High School Art Teaching Resources
A complete art course, ready to teach.
Thirty classroom-ready units take your students from the old masters to contemporary art — with the vocabulary, analysis method and studio confidence to talk about any work. Each unit is a full lesson set: differentiated worksheets, a marked answer key, a slide deck and a step-by-step plan.
Browse all 30 units →Plan your year
A course that builds, phase by phase
Taught in order, the collection becomes a coherent secondary art course — each phase adds to the last, from shared looking skills to the contemporary world.
Foundations: seeing & vocabulary
Give every student a shared language and a reliable method before looking at individual artists.
Colour theory · Perspective & space · Analysing a painting · Sculpture & statuary
Classic & pre-modern masters
Anchor technique and composition in works students can read slowly and closely.
Rembrandt · Albrecht Dürer · Caspar David Friedrich
Impression to expression
Trace how colour and brushwork move from careful observation to raw feeling.
Claude Monet · Georges Seurat · Vincent van Gogh · Wassily Kandinsky
Modern movements & identity
Cubism, Expressionism and photomontage — form deployed to carry a message.
Picasso · Kirchner · Otto Dix · Hannah Höch · Frida Kahlo · Käthe Kollwitz
Pop, concept & contemporary
Seriality, installation, street art and activism, right up to art being made today.
Warhol · Banksy · Kusama · Beuys · Christo & Jeanne-Claude · Ai Weiwei · Nam June Paik · the Bechers · Gursky · Richter · Sherman · Bourgeois · Graphic novels
Where to begin
Start with the units that fit your class
New to secondary art
Approachable, high-engagement units with everything scripted, so a first course almost teaches itself.
Analysing a painting · Colour theory · Van Gogh · Andy Warhol
A strong one-off or cover lesson
Self-contained units that land in a single period, with no earlier lesson required.
Banksy · Graphic novels & comics · Frida Kahlo
Written analysis & exam prep
Method-first units that build the describe, analyse and interpret routine students are marked on.
Analysing a painting · Perspective & space · Picasso
The collection
All 30 units
Every unit is a complete, ready-to-teach lesson set at $24.99. Tap any cover to see the full preview and contents.
Artists & movements
Cindy Sherman – Staged Photography and Identity
Andreas Gursky – Digital Large-Format Photography
Gerhard Richter – Between Photorealism and Abstraction
Caspar David Friedrich – Romantic Landscape
Käthe Kollwitz – Graphics and social engagement
Otto Dix – New Objectivity and the Depiction of War
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Die Brücke – Expressionism
Wassily Kandinsky – The Path to Abstraction
Joseph Beuys – The Extended Concept of Art and Action
Andy Warhol – Pop Art and seriality
Pablo Picasso – Cubism and Guernica
Frida Kahlo – Self-Portrait and Symbolism
Louise Bourgeois – Sculpture and Memory
Christo and Jeanne-Claude – Wrapping and concept art
Banksy – Street Art and Social Critique
Yayoi Kusama – Installation and Repetition
Bernd and Hilla Becher – Typologies of Photography
Hannah Höch – Dada Collage
Rembrandt – Portrait and Chiaroscuro
Albrecht Dürer – self-portrait and printmaking
Vincent van Gogh – Colour and Expression
Claude Monet – Impressionism and the Painting of Light
Georges Seurat – Pointillism and colour theory
Nam June Paik – Video Art and Media Critique
Ai Weiwei – Art and Political Activism
Skills, methods & analysis
Analysing a Painting – Method, Vocabulary and Exam Training
Perspective and the representation of space in art
Colour theory – from Itten to practical application
Sculpture and Statuary – Foundations of Analysis
Graphic Novel and Comic in Art Lessons
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
What is the High School Art Teaching Resources collection?
It is a library of 30 ready-to-teach secondary art units covering major artists, art movements and core analysis skills for Grades 7–12. Every unit is a complete lesson set with differentiated worksheets, a full answer key, a slide deck and a step-by-step lesson plan.
What grade levels do these art units suit?
They are written for Grades 7–12. Artist and movement units are pitched at Grades 9–12, while the method units — analysis, colour theory, perspective, sculpture and comics — start at Grade 7. Built-in required and optional tasks let you adjust the level for mixed-ability classes.
What is included in each art resource, and in what file formats?
Each unit contains three to five differentiated worksheets, a complete answer key, a seven-slide presentation and a full lesson plan. Worksheets and answer keys are editable Microsoft Word files and the slides are an editable PowerPoint, so you can print them or teach from them digitally.
How do I use the units across a term or a full year?
Follow the suggested sequence on this page: begin with the foundation skills of colour, perspective and analysis method, then move through pre-modern masters, Impressionism to Expressionism, modern movements, and finally Pop, concept and contemporary art. Any unit also works as a stand-alone lesson.
Can I use these art units with a whole class and reuse them each year?
Yes. A single purchase is a $24.99 instant digital download licensed for your own classroom, so you can print class sets, share them in your learning platform and reuse the unit with new groups in future years.