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I've just seen a face: Portraits

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A lesson plan for Grades 1, 3, and and 5 Visual Arts Education

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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1, 3, and 5
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National Endowment for the Humanities

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The first three lessons comprise a unit in which students develop criteria for looking at portraits. In the culminating lesson, students use a portrait of a famous American and their own research to make a presentation to the class. The rubric provided at the end of this unit can be used to evaluate students' presentations or as a model for designing your own rubric.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.02: Create, discuss and/or write simple stories about one's own artwork.
  • Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
    • Objective 7.02: Realize that advances in science and technology affect how things look and how they are done.
  • Goal 8: The learner will develop an awareness of art as an avocation and profession.
    • Objective 8.03: Begin to understand that some adults make art just for fun and others make art as a job.

Grade 3

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
    • Objective 2.06: Create portraits, still lifes and landscapes from real life observation or memory.
  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.01: Write fables and myths with details based on one's own artwork.
    • Objective 4.06: Know, discuss, and/or write about how an artist's environment and time makes one's own work different from that of other artists in other times or places.
  • Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
    • Objective 7.02: Discuss how the artwork people produce reflects the times in which they live.
  • Goal 8: The learner will develop an awareness of art as an avocation and profession.
    • Objective 8.03: Understand that people can make a living in art related fields.

Grade 5

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
    • Objective 2.01: Use additional art media, techniques and processes, which may include:
      • Drawing - charcoal
      • Printmaking - easy cut, mixed media, collographs
      • 3-D - wire
      • Photography - pin-hole cameras
  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.01: Begin to recognize that art is the visual record of the history of mankind.
  • Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
    • Objective 7.02: Appreciate and speculate about how technology will precipitate additional artistic developments in the future.
    • Objective 7.03: Compare current technology to that of the past.