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Lesson Plans - Visual Arts

Norman Rockwell Paints America

Students take a “gallery walk” of Norman Rockwell paintings, discuss the stories the painter was trying to tell through his paintings.

From Concrete to Memory: Scrapbooking the Berlin Wall

In this lesson, students consider how ordinary citizens contributed to and experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall. They then develop scrapbooks depicting how people experienced the wall and use the books as symbolic bricks in building a classroom Berlin Wall.

Ho Ho Poetry

In this lesson, students read about the sights and sounds of a Las Vegas Christmas. They then use words and phrases taken from articles in today?s New York Times to create holiday-themed ?found poems

Geo Jammin’

Turn a classroom nuisance into a delightful geometry unit assessment tool! With puppetry, poems, and geoboards, students move from understanding basic shapes to sorting, describing, identifying, and demonstrating attributes of two- and three-dimensional figures.

Geo Jammin By DeSign

Slide, flip, and turn students’ thinking into the world of spatial relationships and geometric design with directed inquiries in song, dance, literature, games, poetry, and history. Develop students’ understanding of symmetry by investigating lines of symmetry to uncover congruent shapes, shapes within shapes, and reflections.