Standard Course of Study :: Visual Arts Education

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Magicicada: A life cycle: Students learn about the appearance, life cycle, and behavior of cicadas. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education and Science); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Materials and Manufacturing: The tale of The Three Little Pigs is used as an introduction to materials and manufacturing. Students examine the properties, limitations and durability of a variety of materials, then evaluate which of the materials would be best for building a model house. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Information Skills and Visual Arts Education); Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science

An owl in the woods: Illustrations in the book Owl Moon serve as the inspiration for an arts exploration in which students create a watercolor painting. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–3 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Rock hunters: Through their observations of rocks, students will begin to develop an understanding that there are many types of rocks with a multitude of different attributes. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and Science); Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Sunflowers: Van Gogh's depiction of sunflowers is used as a means of focusing on the parts of a flower, growing sunflowers in the classroom, and developing students' artistic impressions of sunflowers. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education and Science); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Take a walk through my day: In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students practice how to tell time on an analog clock and pantomime activities that they do in a typical day. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Visual Arts Education); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

What should a house do?: This is a set of nine lesson plans which compares and contrasts the homes built by the first American settlers with those of the Native American peoples. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Who has seen the wind?: Students explore characteristics of the wind through observation and discussion of several of Vincent van Gogh's paintings, and through poetry, pantomime, and painting. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 Visual Arts Education); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts