Lesson Plans - Grades: 6,7,8
Photography and Vantage Points
In this one-session lesson, students will be introduced to Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) and vantage points. 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.
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Medium: Photography
Related Subjects: English - Language Arts, Visual & Performing Arts
Time: 1 X 50 minute session
Photography Portfolio
In Session One of this lesson, the students will use their knowledge of photographic vantage points to take photographs for a portfolio.
Grades: 4, 5, 6
Medium: Photography
Related Subjects: English - Language Arts, Visual & Performing Arts
Time: 3 X 50 minute sessions
Printmaking, Advanced
Printmaking occurs when a copy of an image is made by impressing paper against an inked printing surface. That surface is frequently a relief surface, as in wood-cuts, or an incised surface, such as engraving and etching, though some print processes use a flat surface and rely instead on water and oil resist to make the image, as in lithography.
Grades: 6, 7, 8
Medium: Painting
Related Subjects: English - Language Arts, Visual & Performing Arts
Time: 2 X 50 minute sessions
Recycled Sculpture
In this one-session lesson, students will use recycled materials to create a sculpture using additive and subtractive processes.
Grades: 3, 4, 5, 6
Medium: Mixed Media, Sculpture
Related Subjects: English - Language Arts, Visual & Performing Arts
Time: 1 X 50 minute session
Ritual Vessel
n this lesson students will use their knowledge of geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of Ancient Civilizations, Medieval, and/or Early Modern Times to create their own ritual vessels out of clay.
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Medium: Sculpture
Related Subjects: English - Language Arts, History - Social Science, Visual & Performing Arts
Time: 3 X 50 minute sessions
