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Visual Arts Education — Grade 6
Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
Objective 7.01. Identify connections, similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines.
Additional related resources
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.
General resources
- Find additional resources for teaching Visual Arts Education — Grade 6.
Aligned lesson plans
- Tessellations with M.C. Escher
- This lesson familiarizes students with tessellations, designs created by images placed against each other with no empty spaces. It also introduces the work of M. C. Escher. It can be used in conjunction with math lessons in geometry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education)
- By Judith Riddle.
- Interior design: Designing my dream room
- Students will study interior design as a profession. They will integrate their study with math, writing, vocational education, and computer skills by designing their own dream bedroom.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Mathematics)
- By Paula Hightower.
- Flower stepping stones
- This lesson plan is intended to encourage learners to integrate the visual arts with science and appreciate nature. Students will create a round or square stepping stone using colored glass pieces with a mortar and sand mixture. The students will have the opportunity to watch the stepping stones attract various types of small animals like birds and butterflies. As a result, students can observe, study, and draw these animals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Visual Arts Education)
- By Pilar Pedersen.
Resources on the web
- A world of myths
- In this lesson from ARTSEDGE, students explore how myths help to explain nature and science. Students read, discuss, and respond in writing to a variety of myths. They then create a graphic representation of one of those myths. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ArtsEdge
- The world of Haiku
- In this lesson, students explore the traditions and conventions of haiku, comparing this classic form of Japanese poetry to a related genre of Japanese visual art and composing haiku of their own. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- Provided by: EDSITEment
- Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes
- In this lesson from EDSITEment, students will explore how poets Tennyson and Noyes use words to paint vivid and memorable pictures and describe how “word pictures” emphasize or qualify the meanings of their poems. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: EDSITEment
- Mona Lisa's smile
- In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about how the Mona Lisa's smile appears to change depending on where on her face you look. (Learn more)
- Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Creative communication frames: Discovering similarities between writing and art
- In this lesson from ReadWritethink, students will build a comparative frame to explore the creative processes of writing and art as communication. Students will use graphic organizers to assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Art algorithms
- In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about new methods of art conservation. Art conservation is traditionally a painstaking and time-consuming business. (Learn more)
- Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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