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The many colors of individuals

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A lesson plan for Grades 5–8 Visual Arts Education

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Appropriate grades
5–8
Provider
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students focus on the effects of placing labels on other people. In particular, students learn how words, which can unite and bring people together, can also be used negatively to drive people apart or to keep them from knowing who others really are.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 5

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
    • Objective 1.01: Use the imagination as a source for symbolic expression

Grade 6

  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.01: Recognize and discuss art as a means of communication and persuasion.
    • Objective 4.02: Understand the use of life surroundings and personal experiences are used to express ideas and feelings visually.

Grade 7

  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.01: Use visual arts to persuade and communicate ideas.
    • Objective 4.02: Demonstrate the use of life surroundings and personal experiences to express ideas and meanings visually.
    • Objective 4.04: Invent original imagery to convey meaning.

Grade 8

  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.01: Communicate and persuade through visual arts.
    • Objective 4.02: Develop the use of life surroundings and personal experiences to express ideas and feelings visually.