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

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We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

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Aligned lesson plans

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.

Resources on the web

Who was Wassily Kandinsky?
This lesson provides students with an exploration of the geometric figures Wassily Kandinsky used in his art. Students participate in a scavenger hunt to become familiar with Kandinsky’s works and the geometric figures used in his paintings. Illuminations... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
Provided by: Illuminations
Seeing geometry in art
Students use paintings studied in the previous lesson to connect their knowledge of geometric shapes and terms with Kandinsky’s use of geometric figures. After reading Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban or The... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
Provided by: Illuminations
Mirroring Kandinsky
In this lesson, one of a six-part unit from Illuminations titled “Geometry in the World of Art,” students explore the geometric figures Wassily Kandinsky used in his art. Students apply what they have learned in previous lessons by designing... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
Provided by: Illuminations
Artistic elements: Exploring art through descriptive writing
In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students become engaged in the studies of both art and written language as they create descriptive writing pieces. Using the book Anna's Art Adventure as the basis for discussion, students are led through a scaffolded... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink