The ultimate curriculum platform for Utah’s Art Educators.
FLEX Curriculum is your solution for hybrid, online, and in-person learning.
About Flex
What Is FLEX Curriculum?
FLEX gives art teachers access to a rich library of high-quality curriculum materials so they can save time and focus on teaching and student learning.
Discover:
Search and filter through a library of premium curriculum materials, including lessons, videos, resources, and assessments.
Design:
FLEX allows teachers to build custom lesson plans to best curate standards-aligned curriculum materials into 100% custom classes and units.
Deliver:
Access from any device, anytime. Download, print, screen share, or upload to your school’s LMS.
“Art of Ed does a great job matching curriculum with national and Utah state standards. It is very current, they are constantly adding more, and very well-researched.”
–Utah Adoption Reviewer
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1,000s of premium curriculum materials…
FLEX gives art teachers access to a rich library of high-quality curriculum materials so they can save time and focus on teaching and student learning.
Lesson Plans:
Engaging step-by-step lessons complete with key objectives, teaching strategies, and time requirements.
LINES AND SHAPES OF UNITY
Students will identify geometric and organic shapes, negative space, and unity to create an abstract work of art. Students will create an artwork using oil pastels inspired by abstract artist Reggie Laurent’s work.
LEVEL – Beginner
AREAS OF STUDY – Oil Pastel / Shape / Abstract Art / Unity / Line
COLLECTIONS – Expressive Abstraction
PINCHED PATTERNS IN NATURE
Students will appraise the impact of artists inspired by nature and hypothesize how art can affect social change as they create nature-inspired pinch pots, enhanced with texture and glazing techniques. They will create a rubric for success and participate in a final critique.
LEVEL – Advanced
AREAS OF STUDY – Ceramics / Sculpture / Form / Science
COLLECTIONS – Pinch Pottery
VISUAL STORYTELLING
Through visual journaling, students will explore collaging imaginative visual stories. Students will arrange found images from magazines to explore how composition impacts visual meaning-making. Students will write creative stories and poems to connect with the artworks.
LEVEL – Intermediate
AREAS OF STUDY – Literacy / Collage / Watercolor / Unity / Emphasis / Color
COLLECTIONS – Visual Journaling
WE GO TOGETHER
Students will examine artists that work with pairs (e.g., socks) and paired objects (e.g., salt and pepper shakers). They will create their own unique pair of items using air-dry clay, present their pair with a reflective artist statement, and participate in a peer critique.
LEVEL – Beginner
AREAS OF STUDY – Still Life / Acrylic / Ceramics / Sculpture / Balance
COLLECTIONS – Creating with Air Dry Clay
POP ART SELFIES
Students will analyze portraits created by Andy Warhol. They will create a pop art inspired self-portrait using repetition, line, and color with paint and pastels.
LEVEL – Intermediate
AREAS OF STUDY – Portrait / Chalk Pastels / Color / Line / Pop Art
COLLECTIONS – Exploring Pop Art
ARTIST STATEMENT STOP-MOTION
Students will develop an artist statement using a combination of words, props, and art. They will use created and gathered objects to tell the story of artmaking in a stop-motion animation and highlight their own voice and process as they present their final animations.
LEVEL – Advanced
AREAS OF STUDY – STEAM / Technology / Identity / Media Arts / Digital
COLLECTIONS – The Art of Stop-Motion Animation
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
Students will investigate the concept of shared and differing interpretations of artwork through peer and class discussion. Students will represent personal interpretations of artwork in sketchbooks, then analyze similar and different interpretations with those of their peers.
LEVEL – Beginner
AREAS OF STUDY – Drawing / Markers / Watercolor / Line / Color/ Contemporary Art
COLLECTIONS – Building a Sketchbook Practice: One-Day Lessons
Resources:
Premium student-facing resources, including worksheets, reference materials, lists, planning sheets, and more.
COLORED PENCIL TECHNIQUES
RESOURCE TYPE – Anchor Chart
AREAS OF STUDY – Colored Pencils / Color / Texture
COLLECTIONS – Working with Colored Pencil / Empowering Identity in Art / Integrating STEAM / Introducing Coding with Art / Flowers in Art / Experimenting with Sketchbooks / Transformation and Color / Nature with Mixed Media / Visual Contrast / Inspired by Cave Art / Building a Sketchbook Practice: One Day Lessons / Portraits and Pencils, and more
GRID DRAWING PRACTICE
RESOURCE TYPE – Worksheet
AREAS OF STUDY – Math
COLLECTIONS – Experimenting with Portraiture / Portraits and Pencils / Heroes and Leaders
BASIC DRAWING VOCABULARY
RESOURCE TYPE – Lists
AREAS OF STUDY – Drawing / Literacy
COLLECTIONS – Expressive Abstraction / Applied Color Theory / Exploring My Community / Emotion and Identity / Mixed-Media Sculpture / Sketching to Shading / Simple Landscapes / Line in Everyday Life / Advanced Math Concepts / Movement and Me / Oil Pastel Techniques / Designing with Pattern / Exploring Pop Art / Inspired by Cave Art, and more
5 WS OF POP ART
RESOURCE TYPE – Reference
AREAS OF STUDY – Pop Art
COLLECTIONS – Exploring Pop Art
WHAT IS A METAPHOR
RESOURCE TYPE – List
AREAS OF STUDY – Literacy
COLLECTIONS – Meaningful Collage
Videos:
High-quality animated videos to capture student attention and scaffold learning around critical art concepts.
Assessments:
Targeted and open-ended assessments, including formative, summative, reflections, critiques, and more.
Artist Bios:
Biographies to help students connect with a diverse set of historical, contemporary, and living artists.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
Seascape Drawing
What are Fiber Arts?
Evaluations
Rubrics
Self Assessments
Frida Kahlo
Banksy
Henri Matisse
… organized into thematic collections.
Collections are a great way to find the exact curriculum materials you’re looking for. FLEX members get exclusive access to a large library of curriculum collections plus three new Collections every single month, covering new artists, current events, cross-curricular connections, and more.
Exploring Abstract Expressionism
Help students interpret their feelings with mark making and emotion as they explore the movement and genre of abstract expressionism.
Line in Everyday Life
Illustrate the importance of lines, a core element of design and an essential part of many forms of art across mediums.
Includes resources describing types of lines.
Empowering Identity in Art
Show students how an artist’s identity can influence their artwork and how they can apply that learning to express their personal identity.
FLEX works with your school’s LMS
FLEX is incredibly versatile and designed to integrate quickly and easily with the majority of learning management systems, including Google Classroom, Seesaw, Canvas, Schoology, and more!
Funding
Unlock Funding for Your Art Curriculum
There’s curriculum funding available for your team. We can help you advocate for it.
Securing educational funding can be daunting, but we’re here to assist. Explore our Funding and Advocacy Resources Page for expert insights, invaluable resources, and actionable strategies to obtain and advocate for the funds your art curriculum needs. Enhance your program and ensure your students receive a superior arts education.