Visual Arts Education — Grade 3

Thanksgiving cornucopia

Students will create a cornucopia using pages from magazines to cut the fruit, vegetables, and nuts to fill the cornucopia.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education)

Motor car and galimoto: An intercultural lesson in pragmatism, creativity, and perseverance

In this lesson for grade three, students read the book Galimoto, about a young boy in Malawi, Africa, and his quest to gather wire in order to make a toy car. Students discuss the literary elements of the book, study the language used, and complete their own quests to gather wire and create their own galimotos.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)

By Edie McDowell.

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Living landscapes: Are you a disaster?

In this Xpeditions lesson, students compare the impact of different types of disasters on the lives of the people affected by them. This assignment requires students to create a model using their own art supplies for homework. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education)

Provided by: National Geographic

Creating comic strips

This lesson from ARTSEDGE looks at the way we communicate information/ideas through various mediums (words, symbols, illustrations, etc). When analyzing comic strips, students notice that each has a different style, point of view, setting, plot, and summary,... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)

Provided by: ArtsEdge