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Visual Arts Education — Grade 2

Goal 5, Objective 5.05

Goal 5

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

Objective 5.05

Begin to realize that there have been diverse cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.

Resources aligned to this objective

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Vessels in Greek art, the visit
This lesson focuses on the uses, shapes, importance, and historical storytelling on Greek vessels in art.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education)
By Katie O'Connor.

Lesson plans on the web

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
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
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
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