LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 1

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

Objective 1.03

Select color both for emotional appeal and realism.

Resources aligned to this objective

Faces tell feelings - Part 5 - Typefaces
Students will study various typefaces in terms of their line quality and shape. Then they will use various editing functions in a word processor to create a text document whose typefaces "show" a particular emotion.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Computer Technology Skills)
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)

Lesson plans on the web

An owl in the woods
Illustrations in the book Owl Moon serve as the inspiration for an arts exploration in which students create a watercolor painting. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–3 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Trees in art and nature
Students use the art of Vincent van Gogh as a point of reference to learn about trees by comparing those in Van Gogh's paintings to those in nature. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts