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Visual Arts Education — Grade 3
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.
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General resources
- Find additional resources for teaching Visual Arts Education — Grade 3.
Aligned lesson plans
- 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.
Resources on the web
- 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
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