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Visual Arts Education — Grade 3

Goal 1, Objective 1.02

Goal 1

The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.

Objective 1.02

Apply knowledge and concepts gained across the curriculum as a source of ideas for art.

Resources aligned to this objective

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Temperature Graphs
In the following lesson students will locate and record daily high temperatures for several major cities. This data will then be displayed on line graphs. Students will choose one city, and based on its high temperatures, write a paragraph describing appropriate clothing and activities for that location. They will draw a picture of themselves dressed in the clothing and participating in an activity they described.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Mathematics)
By Kaye Clark.
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 and Social Studies)
By Barbara Mills.

Lesson plans on the web

Exploring Flips and Slides
Students explore the geometric transformations of reflection and translation. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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)
Provider: National Geographic
Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures
Students demonstrate comprehension of plot events and character motivations, describe the author's purpose and evaluate the techniques used to achieve it, identify and differentiate between facts and examples of personification. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
Who was Wassily Kandinsky?
In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students explore the geometric figures Wassily Kandinsky used in his art. Students participate in a scavenger hunt to become familiar with Kandinsky's works and the geometric figures used in art. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics and Visual Arts Education)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics