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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Visual Arts Education — Grade 1

Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

Objective 5.01. Recognize that art from other times and cultures does not look the same.

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We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

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Aligned lesson plans

Resources on the web

Sunflowers
In this lesson, from the ARTSEDGE curriculum unit “Scientific Impressions,” 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... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education and Science)
Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Stories in quilts
Students explore the history and culture of quilt-making. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education)
Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
Family and friendship in quilts
Students recognize how people of different cultures and time periods have used cloth-based art forms to pass down their traditions and history. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education)
Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
Egyptian symbols and figures: Scroll painting
This lesson plan from EDSITEment introduces students to the writing, art, and religious beliefs of ancient Egypt through hieroglyphs, one of the oldest writing systems in the world, and through tomb paintings. The lesson plan is in two parts. In this second... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
Provided by: EDSITEment
Egyptian symbols and figures: Hieroglyphs
This lesson plan from EDSITEment introduces students to the writing, art, and religious beliefs of ancient Egypt through hieroglyphs, one of the oldest writing systems in the world. The lesson plan is in two parts. In this first lesson, the class creates... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
Provided by: EDSITEment
Cave art: Discovering prehistoric humans through pictures
In this lesson on the EDSITEment website, students travel to the past to explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France, students discover... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education)
Provided by: EDSITEment