H I G H SC H O O L

The Visual Experience By Jack Hobbs, Richard Salome, and Ken Vieth

Available as an eBook and print textbook.

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Program Overview and Chapter Organizer
At-a-glance chapter organizers for every chapter help you teach
the way you want to teach. Scan an entire chapter and select
the topics, activities, and options that fit your own curriculum.

Student Book includes:

• 45 Studio lessons by Ken Vieth
• Four parts with 16 chapters
• Fine-art images from across time
and around the globe, including
21st century artists
• Artist biographies
• Step-by-step art criticism
• Student Handbook with step-by-step
techniques

Teacher Edition includes:

• Wrap-around format
• Clear lesson organization including
a four-step approach to developing
critical skills
• Technology focus

Teacher Edition, Chapter 7

Materials
Review Studio Experience media.

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Pacing
Choose content according to your own course schedule.
Choose from a nine-week, one semester, or full-year course.

Assessment
Preview a variety of chapter
tools for checking student
understanding.

Teaching Options
Preview strategies for meeting
individual needs, linking to
other disciplines, writing about
art, and background on artists,
artworks, processes, and the
elements of art and principles
of design.

Resources lists
Resource lists suggest helpful
ancillary products for each
chapter and lesson.

Objectives
Preview the chapter and lessons objectives.

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Chapter Opener
Openers give you consistent previews of each chapter,
plus strategies for engaging students right from the start.

Objectives
Quickly identify chapter
objectives.

Student Pages
See everything your
students see.

Fine Art
Each chapter opens with
an example of fine art.

Resources List
Check available Teacher
Resources supplements
for the chapter. Words in
parentheses refer to
resource titles.

Teacher Edition, Chapter 7

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 Key Terms
Look over chapter vocabulary
in English and Spanish.

Lessons at a Glance
Preview chapter content before
you teach.

Artists lists
Preview the artists whose
works appear in the chapter.

Student Artwork
Examples of student artwork
reflect the chapter theme.

More About
Read background information
about the featured artwork or
artist.

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A Quick Look and Lessons
A Quick Look Don’t have time for an entire chapter? Want to get basic ideas across fast?
Here you can find:
• a concise lesson format: Introduce, Teach, Assess, Close
• the main ideas of the chapter
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• sample artworks that drive main points home visually
• clearly marked and defined primary vocabulary

Teach
Teach presents ways to:
• engage students
• use the text
• use the art
• extend the lesson
• reinforce art history,
criticism, aesthetics,
and art production

Spanish versions
of Quick Look Resources
Spanish versions are available A wealth of ancillaries are
with the Teacher Resources. correlated at point of use.

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Lessons Teaching information wraps around every lesson, offering you point-of-use support
and strategies. Side margins focus on the textbook’s narrative and artwork. The white box and
gray bar at the bottom offer you additional resources, information, and options.

Simple
lesson format
A simple lesson format allows
you both structure and flexibility.
Prepare outlines with pacing
suggestions, lesson objectives,
key vocabulary and definitions,
and studio materials.

Assess
Assess provides
evaluation techniques.

Close
Suggestions on ways to
summarize and reinforce
content as well as carefully
structured discussions and
activities

Teaching Options
• Find out More About artists, techniques, and processes
• Help students make interdisciplinary connections
• Reinforce language skills with writing exercises

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Studio Experience
Introduce and reinforce basic skills while you help students create meaningful art. Use the studio lessons of
Ken Vieth, author of From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Art and Design Problem Solving, as a springboard for a
series of thought-provoking, hands-on exercises. Offered at the end of every chapter, these studio lessons will
move students toward the extraordinary; inspiring and expanding their understanding of themselves and their art.

Technique Tips
Practical suggestions for
working in various media.

Pacing
Pacing is suggested as a guide;
adapt to your own schedule
and needs.

Studio Objectives
Clear studio objectives make
it easy to relate the creative
process to your own curricular
goals.

Materials
Review materials you’ll need.

Warm-up
Start with a warm-up to
focus students’ attention.

Digital Option
Digital options suggest alterna-
tive or supplemental projects
for the Studio Experience using
available technology.

Teacher Edition, Chapter 7

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Write About It!
Writing exercises encourage the use of art vocabulary
and reflection on the creative process.

Safety Note
Addresses potential safety issues
related to certain materials.

Art History
Connects the Studio Experience
to a specific period of history,
art style, or movement to
help students understand the
connections between historical
art and their own work.

Assess
Cross-check: Have all objectives
been met? Both teacher and
student assessment techniques
are offered.

Meeting
Individual Needs
Explore strategies for students
with specific needs.

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Art Criticism Step by Step
Art Criticism can be challenging—lead your students through it, step by step, using
the proven critical process of Describe, Analyze, Interpret, and Evaluate.

Teacher Edition, Chapter 9

About the Artist More About the Artwork Art Criticism Answers
Artist biography accompanies the Additional information about the fine art Suggested answers for all criticism
artwork, reinforces the connection image is included. questions.
between art and artist.

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Artists’ Showcase and Chapter Review
Wrap up every chapter with an art exhibit and a careful review.

Teacher Edition, Chapter 9

Additional Summary For Your Review

Artworks Summary reinforces chapter Sketchbook Questions
Two works by the Art Criticism vocabulary and major Includes sketchbook Chapter Review
Step by Step featured artist concepts. prompts, ideas, and questions require
are included to provide context artist notes. short-answer, essay,
for the artist’s other work. and hands-on responses.
Additional works, related For Your Portfolio
closely to chapter content, Assists students in documenting
offer opportunities for their progress and developing a Going Further
discussion and analysis. body of work. Offers challenging opportuni- Review Answers
ties to expand and deepen Answers provided at point
the studio experience. of use.

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Table of Contents and Student Handbook
PART ONE The Student Handbook covers the following
Introduction to Art studio concepts and techniques:
Chapter 1: What is Art? • Planning Your Art • Printmaking
Chapter 2: How Should We Look at Art? • Drawing • Clay Sculpture
• Linear Perspective • Sculpture
• Drawing Figures • Photography
PART TWO • Color • Storing Your Artwork
Elements and Principles of Design • Painting Techniques • Displaying Your Artwork

Chapter 3: Line
Chapter 4: Shape and Form
Chapter 5: Value and Color
Chapter 6: Space
Chapter 7: Texture
Chapter 8: Principles of Design

PART THREE
Art Media and Careers
Chapter 9: 2-D Media
Chapter 10: 3-D Media
Chapter 11: Architecture
Chapter 12: Careers in Art

PART FOUR
Art History
Chapter 13: Non-Western I
Chapter 14: Non-Western II
Chapter 15: Western I
Chapter 16: Western II

PART FIVE
Resources
Student Handbook

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