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This assessing a photograph rubric is essential for teaching students to assess their own photographs. I would use this with students who are new to photography. It looks at: Focus Background Composition Topic Lighting Click here to find more Photography Resources on The Arty Teacher.

This is an ideal introduction to photography for younger students and offers 3 ideas for an outcome.  The 6 page PowerPoint shows how they can find letters hidden in the environment.  The last three slides suggest three project ideas which are to: Create the word 'Alphabet' Create their own name....

Two beautiful urchin art resource sheets with 9 different images of urchins.  Ideal for your shells or natural forms projects.

This beautiful, high-definition sea urchin shell can be printed in colour or black and white, giving you the choice of pencil or coloured pencil.  It will advance your students drawing skills as there is a good range of tones/values and it has lots of detail.  This would work well in...

This Leaves Shading Art Resource includes 3 worksheets in different colours - black, green and autumnal, for practising shading and blending. It is great if you are looking at natural forms. A lesson plan and good example to show to your students is also included.

This drawing spiders resource is ideal for those of you who are running insects projects.  This resource asks students to work lightly in pencil and then in pen. See all The Arty Teacher Insect Resources here.

A fantastic collection of resources to support your Hundertwasser units of work. This bundle includes... A page where students can create 4 Hundertwasser stamp designs or compositions. A page where students can create 6 Hundertwasser stamp designs or compositions. A worksheet for experimenting with different media. A Hundertwasser inspired fonts...

2 worksheets for students to draw the missing half of the beetle.  These worksheets will engage your students and teach them the drawing skills they need to progress.  Fitting into insect, animal or natural forms projects, you will use these worksheets for the rest of your career!

7 pages of high-resolution images of beetles.  Your students will have lots of choice and really engage with these detailed, colourful images of beetles.  What a great starting point for insect art projects!  

This worksheet is ideal to introduce or consolidate learning complementary colors.  There are two versions of the worksheet - one with the spelling 'colour' and one with 'color'.  A lesson plan is included should you wish to use this as a sub lesson. The Arty Teacher has lots of colour...