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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 1.06. Refine images of self, pets, family, friends, and environment.
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General resources
- Find additional resources for teaching Visual Arts Education — Grade 3.
Aligned lesson plans
- Haiku and photography: A natural connection
- This lesson will allow students to combine photographing nature with creating a Haiku poem to express what they see in the photograph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Steven Sather.
Resources on the web
- Sodbusters!
- Students examine photographs of sod houses, build a model sod house, and picture themselves living in a ‘soddie’ to gain a firsthand perspective on the frontier period of American history. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- 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
- A listening doll
- In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students discuss the process of storytelling and listening to stories. Students about will learn abut the Native American Pueblo communities in the Southwest. Pueblo storytellers held a place of great importance in these communities.... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education)
- Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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