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Visual Arts Education — Grade 3
Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Objective 2.03. Demonstrate increased fine motor skills.
Additional related resources
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General resources
- Find additional resources for teaching Visual Arts Education — Grade 3.
Aligned lesson plans
- Faces tell feelings - Part 6 - Emotions collage
- Students will create a collage using magazine photos and words printed in computer lab to express a particular emotion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Jan Kimosh.
- Faces tell feelings - Part 3 - Drawing facial expressions
- Students will learn how to draw facial expressions and paint a portrait which portrays a particular expression or emotion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Jan Kimosh.
- An artistic view of outer space
- This is an art lesson easily integrated by art specialists or classroom teachers into any thematic unit that involves space, the solar system, or science fiction and is adaptable for students in grades 2 through 6. It incorporates the use of art materials such as oil pastels and compasses and the design concepts of shape and balance in a composition as well as providing the students with a fun and creative way to explore areas of geometry and science. This lesson is especially useful for classroom teachers who are aware of how art, when integrated into the classroom curriculum, can help students with different learning styles explore a variety of subjects in a way that will help them maximize the learning experience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education)
- By Karen Canfield.
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
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