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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

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