LEARN NC

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

Goal 4

The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.

Objective 4.06

Know, discuss, and/or write about how an artist's environment and time makes one's own work different from that of other artists in other times or places.

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Lesson plans on the web

I've just seen a face: Portraits
Students use a portrait of a famous American and their own research to make a presentation to the class. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1, 3, and 5 Visual Arts Education)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
Who has seen the wind?
Students explore characteristics of the wind through observation and discussion of several of Vincent van Gogh's paintings, and through poetry, pantomime, and painting. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 Visual Arts Education)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts