Standard Course of Study :: Visual Arts Education

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Clown Portrait: Students will create a clown portrait using tempera paint, oil pastels, and collage. They will look at prints of clowns from artist Pablo Picasso, Red Skelton, George Rouault, and Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.
You can even dress as a clown if you wish.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education); By Michelle Harris.

Starry Night: This lesson will introduce the artist Vincent Van Gogh and give students the opportunity to respond to his work. We will explore theme, color, and line while examining the painting "Starry Night" and creating our own pictures using a combination of oil pastel plus cut and paste.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education); By Martha Pearson.

Undersea Exploration: Students explore the lifeforms and land formations under the ocean. The three ocean levels and their respective lifeforms are investigated and discussed, focusing on shape, form, and color. Students will gain a better understanding of the connections between the science and arts curriculum.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Dance Arts Education, Music Education, and Visual Arts Education); By Russ Johnson.

Cave art: Discovering prehistoric humans through pictures: 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 that pictures are a way of communicating beliefs and ideas. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education); Provider: 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); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Let 's talk about painting: Students experience the process of creating paintings in various different styles. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Visual Arts Education); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Masks and Aesop's fables: Students learn on of Aesop's fables, make simple masks, and retell the fable as part of a Greek chorus using masks. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 English Language Arts, Theatre Arts Education, and Visual Arts Education); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The meaning behind the mask: Students explore the cultural significance of masks, discuss the use of masks in stories, and then investigate the role masks play in ceremonies and on special occasions in various African cultures. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Theatre Arts Education, and Visual Arts Education); 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