nutshell Kit: Flowering Plants at Delta Education
• See: Planting Science

Chapter 15: Animals

• Section 15.1: What Is an Animal?
• Graphic Organizer 17.1: Animals
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 17A: Observing Planarians
• Live planarians at Carolina Biological Supply (also here)
• Extra Lab Idea: Stem Cell Research: Plenty of Planarian and Planarian Dissection
• Section 15.2: Invertebrate Structure and Function
• Graphic Organizer 17.2: Invertebrates
• Invertebrate Critter Cards (.PDF): Students will classify invertebrates into 5 of the main groups.
• Section 15.3: Vertebrate Structure and Function
• Graphic Organizer: 17.3 Vertebrates
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 17B: The Mammalian Eye
• Cow Eye Dissection Kit at Home Science Tools
• Skill and Practice Sheet 17.3: The Mammalian Eye

Supplements

• Science in a Nutshell Kit: Animal Observatory at Delta Education

Unit 6: The Human Body

Chapter 16: Human Body Systems

• Section 16.1: Circulation and Respiration
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 18A: Who's Got the Beat?
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 18B: The Pressure's On
• Graphic Organizer 18.1: The Circulatory System
• Graphic Organizer 18.2: The Respiratory System
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.1: Stopwatch Math
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.1: Dr. Daniel H. Williams
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.1: Dr. Charles Drew
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.1: Helen Taussig
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.1: The Heart
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.1: The Human Respiratory System
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.1: Circulation
• Section 16.2: Human Reproduction
• Section 16.3: Other Organ Systems
• Graphic Organizer 18.3: Organ Systems
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.2: Skin Cross-Section
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.2: Endocrine System Diagram
• Skill and Practice Sheet 18.2: Digestive System Diagram

Supplements

• Science in a Nutshell Kit: Body Basics (Digestive, Respiratory and Skeletal Systems) at Delta Education
• Science in a Nutshell Kit: A Peek Inside You at Delta Education

Chapter 17: Support and Movement

• Section 17.1: Bones and Muscles
• Graphic Organizer 19.1: Structure of Bone
• Skill and Practice Sheet 19.1: Human Skeletal System Diagram
• Skill and Practice Sheet 19.1: Bone Cross-Section
• Skill and Practice Sheet 19.1: Types of Human Body Joints
• Section 17.2: The Human Body as a Machine
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 19A: Levers
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 19B: Levers and the Human Body
• Graphic Organizer 19.2: Skeletal/Muscle Partners as Simple Machines
• Skill and Practice Sheet 19.2: Mechanical Advantage
• Skill and Practice Sheet 19.2: Types of Levers
• Skill and Practice Sheet 19.2: Levers in the Human Body

Supplements

• Science in a Nutshell Kit: The Human Machine at Delta Education

Chapter 18: Vision and Hearing

• Section 18.1: The Nervous System
• Graphic Organizer 20.1: Nerve Impulses
• Skill and Practice Sheet 20.1: Brain Diagram
• Neuroscience for Kids [website] and Backyard Brains [website + kit]
• Section 18.2: Vision
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 20A: Color Vision
• Student Record Sheet: Investigation 20B: The Human Eye
• Graphic Organizer 20.2: How the Eye Works
• Skill and Practice Sheet 20.2: Measuring Angles with a Protractor
• Skill and Practice Sheet 20.2: Reflection
• Skill and Practice Sheet 20.2: Using Ray Diagrams
• Skill and Practice Sheet 20.2: Drawing Ray Diagrams
• Skill and Practice Sheet 20.3: Parts of the Human Eye
• Section 18.3: Optics
• Section 18.4: Hearing
• Graphic Organizer 20.3: How the Ear Works
• Skill and Practice Sheet 20.4: Parts of the Human Ear

Supplements

• Science in a Nutshell Kit: Vision and Hearing at Delta Education
• Science in a Nutshell Kit: Smell, Taste, Touch at Delta Education