Young Scholars

Literature-based, artist-focused lesson plans that are part of our Young Masters Collection. Learning the basics—color, line, shape, space, form, value & texture—inspired by famous artists opens up a child’s capacity to actualize their imaginations. Art opens us up to new worlds of possibilities. Learn about each artist over the course of a month, explore a piece of their work and activities to apply their techniques. Each monthly unit also includes a book and an element inspired by their work.

Learn about Titus Kaphar with activities like making a whitewash activity, creating a human cutout, and painting a self portrait. Then learn about Jean-Michel Basquiat with activities like are making a layered collage, creating a personal symbol, and taking a virtual tour of the 2019 exhibition of Basquiat’s work at the Brant Foundation in New York City.

Literature-based, artist-focused lesson plans that are part of our Young Masters Collection. Learning the basics—color, line, shape, space, form, value & texture—inspired by famous artists opens up a child’s capacity to actualize their imaginations. Art opens us up to new worlds of possibilities. Learn about each artist over the course of a month, explore a piece of their work and activities to apply their techniques. Each monthly unit also includes a book and an element inspired by their work.

Learn about Vincent Van Gogh with activities like playing with impasto, exploring texture, and documenting light; Mary Cassatt with activities like re-enacting a Cassatt painting, playing with monoprints, and drawing outside with shadows; and learn about artist Gustav Klimt with activities like journaling from the perspective of a cat, potato stamps, and exploring form.

A favorite subject for many students and filled with inherent wonder, science is best learned by doing! Discover weekly hands-on science activities and learn about scientists that incorporate students’ natural curiosity and questions about our physical world. Our Biomes Science Pack is broken up into 3 monthly units:

First, in Biomes: Rainforest & Tundra students will focus on the exciting world of the busy rainforest, and then explore the frozen tundra. Some of the activities in this unit are mapping the biomes of the world, crafting rainforest layers, making rainsticks, and exploring the animals of the arctic tundra.

Then in Biomes: Boreal Forest & Deciduous Forest, the focus shifts to these two different forest biomes with activities like mapping the conifer life cycle, painting a boreal forest, making beaver puppets, and creating a forest diorama.

Lastly, learn about Biomes: Prairie and Desert with activities in this unit like making a tornado in a bottle, growing prairie grass, and exploring how a cactus stores water.

A favorite subject for many students and filled with inherent wonder, science is best learned by doing! Discover weekly hands-on science activities and learn about scientists that incorporate students’ natural curiosity and questions about our physical world. Our Life Cycles & Animals Science Pack is broken up into 2 monthly units:

Begin the first Life Cycles & Animals: Part I unit by learning about many, MANY different animal life cycles! The activities cover how some animals survive, adapted to their environment, and some fascinating facts! Some of the activities are learning how octopuses move, creating a dragonfly wing craft, and finding out why sharks float with an experiment.

As the study continues in Life Cycles & Animals: Part II, we will focus on the remaining animals. Some of the activities are creating a sea turtle life project, making an albatross nest, and sewing a kangaroo pouch craft.