Visual Arts Electives

Looking back - An Art/English interdisciplinary unit

This is an interdisciplinary unit that incorporates research of historical events of the past century. By students learning to recognize that society impacts the themes within art and literature, students then take this knowledge base and interview an individual to develop a biographical narrative, a collage, and oral presentation.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)

By Julie Osmon.

Resources on the web

Monsters

In this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, students use Beowulf to investigate views about “monsters” in society. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Music Education)

Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Images at war

Students examine American attitudes toward war as revealed in Civil War photographs and World War II homefront posters. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Five artists of the Mexican Revolution

In this ARTESEDGE lesson, students research the major events and personalities in the Mexican Revolution, and explore how these people and events influenced the art being created at that time in Mexico. Using the guided directives, students learn about... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education, Second Languages, and Social Studies)

Provided by: 92