Visual Arts Education — Grade 2

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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

Egyptian symbols and figures: Hieroglyphs

Introduces students to the writing, art, and religious beliefs of ancient Egypt through hieroglyphs and tomb paintings. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies)

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Egyptian symbols and figures: Scroll painting

Introduces students to the writing, art, and religious beliefs of ancient Egypt through hieroglyphs and tomb paintings. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies)

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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

Navajo weaving

Using the patterns on the Navajo Rugs, students devise dance patterns and perform a traveling pattern based on Navajo weavings. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Dance Arts Education and Visual Arts Education)

Provider: 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)

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities