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Art and Sole
First graders discuss how culture can be transmitted from generation to generation. In groups, they create a bust of themselves after viewing various artists artwork. They also develop their own dance routine and perform it in front of...
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town: The Reader as Writer
Students read a play and create their own play using Thornton Wilder's Our Townas a resource. In this play instructional activity, students analyze how theatrical elements contribute to a play's meanings and effects. Students recognize...
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Decoding Haring's Symbols
Young scholars mix colors and complete a yarn painting by using yarn to paint. In this painting lesson plan, students base this painting off of the lines and paint strokes of Keith Haring.
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Literature Connections Further Reading Related Reading The Diary of Anne Frank
Students read and discuss The Diary of Anne Frank, a diary of a Jewish girl who hid from the Nazi's in Holland. The research the Holocaust and express their feelings in artwork.
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Children's Books
Students explore daily dilemmas students face. They write and illustrate a story book dealing with one dilemma. Students write reviews of their books. They read their books to second grade students. Additional cross curriculum activities...
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The Relationship Between Zen And Haiku Aesthetics
High schoolers examine the principles of Haiku as they relate to idealss found in Zen Buddhism in this High School lesson. The lesson concludes with the creation of individual haikus by each student.
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The Role of the Museum
Learners identify the role of the museum as a cultural resource in the community. They use primary and secondary sources to evaluate institutional, and media influences on people and society in both historical and contemporary settings.
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The Civil War
Students examine the events of the Civil War. Using the internet, they research one aspect of the war of interest to them. In groups, they create a hyperstudio stack which they present to their classmates showing the information they...
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Rijksmuseum: Rembrandt's "The Night Watch"
A full-featured exploration of Rembrandt's "The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch," better known as "The Night Watch." Learn who is in the painting, the symbols in it, what makes "The Night Watch" innovative,...
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ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
In this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Looking at Art: Rembrandt Self Portrait
From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this is a learning exercise called Looking at Art which deals with the theme of portraits using the example of Rembrandt's self-portrait, 1629.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
New York Times
New York Times: Vincent Van Gogh: A Draftsman's Fist
Michael Kimmelman, art critic for the New York Times, narrates a walk-through slideshow of an exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. Wonderful examples of Van Gogh's landscapes and...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Portrait, Please! [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars are guided in how to interpret a portrait and in how to plan a portrait that is a drawing or a photograph.