Lesson plans
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Public Programs curriculum for the Let's Dance! exhibit
Curriculum PDF
Act it Out! Movement Stories: Pretend to be a mouse, an elf, a sculptor or even a pickle as we act out stories with our bodies in the Let’s Dance! exhibit.
Lesson 1: Place & Shape
Lesson 2: Weight & Direction
Lesson 3: Levels & Pathways
Move & Groove Sing Along: Get up and dance in this program while singing songs about language, exercise, science and more! Follow along with our museum educators as they teach you some fun dance moves.
Lesson 1: Move & Groove with Language
Lesson 2: Move & Groove with Coordination
Lesson 3: Move & Groove with STEAM
Take the Stage: What kinds of props will we use today as we take the stage? Join in during for a variety of games, movement activities, and music making in our Let’s Dance! exhibit.
Lesson 1: Games
Lesson 2: Movement
Lesson 3: Music
Curriculum PDF
Act it Out! Movement Stories: Pretend to be a mouse, an elf, a sculptor or even a pickle as we act out stories with our bodies in the Let’s Dance! exhibit.
Lesson 1: Place & Shape
Lesson 2: Weight & Direction
Lesson 3: Levels & Pathways
Move & Groove Sing Along: Get up and dance in this program while singing songs about language, exercise, science and more! Follow along with our museum educators as they teach you some fun dance moves.
Lesson 1: Move & Groove with Language
Lesson 2: Move & Groove with Coordination
Lesson 3: Move & Groove with STEAM
Take the Stage: What kinds of props will we use today as we take the stage? Join in during for a variety of games, movement activities, and music making in our Let’s Dance! exhibit.
Lesson 1: Games
Lesson 2: Movement
Lesson 3: Music
surreal photoshop
Lesson Plan
Fairfield Freshman School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Surrealism
Grade Level: 9
Time Frame: 11 classes (45 minutes each)
Link to presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson introduces the art genre, surrealism, and allows students to design and create their own surrealist compositions. Students will be introduced to Photoshop and learn how to edit photos to create a surreal composition. Students will also write an artist statement to accompany their projects and describe the inspiration.
Fairfield Freshman School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Surrealism
Grade Level: 9
Time Frame: 11 classes (45 minutes each)
Link to presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson introduces the art genre, surrealism, and allows students to design and create their own surrealist compositions. Students will be introduced to Photoshop and learn how to edit photos to create a surreal composition. Students will also write an artist statement to accompany their projects and describe the inspiration.
Student Work
the mannequin project
Lesson Plan
Fairfield Freshman School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Figure drawing and shading
Grade Level: 9
Time Frame: 10 classes (45 minutes each)
Link to presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson introduces students to proportional figure drawing and shading value with wooden mannequins. The students will learn to draw figures with correct proportions and will draw from life, as well as from photographs. Students will create a composition encompassing white figures on black paper.
Fairfield Freshman School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Figure drawing and shading
Grade Level: 9
Time Frame: 10 classes (45 minutes each)
Link to presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson introduces students to proportional figure drawing and shading value with wooden mannequins. The students will learn to draw figures with correct proportions and will draw from life, as well as from photographs. Students will create a composition encompassing white figures on black paper.
Student Work
pop art portraits
Lesson Plan 1: Introduction to Pop Art Portraits: Contour Line Drawing
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 40 minutes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is meant to reintroduce Pop Art in a deeper fashion, with an emphasis on portraits. The students will closely read and dissect a description of Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe in order to color the black and white image. They will then discuss the visual effects of the image and compare it to another Warhol work. Students will learn about portraits, contour line, and how to make their own portrait into a contour line drawing to eventually create a final pop art portrait.
Lesson Rationale: Pop art is an era in art history beginning in the 1960s. Students can emulate the famous pop artist, Andy Warhol, and his screen prints by creating their own colorful pop art portraits. Students will use critical thinking to discuss his artworks. They will practice skill in contour line drawing, and craft in their work.
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 40 minutes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is meant to reintroduce Pop Art in a deeper fashion, with an emphasis on portraits. The students will closely read and dissect a description of Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe in order to color the black and white image. They will then discuss the visual effects of the image and compare it to another Warhol work. Students will learn about portraits, contour line, and how to make their own portrait into a contour line drawing to eventually create a final pop art portrait.
Lesson Rationale: Pop art is an era in art history beginning in the 1960s. Students can emulate the famous pop artist, Andy Warhol, and his screen prints by creating their own colorful pop art portraits. Students will use critical thinking to discuss his artworks. They will practice skill in contour line drawing, and craft in their work.
Lesson Plan 2: Pop Art Portraits- Just Add Color!
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 40 minutes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is continuing the learning sequence, “Pop Art Portraits.” The students will continue discussing visual effects and talk about how a portrait pose or color scheme can express the personality of the figure. They will relate that to their own portrait by discussing what 2 analogous and 1 compliment color scheme will best describe their personality seen through their pose. They will practice painting with acrylic paint.
Lesson Rationale: Students will continue to examine the famous works of Pop Artist, Andy Warhol. Students will transform their contour line drawings into colorful portraits with thorough intention. They will practice skill in painting, terminology, and keeping strong pigment when painting.
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 40 minutes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is continuing the learning sequence, “Pop Art Portraits.” The students will continue discussing visual effects and talk about how a portrait pose or color scheme can express the personality of the figure. They will relate that to their own portrait by discussing what 2 analogous and 1 compliment color scheme will best describe their personality seen through their pose. They will practice painting with acrylic paint.
Lesson Rationale: Students will continue to examine the famous works of Pop Artist, Andy Warhol. Students will transform their contour line drawings into colorful portraits with thorough intention. They will practice skill in painting, terminology, and keeping strong pigment when painting.
Lesson Plan 3: Pop Art Backgrounds & Critique
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 80 minutes- 2 days
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is the last part of the learning segment, “Pop Art Portraits,” where students will discuss why we make art and what inspires us. Students will also create a Pop Art background that is reflective of their own popular culture, by reusing a prior learned printmaking technique. Students will emboss Styrofoam to stamp a wallpaper printed background, which will be positioned behind their portrait to create their final project. Students will also analyze and reflect on their works and the works of others in a formal critique.
Lesson Rationale: It is important for students to discuss the reasons for making art because it encourages them to think about how art is used for a variety of reasons including self-expression, social activism, or decoration. Students can begin to feel empowered through the art they make. In combining elements and principles of art, students will create finalized, thematic self-portraits that express their own personality and an aspect of their popular culture. Participating in a formal critique will exercise critical thinking and reflective analysis.
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 80 minutes- 2 days
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is the last part of the learning segment, “Pop Art Portraits,” where students will discuss why we make art and what inspires us. Students will also create a Pop Art background that is reflective of their own popular culture, by reusing a prior learned printmaking technique. Students will emboss Styrofoam to stamp a wallpaper printed background, which will be positioned behind their portrait to create their final project. Students will also analyze and reflect on their works and the works of others in a formal critique.
Lesson Rationale: It is important for students to discuss the reasons for making art because it encourages them to think about how art is used for a variety of reasons including self-expression, social activism, or decoration. Students can begin to feel empowered through the art they make. In combining elements and principles of art, students will create finalized, thematic self-portraits that express their own personality and an aspect of their popular culture. Participating in a formal critique will exercise critical thinking and reflective analysis.
Student Work
Pop art prints
Lesson Plan
Fairfield East Elementary
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 3 40 minutes
Link to presentation
Lesson Narrative: In this lesson, students will continue to discuss Pop Art and learn the process of printmaking. Students will choose iconic images from their own popular culture to design matrixes for printing a quadric artwork.
Fairfield East Elementary
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 3 40 minutes
Link to presentation
Lesson Narrative: In this lesson, students will continue to discuss Pop Art and learn the process of printmaking. Students will choose iconic images from their own popular culture to design matrixes for printing a quadric artwork.
Student Work
Road trip
Lesson Plan
Fairfield East Elementary School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Multimedia
Grade Level: 1
Time Frame: 3 40 minute classes
Lesson Narrative: In this lesson students will create a multimedia Road Trip themed artwork where they will learn how to use various materials such as pastel, construction paper and sponge paint.
Fairfield East Elementary School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Multimedia
Grade Level: 1
Time Frame: 3 40 minute classes
Lesson Narrative: In this lesson students will create a multimedia Road Trip themed artwork where they will learn how to use various materials such as pastel, construction paper and sponge paint.
Student Work
Onomatopoeia
Lesson Plan
Fairfield East Elementary
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 3 40 minute classes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is an introduction to Pop Art where students will learn what Pop Art is, and view references from famous Pop Artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Students will talk about comics and learn the word “onomatopoeia.” They will choose their own onomatopoeia word to create a Pop Art inspired exclamation.
Fairfield East Elementary
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Pop Art
Grade Level: 4
Time Frame: 3 40 minute classes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is an introduction to Pop Art where students will learn what Pop Art is, and view references from famous Pop Artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Students will talk about comics and learn the word “onomatopoeia.” They will choose their own onomatopoeia word to create a Pop Art inspired exclamation.
Student Work
Invent!
Lesson Plan
Fairfield East Elementary School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Watercolor inventions
Grade Level: 3
Time Frame: 4 40 minute classes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson encourages students to design their own invention after creating Leonardo da Vinci’s. Students will brainstorm ideas and sketch them, as well as practice watercolor techniques prior to create a final watercolor invention painting.
Fairfield East Elementary School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Watercolor inventions
Grade Level: 3
Time Frame: 4 40 minute classes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson encourages students to design their own invention after creating Leonardo da Vinci’s. Students will brainstorm ideas and sketch them, as well as practice watercolor techniques prior to create a final watercolor invention painting.
Student Work
The flying machine
Lesson Plan
Fairfield East Elementary School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine
Grade Level: 3
Time Frame: 3 40 minute classes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is based off of Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine design found in one of his notebooks. The students will create a colorful replica and learn about form, pattern, symmetry, sculpture and making an object aerodynamic.
Fairfield East Elementary School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine
Grade Level: 3
Time Frame: 3 40 minute classes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Narrative: This lesson is based off of Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine design found in one of his notebooks. The students will create a colorful replica and learn about form, pattern, symmetry, sculpture and making an object aerodynamic.
Student Work
Constellation telescope
Lesson Plan
Fairfield East Elementary School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Constellations
Grade Level: 2
Time Frame: 3 40 minute classes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Overview: This lesson allows students to learn about constellations and create a galaxy painted watercolor telescope where they can see 3 different constellations when looking through it. Students will learn about various watercolor techniques.
Fairfield East Elementary School
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Constellations
Grade Level: 2
Time Frame: 3 40 minute classes
Link to Presentation
Lesson Overview: This lesson allows students to learn about constellations and create a galaxy painted watercolor telescope where they can see 3 different constellations when looking through it. Students will learn about various watercolor techniques.
Student Work
Inventions of LEONARDo da vinci
Lesson Plan
Sweetwater Center for the Arts Summer Camp: Week 3 (Afternoon)
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Inventions and artworks of Leonardo da Vinci
Grade Level: Children (7-10)
Time Frame: 3 hrs per class/ 5 classes
Lesson Overview: Children will learn and be inspired by the great master, Leonardo da Vinci. We will learn all about da Vinci’s art and inventions as we draw, paint, and make our own da Vinci inspired inventions out of recycled materials. Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate “Renaissance man.” He may be most famous as an artist having painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but da Vinci did so much more. He was an engineer, an inventor, an architect, a mathematician etc. It is up to us to understand the genius and mastered craftsman that da Vinci was in his time. We will look at and remake many of his famous works while creating our own da Vinci-like inventions and ideas.
Sweetwater Center for the Arts Summer Camp: Week 3 (Afternoon)
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Inventions and artworks of Leonardo da Vinci
Grade Level: Children (7-10)
Time Frame: 3 hrs per class/ 5 classes
Lesson Overview: Children will learn and be inspired by the great master, Leonardo da Vinci. We will learn all about da Vinci’s art and inventions as we draw, paint, and make our own da Vinci inspired inventions out of recycled materials. Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate “Renaissance man.” He may be most famous as an artist having painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but da Vinci did so much more. He was an engineer, an inventor, an architect, a mathematician etc. It is up to us to understand the genius and mastered craftsman that da Vinci was in his time. We will look at and remake many of his famous works while creating our own da Vinci-like inventions and ideas.
Student Work
Ah! real monsters
Lesson Plan
Sweetwater Center for the Arts Summer Camp: Week 5 (Morning)
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Monsters
Grade Level: Children (7-10)
Time Frame: 3 hrs per class/ 5 classes
Lesson Overview: Campers will dive into a wacky world of fantastical creatures and goofy beasts as they create their very own monster pals. Campers will first learn to bring their creation to life through drawing and painting. The camp also includes stop motion animation with clay characters and paper mache that will bring the monsters from the page and into our world. Beware! Imagination is the key to being an artist, and monsters are the perfect creatures to exercise the mind! Monsters are iconic in literature, movies, television shows and more. From Frankenstein to Monsters Inc., they come in infinite shapes and sizes with features taken from animals, humans, sea creatures etc. Students will discuss the questions: What is a monster? What makes something a monster? What emotions do we associate with monsters?
Sweetwater Center for the Arts Summer Camp: Week 5 (Morning)
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Monsters
Grade Level: Children (7-10)
Time Frame: 3 hrs per class/ 5 classes
Lesson Overview: Campers will dive into a wacky world of fantastical creatures and goofy beasts as they create their very own monster pals. Campers will first learn to bring their creation to life through drawing and painting. The camp also includes stop motion animation with clay characters and paper mache that will bring the monsters from the page and into our world. Beware! Imagination is the key to being an artist, and monsters are the perfect creatures to exercise the mind! Monsters are iconic in literature, movies, television shows and more. From Frankenstein to Monsters Inc., they come in infinite shapes and sizes with features taken from animals, humans, sea creatures etc. Students will discuss the questions: What is a monster? What makes something a monster? What emotions do we associate with monsters?
Student Work
Stop Motion Animation Shorts
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a trip to the zoo
Lesson Plan
Sweetwater Center for the Arts Summer Camp: Week 6 (Afternoon)
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Zoo animals
Grade Level: Preschool (4-6)
Time Frame: 3 hrs per class/ 5 classes
Lesson Overview: Lions and tigers and bears? Oh yes! Children will learn about their favorite zoo animals as they create their own animal kingdom using a variety of techniques including painting and stuff paper sculpture. This class will enhance the knowledge of countless animals including zebras, leopards, chameleons, lions, monkeys and more! They will sing songs, learn about animals traits as well as tons of art mediums from paper crafts to watercolor sponge techniques.
Sweetwater Center for the Arts Summer Camp: Week 6 (Afternoon)
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Zoo animals
Grade Level: Preschool (4-6)
Time Frame: 3 hrs per class/ 5 classes
Lesson Overview: Lions and tigers and bears? Oh yes! Children will learn about their favorite zoo animals as they create their own animal kingdom using a variety of techniques including painting and stuff paper sculpture. This class will enhance the knowledge of countless animals including zebras, leopards, chameleons, lions, monkeys and more! They will sing songs, learn about animals traits as well as tons of art mediums from paper crafts to watercolor sponge techniques.
Student Work
Abstract Plants
Saturday Art Lesson Plan 1
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Abstraction
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Lesson Overview: This lesson introduced the idea of fiction and how it can be seen in art. We first compared fact and fiction, our theme for the semester, and then compared realism and abstraction in art. The students had the chance to create their own watercolor abstract plant that was derived from their own pose. Their silhouettes were the basis to their plants, as well as pictures of real flowers, which together created imaginative and colorful fictional plant designs.
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Abstraction
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Lesson Overview: This lesson introduced the idea of fiction and how it can be seen in art. We first compared fact and fiction, our theme for the semester, and then compared realism and abstraction in art. The students had the chance to create their own watercolor abstract plant that was derived from their own pose. Their silhouettes were the basis to their plants, as well as pictures of real flowers, which together created imaginative and colorful fictional plant designs.
Student Work
Goin' on a bear hunt
Saturday Art Lesson Plan 2
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Installation Art
Lesson Overview: This lesson is a part of the fiction curriculum. The students learned about installation art through Yayoi Kusama’s work and connected it to theatre sets and dramatic play. With the room decorated to look like an adventure, the kids were grouped into teams to create a piece of installation art that was used as a location in our adventure. The students took part in the active call and response song, “Goin’ on a Bear Hunt,” where we acted out an adventure through a lake, mountain, thunder storm, mud creek, wheat field and a cave to find a bear.
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Installation Art
Lesson Overview: This lesson is a part of the fiction curriculum. The students learned about installation art through Yayoi Kusama’s work and connected it to theatre sets and dramatic play. With the room decorated to look like an adventure, the kids were grouped into teams to create a piece of installation art that was used as a location in our adventure. The students took part in the active call and response song, “Goin’ on a Bear Hunt,” where we acted out an adventure through a lake, mountain, thunder storm, mud creek, wheat field and a cave to find a bear.
Student Work
imaginary friends
Saturday Art Lesson Plan 3
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Fictional storytelling
Lesson Overview: In this lesson the students learned about components of a story and were active participants in storytelling with characters and sets designed by them. We dove into storytelling with the Lipa Theatre App where the students were asked to choose characters, backgrounds and actions to a story that the teacher created in the app. This app is great for students to use themselves as well! The students then learned the parts of a story including rising action, climax and falling action, which served as a basis to the stories they made with their classmates. By looking at fictional character makers like Marius Valdes and his Secret Species, the students created their own invented imaginary friends to use as characters. Their stories were filmed.
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Fictional storytelling
Lesson Overview: In this lesson the students learned about components of a story and were active participants in storytelling with characters and sets designed by them. We dove into storytelling with the Lipa Theatre App where the students were asked to choose characters, backgrounds and actions to a story that the teacher created in the app. This app is great for students to use themselves as well! The students then learned the parts of a story including rising action, climax and falling action, which served as a basis to the stories they made with their classmates. By looking at fictional character makers like Marius Valdes and his Secret Species, the students created their own invented imaginary friends to use as characters. Their stories were filmed.
Student Work
Dali the dinosaur
Saturday Art Lesson Plan 4
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Introducing Surrealism
Lesson Overview: This lesson will continue the conversation of fiction and imagination, and will introduce surrealist art. The students will create a face-in-whole artwork in which they will paint the outside of an animal, object or thing to personify themselves when they place their face in the hole. They will choose this “thing” based on alliteration with their own names. After completing this, the teachers will paint their faces to make an optical illusion of themselves in their artwork, making a personification of their “thing.”
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Introducing Surrealism
Lesson Overview: This lesson will continue the conversation of fiction and imagination, and will introduce surrealist art. The students will create a face-in-whole artwork in which they will paint the outside of an animal, object or thing to personify themselves when they place their face in the hole. They will choose this “thing” based on alliteration with their own names. After completing this, the teachers will paint their faces to make an optical illusion of themselves in their artwork, making a personification of their “thing.”
Facial proportion pixel portraits
Ridgeway Elementary Integrated Lesson Plan
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Mathematical proportions and measurements
Grade Level: 6th grade
Integrated Subject: Mathematics
Time Frame: 1 class; 1 hour and 15 minutes
Lesson Overview: During this lesson 6th grade students will explore their own personal face proportions by folding a picture of themselves. Using this grid system students will understand the relationship between facial features, as well as how proportions relate to their face. Once they answer questions regarding specific mathematical expressions of proportional relationships, they will learn about pixels and create a 2-dimensional pixel portrait by pasting construction paper pixels over their own picture. Furthermore, they will also include a background design with the pixels based off of the principle of design, pattern.
Essential Questions:
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Mathematical proportions and measurements
Grade Level: 6th grade
Integrated Subject: Mathematics
Time Frame: 1 class; 1 hour and 15 minutes
Lesson Overview: During this lesson 6th grade students will explore their own personal face proportions by folding a picture of themselves. Using this grid system students will understand the relationship between facial features, as well as how proportions relate to their face. Once they answer questions regarding specific mathematical expressions of proportional relationships, they will learn about pixels and create a 2-dimensional pixel portrait by pasting construction paper pixels over their own picture. Furthermore, they will also include a background design with the pixels based off of the principle of design, pattern.
Essential Questions:
- What are proportions and how do they relate to the face?
- How can we use a grid to understand facial feature relationships?
- What are pixels and how can we use them to represent a principle of design?
Student Work
Abstract low relief sculptures
Saturday Art Lesson Plan 5
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Elements/Principles of Design
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, the students will recap prior knowledge of fiction, abstraction, form, sculpture, and learn about new concepts including the elements and principles of design: rhythm, balance and movement. The students will first created line and shape drawing compositions by rolling line and shape dice. This acts as a constraint as well as a new idea of drawing. We will look at works by Paul Klee and some other relevant pieces done by contemporary artists. The students will eventually make their own “Abstract Low Relief Sculptures” by layering shapes to create a composition containing depth.
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Elements/Principles of Design
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, the students will recap prior knowledge of fiction, abstraction, form, sculpture, and learn about new concepts including the elements and principles of design: rhythm, balance and movement. The students will first created line and shape drawing compositions by rolling line and shape dice. This acts as a constraint as well as a new idea of drawing. We will look at works by Paul Klee and some other relevant pieces done by contemporary artists. The students will eventually make their own “Abstract Low Relief Sculptures” by layering shapes to create a composition containing depth.
Fantasy house collage
Saturday Art Lesson Plan 6
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Architectural Design and Collage
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Lesson Overview: In this project students will take on the role of an architect by designing their own fantasy house. Students will look at Phineas and Ferb’s treehouse, talk about the architect Louis Kahn and learn about collage through the artist Kurt Shwitters. They will then be encouraged to create a creative fantasy house design that can only occur in their wildest dreams. They will then collage this.
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Architectural Design and Collage
Grade level: 1st-2nd
Time frame: 90 min
Lesson Overview: In this project students will take on the role of an architect by designing their own fantasy house. Students will look at Phineas and Ferb’s treehouse, talk about the architect Louis Kahn and learn about collage through the artist Kurt Shwitters. They will then be encouraged to create a creative fantasy house design that can only occur in their wildest dreams. They will then collage this.
Miami Portfolio Museum REsource
Lesson Plan Link
Lesson Theme: Freedom of Speech (1st Amendment), The Miniature to the Monumental Co-Teachers: Liza Torrence and Tara Hayes Grade Level: Beginning High School Medium: Sculpture and Photography Time Frame: 7 classes; 45 minutes each Integrated Subject: Social Studies |
Susan R. Ewing, 2010
Oxford, Ohio The Miami Print Portfolio: past+present=future Starsphere 2010 Embossment Magnani Pescia 100% cotton paper (blue) Edition of 30 |
Finding Balance
Arts Integration Project Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 9-12
Medium: Sculpture/clay
Time Frame: 1 weeks (5 days)
Integrated Subject: Physics
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Balance, Gravity, Force, and Human Form
Adapted From: J. Paul Getty Museum. (2013). Art & science: A curriculum for K-12 teachers from the J. Paul Getty Museum. (pp. 75-81). Los Angeles, Calif: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Grade Level: 9-12
Medium: Sculpture/clay
Time Frame: 1 weeks (5 days)
Integrated Subject: Physics
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Balance, Gravity, Force, and Human Form
Adapted From: J. Paul Getty Museum. (2013). Art & science: A curriculum for K-12 teachers from the J. Paul Getty Museum. (pp. 75-81). Los Angeles, Calif: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Arts Integration Project Presentation: Finding Balance
Google Slides Link
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inside out
Lesson Plan link
Hot Topics Lesson & Demo Project
Grade Level: Middle School
Medium: Painting
Time Frame: 2 weeks (10 days)
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Identity and Image
Hot Topics Lesson & Demo Project
Grade Level: Middle School
Medium: Painting
Time Frame: 2 weeks (10 days)
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Identity and Image
Lesson Demo
new media peer teaching presentation
The natural world
Lesson Plan Link
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Lesson Title: Plants and Vegetation: Color in Seasons
Sequence Theme/ Big Idea: Discovering the plants and vegetation of the natural world
Time Frame: 1 class period (45 minutes)
Lesson Overview: The unit we will be covering is "The Natural World." This specifically includes the colors we may find in the natural world. The unit is split up into three parts. The first part covers the elements of the natural world, the second part covers plants and vegetation, and the third part covers animals. When looking at the lesson regarding plants and vegetation of the natural world, we will hone in on seasons and their changing colors. Color will be looked at in each lesson of the unit, creating a cohesive study. We will compare differing regions of the world with differing seasons, and discover why the colors change.
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Lesson Title: Plants and Vegetation: Color in Seasons
Sequence Theme/ Big Idea: Discovering the plants and vegetation of the natural world
Time Frame: 1 class period (45 minutes)
Lesson Overview: The unit we will be covering is "The Natural World." This specifically includes the colors we may find in the natural world. The unit is split up into three parts. The first part covers the elements of the natural world, the second part covers plants and vegetation, and the third part covers animals. When looking at the lesson regarding plants and vegetation of the natural world, we will hone in on seasons and their changing colors. Color will be looked at in each lesson of the unit, creating a cohesive study. We will compare differing regions of the world with differing seasons, and discover why the colors change.
Girl scout leadership conference
Lesson Plan Link
Co-Teachers: Emma Adams, Tara Hayes, Liza Torrence, Jaclyn Wood, Kenzie Due, Nebular Hou
Grade Level: 6-12
Lesson Title: Celebration of Self
Time Frame: 90 minutes (15 for our presentation, 60 for work, 15 for their presentations)
Theme/Big Idea: Vision, Time management, Inspiration regarding celebration/self-expression/identity
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, featuring inspiration, vision, and time management, students will be viewing various historical and multicultural exemplars for inspiration under the theme of celebration in order to create a mask. We will encourage them to implement their own vision of themselves that celebrates who they are as an individual.The students will share why they chose to make the mask they constructed and how it expresses their individuality.
Co-Teachers: Emma Adams, Tara Hayes, Liza Torrence, Jaclyn Wood, Kenzie Due, Nebular Hou
Grade Level: 6-12
Lesson Title: Celebration of Self
Time Frame: 90 minutes (15 for our presentation, 60 for work, 15 for their presentations)
Theme/Big Idea: Vision, Time management, Inspiration regarding celebration/self-expression/identity
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, featuring inspiration, vision, and time management, students will be viewing various historical and multicultural exemplars for inspiration under the theme of celebration in order to create a mask. We will encourage them to implement their own vision of themselves that celebrates who they are as an individual.The students will share why they chose to make the mask they constructed and how it expresses their individuality.
Innocence series
Lesson Plan Link
Unit Theme: Innocence
Integrated Subject: Printmaking; Fundamentals to Digital Overlaying
Level: High School (Intermediate)
Projected Time: 3 class periods-each 45 minutes
Lesson Overview: The primary theme of this unit is the concept of innocence. Because this can be a very abstract and broad topic, I'd like to start out with a lesson regarding solely their interpretation of innocence. There are a vast amount of ways that students can portray the concept of innocence through their pieces, which makes a more interesting end result of the class' entirety. I strongly encourage students to think about the dynamic that innocence plays in one's life, especially their own. I would like them to recall the moments in their own personal history where they sensed a shift in dynamic, therefore they can create pieces based off of their opinion of how innocence changes over time. Innocence is a universal topic that is strongly incorporated with viewing the youth of the world. It is important to analyze a concept of such depth and relevance to humanity. In my own innocence series, I executed a digital overlaying technique using photographs in photoshop, with each image chronologically relating to this big idea (Innocence Series). Similarly, the students will use printmaking overlays for their designs to allow them to visualize future digital techniques. In this project I would like the students to analyze the concept of innocence in order to apply their personal interpretations...
Essential Questions:
Unit Theme: Innocence
Integrated Subject: Printmaking; Fundamentals to Digital Overlaying
Level: High School (Intermediate)
Projected Time: 3 class periods-each 45 minutes
Lesson Overview: The primary theme of this unit is the concept of innocence. Because this can be a very abstract and broad topic, I'd like to start out with a lesson regarding solely their interpretation of innocence. There are a vast amount of ways that students can portray the concept of innocence through their pieces, which makes a more interesting end result of the class' entirety. I strongly encourage students to think about the dynamic that innocence plays in one's life, especially their own. I would like them to recall the moments in their own personal history where they sensed a shift in dynamic, therefore they can create pieces based off of their opinion of how innocence changes over time. Innocence is a universal topic that is strongly incorporated with viewing the youth of the world. It is important to analyze a concept of such depth and relevance to humanity. In my own innocence series, I executed a digital overlaying technique using photographs in photoshop, with each image chronologically relating to this big idea (Innocence Series). Similarly, the students will use printmaking overlays for their designs to allow them to visualize future digital techniques. In this project I would like the students to analyze the concept of innocence in order to apply their personal interpretations...
Essential Questions:
- What does the concept of innocence mean to you?
- How does innocence change within a life? More specifically, how has your view of the world and its people altered thus far in your own life?