Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.

Artists make art -- Artists and the images they make: artworks in diverse cultures and times -- Art serves multiple purposes -- Artists in society: a brief overview -- Tribal artists and folk artists -- Artists, creativity, and self-expression -- Artists are inspired in different ways -- Artists begin early or late in life -- Understanding and producing art -- Understanding and using the elements of art: response and production -- Learning about line -- Learning about color -- Learning about shape and form -- Learning about texture -- Learning about space -- Learning about value -- Understanding and using the principles of art: response and production -- Learning about balance -- Learning about emphasis -- Learning about proportion -- Learning about movement -- Learning about rhythm, repetition, and pattern -- Learning about variety and unity -- Art criticism, art history, and aesthetics: strategies for understanding artworks -- Four styles of art and their inherent aesthetic qualities -- Putting it all together: description, analysis, interpretation, judgment -- Art museums and art in public places -- Children in the art classroom -- Children make and respond to art -- Changes in art education over the years -- Child art: production and response -- How children grow in making art -- Motivating artistic production -- Model lesson plans -- Assessing the artworks of elementary students -- Setting up for direct observation -- Strategies for stimulating children's responses to artworks -- Books: versatile partners with art -- New directions for the twenty-first century technology and curriculum design -- New technology in elementary art classes -- Technology as expressive art media -- Technology as sources of art information -- Ten ways to use the Internet in elementary art classes -- Technology glossary -- Computer software programs -- National standards for art education -- National visual arts standards -- Developing visual arts curriculum -- Integration -- Visual arts lesson design -- Concept to classroom: an integrated lesson plan, visual arts and language arts -- Visual arts unit design -- Backward design -- Concept to classroom: an integrated curriculum unit, visual arts and social studies -- The world of art -- A narrative time line of world art: looking at western and non-western artworks -- When art began -- Artworks in ancient times -- Classical artworks -- Art of the Americas -- Tribal art of the United States and Canada.