Visual Arts Education — Grade 5

Faces Tell Feelings - Part 6

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.

Observing connections: Art, poetry and the environment

Students will explore the poem of Pat Lowery Collins, “I Am An Artist” and create their own poem from what they see and experience. They will then illustrate their poems with a visual design. This is the first lesson in a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations: Lesson 1 Observing Connections —Art, Poetry, and the Environment; Lesson 2 Observing Connections—Changing Landscapes; Lesson 3 Observing Connections—North Carolina Pottery and Face Jugs

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)

By Lisa Mitchell.

Lesson plans on the web

Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures

Students demonstrate comprehension of plot events and character motivations, describe the author's purpose and evaluate the techniques used to achieve it, identify and differentiate between facts and examples of personification. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Who was Wassily Kandinsky?

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students explore 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 art. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics and Visual Arts Education)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics