Welcome to the HOPArt Education Store

HOPArt Education is open and has just started. It will build slowly as I complete and process new projects to add to the Store. I am changing the Store to an Education rather than just an art history site and there will be PDF digital downloads as products to buy.

HOPArt Education will be a resource for teachers and students in school, at home or travelling on the road. Digital downloads are available with information and lesson ideas. Since memory works best with pictures, I will endeavour to mostly show pictures with descriptions and labels rather than text.

The new Education Topics will cover selected areas of

Art, History and Science

There will be a section in the Menu called Class Projects which will be a Post on each of the latest Projects. It will include an introduction and overview of the content in the PDF Downloads.

Celtic Art continues on HOPArt

The Celtic Art already on site will continue to be available and pages can still be printed out for free. Later I will apply the Celtic art designs and information to ideas and activities for the classroom.

I have changed the structure so that Celtic Art, Viking Art and Pictish Art are all grouped into Art of the Past on the Menu. It is the art before the rise of Classical Art in Greece and Rome.

The Art Galleries Menu is the same and contains picture drawings with the Celtic style animals, birds, horses, knotwork, spirals, ornaments and figures and some Pictish symbols.

Medieval Art on the Menu includes the Age of Faith and the Book of Kells.

There is a Post on the Bayeux Tapestry and the role of the monasteries in the Dark Ages. In the Book of Kells Menu section the artwork of the illuminated manuscripts is discussed with examples. Art changed with the conversion to Christianity and the monks worked out a way to hold true to their own pagan beliefs and satisfy the Church rules. The Book of Kells is an absolutely outstanding master work in the History of Western Art.

Evolution of Humans through Time

I have decided to start with Evolution and have presented a timeline for humans and how life began from tiny organisms. This timeline over 3.8 billion years is shown in the Human Evolution in Steps Chart. It is a sweeping flow chart with pictures of the animals and creatures as they developed and evolved over time. The focus is on the human story and the evolution line is shown in pictures with labels.

The Classification System. As a follow on, the scientific system of grouping organisms into categories is shown in a picture and list chart and more.

There are Pocket Cards for each of the eight categories. The cards can be printed, cut out and sorted into the biological classifications and pasted into the work book.

For example the drawings below shows the ORDER /Primates at the top (monkeys, apes and prosimians) and the FAMILY /Apes below (gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo, orangutan, gibbon and humans.

For further information go to the Menu above and click to open the Store. Each product has a preview picture of what is available. Thumbnails underneath expand on the conent and let you see more.

The digital downloads can be printed out on most printers. PDF files can be opened in a wide range of programs or they can be opened in Acrobat. It is best to choose Fit to Page in the Print Dialog box when printing. The documents are all A4 size which is standard and 210 x 297 mm or 8.3 x 11.7 inches. The hard copy can be photocopied for students to use.

The Skull Project for artists is coming up next.