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

Visual Arts Education — Kindergarten

Goal 1, Objective 1.08

Goal 1

The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.

Objective 1.08

Create work that does not conform to adult standards of realism.

Resources aligned to this objective

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Pre-Visit: Seasonal Landscapes (Farms)
The following lesson is the first of three lessons studying the seasons and farms through landscape drawing, painting, and writing. In the first pre-visit activity the students will examine Grant Wood's lithographs and painting landscapes. Our observations of Wood's artwork will prepare us for our trip to a local landscape (farm) to sketch our own seasonal landscapes. We will visit and sketch the farm four times, once during each season.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)
By Jamie Barnhill.

Lesson plans on the web

Adjective Monster
Students explore the connections between visual art and language arts, and how both are used to creatively tell stories and express emotions. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Mathematics)
Provider: ARTSEDGE: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Right whales and people
Students will learn about the highly endangered northern right whale and think about how this species' geographical distribution places it in direct contact with human threats such as ships. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)
Provider: National Geographic
Sunflowers
Van Gogh's depiction of sunflowers is used as a means of focusing on the parts of a flower, growing sunflowers in the classroom, and developing students' artistic impressions of sunflowers. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education and Science)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Unicorns, dragons, and other magical creatures
Students will discuss the special attributes of such creatures, view images of mythological creatures, and listen to stories about them. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 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