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- Burke Arts Council
- Visit the three galleries housed in the Burke Arts Council to experience the visual arts of the Southern Appalachian region.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy
- Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Rethinking Reports
- Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- North Carolina State University Gallery of Art and Design
- Guided tours of the NCSU Gallery of Art and Design's collections and exhibitions are available for school groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Resources for looking at art
- A guide to some of the best websites, activities, and print resources for building visual literacy through the study of art.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Asheville Art Museum
- Through works of art in permanent and special exhibition, students will learn about the rich history of visual arts in North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Afro-American Cultural Center
- This cultural center was created to preserve the visual and performing arts heritages of African-Americans and other minorities. The Center has an art gallery with “over 100 works of art from renowned artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, John Biggers.” It also offers art classes to all age groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Design
- Both math and art include elements of design. Explore the relationship between form and function as well as pattern, shape, and space using these educational resources.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Cross-checking: An early reading strategy
- Beginning readers need to learn how to bring together two sources of information simultaneously. They have to think about what would make sense and think about letters/sounds; cross-checking. Most children prefer to do one or the other, but not both. Therefore, some children guess something that is sensible but ignore the visual (letter/sound) and others guess something which is close to the visual but makes no sense in the sentence. This activity will demonstrate how to cross check.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Jane Kate Blackmon.
- Undersea exploration
- Students explore the lifeforms and land formations under the ocean. The three ocean levels and their respective lifeforms are investigated and discussed, focusing on shape, form, and color. Students will gain a better understanding of the connections between the science and arts curriculum.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education, Dance Arts Education, and Music Education)
- By Russ Johnson.
- Caricature character tour
- Students create a caricature of a literary character using magazine cutouts to practice reading for details and characterization.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Janice Ianniello.
- Geometry and art: Art museum pre-visit
- This lesson is the first of a three-part unit integrating math, writing and visual arts. In this discovery learning activity, students look at and compare two works of art. The paintings are quite different, but they contain many examples of geometric shapes. Students then complete a comment sheet, explaining what is similar and different about the works of art. This lesson can be used alone or used to prepare students for an art museum visit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Loretta Hopper.
- Singing the "Song of Life"
- This lesson requires students to use their reading, comprehension, and analysis skills to analyze a poem and respond creatively to the selection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Angela Taylor.
- The Iredell Museums: The Children's Museum
- From hands-on learning experiences in the arts, culture and sciences to exhibits, programs, classes, and performances there is so much to do at the Children's Museum.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Intrigue of the Past
- Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- The taste of relevance
- Students will learn the importance of selecting relevant details by picking the right toppings for an ice cream sundae. This activity gives the students a concrete visual memory of what good details are.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Learning to Read
- Young children love to be read to and look forward to reading themselves. This sampling of resources provide activities that are fun and stimulate interest in reading.
- Format: bibliography/help
- What's happening now?
- This comprehension and writing lesson helps the student develop skills in predicting what will happen next and sequencing. It also develops the ability to answer what, where, when, and how questions. It can also include a writing activity that teaches writing in a newspaper format by answering the "W" questions and creating a class newspaper book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Nancy McGowan.
- Gorgeous glittery glasses
- The students will use lower case g to create glasses for letter g representation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Debbie Davis.
- YMI Cultural Center
- This cultural center was created to preserve the visual and performing arts heritages of African-Americans and other minorities. The Center has an art gallery with over 100 works of art from renowned artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, John Biggers. It also offers art classes to all age groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
