Teaching the process of printmaking can be a gateway to a diverse set of lessons. Printmaking can be made to teach geometry, social studies, even literature if structured the right way. One such lesson plan in printmaking is from the Oracle Education Foundation: ThinkQuest. It covers the Hawaiian tradition of Kapa Printing on cloth. How to do Kapa Printing uses simple supplies and instructions and could easily be modified to discuss many different types of cultural fabric printing. A lesson that takes this same idea a little further is from Art On-Air, a show that runs on Kentucky Educational Television. This Tessellations Lesson takes the basic idea of stamping and broadens it to explore tessellation design. Both of these websites are fabulous sources of many different arts integration lesson plans.Also, be sure the check out the websites listed under "Arts Integration Resources" all of which contain a large selection of diverse lesson plans and ideas!
