Lesson Plans by Grade Level

Grade	Lesson	Description	Featured Artists
Kindergarten	Eric Carle/Collage	An artist study	Eric Carle
	Jackson Pollock	An artist study	Jackson Pollock
	Street Art (Activity)	Visual art created in public locations
	Lines	The arrangement of basic lines and shapes. What you can create simply by using a line.	Mondrian, Miro, and Klee
First	Portraits	A piece of art that shows what people look like, and also provides clues about their lives.	Renoir, Sargent, Picasso
	Norman Rockwell	Art as an occupation: Artists who are commissioned and paid to make art for commercial use (magazines, books, etc.).	Rockwell
	Lines/Shapes	The arrangement of basic lines and shapes. The idea of “taking your line for a walk” to see what you can create simply using a line.	Kandinsky, Mondrian
	CCC: Mexico	A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.
Second	Near/Far	How various artists use visual relationships in a painting to show distance and space between various elements.	Wyeth, Hockney
	Keith Haring	A look at the life and contemporary work of Keith Haring	Haring
	Seurat/Monet	A look at the life and artwork of George Seurat (pointillism). A look at the life and artwork of Claude Monet. Compare and contrast styles.	Seurat, Monet
	CCC: Ellis Island	A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.	Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty)
Third	Still Life and Light: How Green is Your Apple?	Dramatic examples of how light is used to create effect, mood and time of day and an artist’s arrangement of inanimate objects.	Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso
	Cassatt	A look at the life and artwork of Mary Cassatt.	Cassatt
	Chagall	A look at the life and artwork of Marc Chagall.	Chagall
	CCC: Cultural Fair Paper Lanterns Lesson	A look at art, logos, pictograms that are used in these different countries/cultures presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration.	Bingham, Currier and Ives, Wood
Fourth	O’Keefe	A look at the life and artwork of Georgia O’Keefe.	O’Keefe
	Landscape/Seascapes	Art that depicts natural scenery as an artist’s primary focus and where people and objects are secondary. Images of the ever-changing sea, and the people who work on or near water.	Cezanne, Constable, Homer, Vickery
	Stained Glass	How artists use glass to create art.	Chagall, Tiffany, Wright
	CCC: Extreme Weather	A look at art that expresses extreme weather situations presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.
Fifth	Da Vinci and the Human Figure	A look at the life and artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci.	Da Vinci
	MC Escher	A look at M.C. Escher’s artwork. A master illusionist who incorporated math, science, and imagination into his art.	Escher
	Van Gogh/Gauguin	An overview of two artists’ work and friendship while in Arles, France.	Van Gogh, Gauguin
	CCC: Williamsburg	A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.	Creating shadow portraits.
Sixth	Surrealism	A look into how artists interpret their visions and dreams into their paintings, often arranging unrelated or unexpected objects together.	Blume, Dali, Magritte
	Pop Art	A style derived from commercial art forms (e.g. advertising) and characterized by larger than life replicas of items from popular culture.	Rauschenberg, Warhol
	Cubism (PowerPoint)	The use of abstract, fragmented shapes to depict several views of the same subject simultaneously, emphasizing the basic geometry or structure of a subject.	Braque, Picasso
	CCC: Silk Road (YouTube Video)	A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.	Rug designs on burlap

Lesson Plans by Grade Level

Kindergarten

An artist study

Eric Carle

An artist study

Jackson Pollock

Street Art (Activity)

Visual art created in public locations

The arrangement of basic lines and shapes. What you can create simply by using a line.

Mondrian, Miro, and Klee

First

A piece of art that shows what people look like, and also provides clues about their lives.

Renoir, Sargent, Picasso

Art as an occupation: Artists who are commissioned and paid to make art for commercial use (magazines, books, etc.).

Rockwell

Second

How various artists use visual relationships in a painting to show distance and space between various elements.

Wyeth, Hockney

A look at the life and contemporary work of Keith Haring

Haring

A look at the life and artwork of George Seurat (pointillism). A look at the life and artwork of Claude Monet. Compare and contrast styles.

Seurat, Monet

A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.

Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty)

Third

Dramatic examples of how light is used to create effect, mood and time of day and an artist’s arrangement of inanimate objects.

Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso

A look at the life and artwork of Mary Cassatt.

Cassatt

A look at the life and artwork of Marc Chagall.

Chagall

A look at art, logos, pictograms that are used in these different countries/cultures presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration.

Bingham, Currier and Ives, Wood

Fourth

A look at the life and artwork of Georgia O’Keefe.

O’Keefe

Art that depicts natural scenery as an artist’s primary focus and where people and objects are secondary. Images of the ever-changing sea, and the people who work on or near water.

Cezanne, Constable, Homer, Vickery

How artists use glass to create art.

Chagall, Tiffany, Wright

A look at art that expresses extreme weather situations presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.

Fifth

A look at the life and artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Da Vinci

A look at M.C. Escher’s artwork. A master illusionist who incorporated math, science, and imagination into his art.

Escher

An overview of two artists’ work and friendship while in Arles, France.

Van Gogh, Gauguin

A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.

Creating shadow portraits.

Sixth

A look into how artists interpret their visions and dreams into their paintings, often arranging unrelated or unexpected objects together.

Blume, Dali, Magritte

A style derived from commercial art forms (e.g. advertising) and characterized by larger than life replicas of items from popular culture.

Rauschenberg, Warhol

Cubism (PowerPoint)

The use of abstract, fragmented shapes to depict several views of the same subject simultaneously, emphasizing the basic geometry or structure of a subject.

Braque, Picasso

CCC: Silk Road (YouTube Video)

A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture.

Rug designs on burlap

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