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- Asian action I: Character details
- Students will use drawing and writing to study characters in Asian art, focusing on the potential stories hinted at by the many details depicted in the art examples. This lesson draws on the richly detailed and expressive human and animal characters depicted in the arts of Asia. Is there a reason why Durga has so many arms? What about Ganesha and that elephant head?
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- Describing Japanese screens and scrolls through images
- The second part of a larger unit on talking and writing about, as well as creating, Japanese screen and scroll paintings. The purpose of this unit plan is to introduce descriptive aspects of art criticism, while teaching the art and culture of Japan. Students create illustrations of classmates' descriptions of Japanese screens or scrolls.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education)
- By Michelle Harrell.
- Describing Japanese screens and scrolls through words
- The first part of a unit on talking and writing about, as well as creating, Japanese screen and scroll paintings. The purpose of this unit plan is to introduce descriptive aspects of art criticism, while teaching appreciation for the art and culture of Japan. Students use observation and descriptive writing to discover richly detailed Japanese screen and scroll paintings so that another student can illustrate it in the next lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Michelle Harrell.
- Issues, we've all got them: Language arts/visual arts integration
- Students will learn how to deal positively with social issues important in their lives through personal investigation of social issues addressed in literature and art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and English Language Development)
- By Runell Carpenter.
- Personal picture narratives: Jacob Lawrence
- In this second grade lesson students will look closely at paintings by Lawrence depicting historical figures. Students will identify Lawrence’s unique style from work by other artists based on the elements of color and shape. They will create a painting using the same art elements to create a picture depicting an imagined scene from the life of Harriet Tubman.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education)
- By Eileen Palamountain.
- Seasonal farm landscapes
- Students will have visited the farm landscape four times throughout the year, recording their observations during four seasons. The drawings will incorporate their knowledge of farms from our visits, their exposure to the seasonal landscapes of Grant Wood and Claude Monet, and their knowledge of landscape art and its elements of color and perspective developed at the Museum. The final project will be individual student books containing their landscape drawings and text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education)
- By Jamie Barnhill.
- Starry Night
- This lesson will introduce the artist Vincent Van Gogh and give students the opportunity to respond to his work. We will explore theme, color, and line while examining the painting "Starry Night" and creating our own pictures using a combination of oil pastel plus cut and paste.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education)
- By Martha Pearson.
- Vessels in Greek art: Museum visit
- This lesson focuses on the uses, shapes, importance, and historical storytelling on Greek vessels in art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education)
- By Katie O'Connor.
- What do you see? (post-visit)
- In this lesson, students will use observations and reflections made while visiting the Ackland Art Museum to draw conclusions about interpreting artwork (and other works/events), make quality scientific observations, and see how these concepts are related. Students will be reproducing artwork they viewed at the museum, sharing their personal interpretations of various works, and analyzing how the presentation of information (in any situation) can influence our interpretations of a work or event. This lesson is the final lesson in the series of lessons, "What Do YOU See?", which uses the Ackland Art Museum as a resource.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Visual Arts Education)
- By Reagan West.
- What makes you scream?
- Students will study Edvard Munch's painting The Scream. They will then produce their own scream using directional lines as Munch did. Line was used by Munch in a variety of directions—horizontal, vertical and diagonal. This will help the eye travel to the central theme of the composition: the person's fright or what they fear.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Visual Arts Education)
- By Cathy Crumpler.
