Still Life resource

National Gallery of Art has an amazing Still Life Composer resource that may be integrated into the classroom. I found it particularly useful with a Smartboard, as each student may add an item to a composition. The lesson I used this with was a starting point for the 3rd grade's still life project. The skills that they needed to recognize for the project was overlapping objects, foreground/middle ground/background, and that items in the background are usually going to be smaller. Below is an example of a composition made at the National Gallery of Art.