Lesson Plans - Subject: Visual & Performing Arts
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
Photojournalism
A photograph can tell a story about events, people, places, and situations. Photojournalists are usually assigned by newspapers and magazines to take a variety of photographs related to an event. Their photographs are often accompanied by captions that explain the photograph.
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Medium: Mixed Media, Photography
Related Subjects: English - Language Arts, Visual & Performing Arts
Time: 2 X 50 minute sessions
Portrait in Fruit
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was born in Milan, Italy. He is most famous for his paintings completed for the Hapsburg Court of Vienna between 1562 and 1587. His distinctive style combined fruit, vegetables, meat, and other organic objects in the form of the human face.
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3
Medium: Drawing
Related Subjects: English - Language Arts, History - Social Science, Mathematics, Visual & Performing Arts
Time: 2 X 40 minute sessions
Portrait Sculptures
In this four-session lesson, students will identify characteristics that they have in common with animals. Based on these similar characteristics, the students will create a self-portrait sculpture combining the body structures of different animals.
Grades: 3, 4, 5
Medium: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture
Related Subjects: English - Language Arts, Visual & Performing Arts
Time: 1 X 90 minute session
