Standard Course of Study :: Visual Arts Education

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Asian action I: Character details: Students will use drawing and writing to study characters in Asian art, focusing on the potential stories hinted at by the many details depicted in the art examples. This lesson draws on the richly detailed and expressive human and animal characters depicted in the arts of Asia. Is there a reason why Durga has so many arms? What about Ganesha and that elephant head?; Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education, Information Skills, and English Language Arts)

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

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