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Brooklyn Museum

HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Visual arts lessons don't always mean the children need to make art. Here, they will practice using their visual literacy skills to analyze four images through the compare and contrast method. The first two images deal with gender...
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Andy Warhol and Silkscreen Pop Art

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore art history by researching famous paintings on-line. In this Andy Warhol lesson, students discuss who Warhol was, his impact on popular art and methods of painting. Students examine his use of silk screen printing and...
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Personal Identity Bust

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a ceramic bust of themselves.
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Silhouettes and Interiors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a multimedia piece that integrates drawing and collage. Students learn about metacognition and the discovering of self through genres of art and literature by using these steps: inspiration, brainstorm,...
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People, Places, and Things

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars review art history in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. In this art history lesson plan, students discuss art vocabulary emphasizing landscape, portrait, and still life. They visit the museum and create their own pictures. 
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Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze portraits of Ernest Hemingway to see how his private and public personalities are revealed through them. In this "Picturing Hemingway" lesson, students complete a variety of activities to investigate public and private...
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Technology - Identity - Watercolor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use a grayscale digital photo of self and draw the texture of their hair in a linear fashion. They create a background which relates to the PTA Reflections contest using the internet as a resource.
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Myth of the Western Man

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars identify ways in which history and culture influence identity. They make a time-line and research dates to identify their significance, as well as, create a self portrait pictorially or verbally, that explores the...
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Gotta Be Me

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students create model societies. In this social identity instructional activity, students conduct research so that they can plan and present model societies to their classmates. The societies must include information regarding how their...
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Reflections in the Mirror A Visual Journal and Mural Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine and analyze works of art by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. They create journals that follow the form and content of Kahlo's diary, and murals in the spirit of Rivera.
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Catherine Opie

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils investigate the artwork of Catherine Opie. They participate in a instructional activity that exposes them to her art before visiting an art exhibit at The Orange County Museum of Art in California. They create their own works of...
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Who am I? Bookmaking

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the process of bookmaking that has its origins from many different international cultures. The multicultural symbolism represented by the medium is utilized by students to expres their identity.
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The Meishi Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
For this Meishi game worksheet, pupils create six small identity cards, exchange them as self-introduction cards with other students and try to collect as many cards as they can to win the game.
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The Mystique of the Artist

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners use mixed media to create personal expression on canvas art supplies bag, design three-dimensional model of their ideal studio space, write character sketch of Robert Harris using images of him, letter he wrote, and his art work...
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Communicating Who I Am

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners practice their Spanish grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and pronunciation skills by creating a personal portrait and personal narrative, and sharing it with native Spanish speakers via email.
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3-Dimensional People

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students collect objects that represent themselves. In a class discussion, they consider how they are seen and understood by others. Students create two sculptures, one of how others see them and another of how they see themselves.
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Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections by Angela Shelf Medearis

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore how adolescents attempt to tain peer acceptance.
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Contemporary: An Alternative Magazine

For Teachers 8th
Students create a magazine that is circulated in an alternative format. They design each issue in the form of a student-created box. They explore issues relating to experiences of young people in different times and places.
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Ice Breakers and First Day Activities

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Build rapport and engage students with get-to-know-you activities
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What is Me?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use the internet to research the different meanings of their names. In groups, they discover their astrological sign and share their opinions about whether they believe in them or not. Individually, they use this information...
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Unit Plan
My Learning

My Learning: Self Image

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the many different ways to create a self-portrait by looking at four artists who each take a different approach.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Delve Deeper Into Art With This Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will explore the relationship between art and identity by comparing and contrasting two works of art.

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