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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 1.07. Elaborate on an idea or theme.
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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.
- 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)
- By Susan Wenzel Getter and Jan Kimosh.
- Faces tell feelings - Part 2 - Observations
- Students will view a PowerPoint presentation of various portraits by different artists. They will observe facial expressions and the emotions they convey in these works of art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Jan Kimosh.
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
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