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Ansel
Adams and the Nature of Expressive Portraiture In this multi-session lesson, students will be introduced to the portraiture work of acclaimed photographer, Ansel Adams. Adams, best known for his black and white landscapes of Yosemite National Park and the California coast, did not confine himself to just one subject area. |
Visual & Performing Arts CA Standards |
6-8 | |||
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The Art of Photo-Collage In this one to two-session lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of photo-collage. Photo-collages allow students to combine different pictures into one new composition. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Lanugage
Arts CA Standards |
4-8 | |||
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Become an Ethnographic
Photographer Ethnography is the study of specific cultures. An ethnographic photographer uses photography to study the traditions, customs, daily life, ceremonies, and people of particular cultures. In this lesson, students will document their own culture through photography. |
Visual & Performing Arts, History-Social
Science, English-Lanugage Arts CA Standards |
9-12 | |||
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Elements
of Visual Art - Shape In this one-session lesson, students will be able to identify shapes in art. Students will then create a piece of artwork using geometric shapes. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts, Mathematics CA Standards |
K-2 | |||
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Elements
of Visual Art - Texture In this one-session lesson, students will be able to identify texture in works of art. Students will then create a texture collage. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts CA Standards |
K-2 | |||
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Globalization - Cultural
Viewpoints of Symbols In this two-session lesson, the students will examine artwork that discusses cultural convergence, and create a mixed-media collage that represents this concept. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts CA Standards |
4-6 | |||
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Personal
Portraiture In this one to two session lesson, students will combine aspects of composition, vantage points, and text to create a personal portrait expressing thought and emotions. Students will explore selected images while considering the concepts of portraiture and self-portraiture. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Lanugage
Arts CA Standards |
4-6 | |||
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Photojournalism In this lesson students will choose a historical or present-day event to portray through photographs. The students will narrate this event with photographs and text to communicate its significance in history or our current daily lives. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts CA Standards |
9-12 | |||
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Recycled Sculpture In this one-session lesson, students will use recycled materials to create a sculpture using additive and subtractive processes. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts, Science CA Standards |
4-6 | |||
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Sunprints
In this one-session lesson, students will be introduced to Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) and will create sunprints. Using photographs from a variety of time periods, students will discuss and analyze the subjects, the time period, and photographers’ angles. Students will also record their ideas and reflections. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts CA Standards |
4-6 | |||
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Sunprints for Grades
K-3 In this one-session lesson, students will be introduced to Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), discuss the subjects in cyanotypes, and create sunprints. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts CA Standards |
K-3 | |||
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Sunprints for Grades
9-12 In this two-session lesson, students will be introduced to the process of making cyanotypes. They will mix photographic chemicals to create and make large scale sunprints. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts CA Standards |
9-12 | |||
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Time
- Art and Permanence In this three-session lesson, the students will use natural and recycled objects arranged in a plastic container to create a gelatin cast of the objects and the negative space around them. |
Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language
Arts CA Standards |
4-6 | |||
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Transforming
Space Most people are familiar with artists using traditional materials to paint and sculpt with like oil paint, stone, and clay. However, many contemporary artists have been known to use unconventional art materials. Some artists use everyday objects like toothpicks, pencils, and bottles to create beautiful sculptures. In this one-session lesson, students will use an unconventional material to create installation art. The students will also identify and describe characteristics of contemporary artwork, both verbally and in writing. |
Visual & Performing
Arts, English-Language Arts, Mathematics CA Standard |
4-6 | |||
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