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Lesson Plans

Elementary School

  • Art Alive: A series of paintings and interactive activities looking, imagining, questioning and relecting on works of art
    • Art Alive: Back from the Orchard
    • Art Alive: Beach at Blue Point
    • Art Alive: Boomtown
    • Art Alive: Genesee Oaks
    • Art Alive: Ice Cream Cones
    • Art Alive: Pittsford on the Erie Canal
    • Art Alive: Summer Street Scene in Harlem
    • Art Alive: Sunday Morning
    • Art Alive: The Fable of the Fox and the Heron
    • Art Alive: Towing a Boat, Honfleur
  • Art and the Ancient World
    • Egypt in the Art Room
    • Introducing Ancient Egypt to Young Children
    • Passport to the Past
    • Protected for Eternity: the Coffins of Pa-debehu-Aset
    • Odyssey Online : an interactive journey for students through the art and culture of the ancient world, the ancient Americas and sub-Saharan Africa
  • Art and Writing
    • Art Inspires Writing: Voices in the Gallery using
      • Chinese Restaurant
      • Peeling Onions
    • The Making of Small World Poems inspired by the art of Georgia O'Keeffe
    • Story Starter series
    • Writing About Art
  • One Artist—Many Classroom Connections!
    • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • One Painting--Four Art Standards!
    • The Indian Hunter
  • Recycling the Past: Contemporary artist Willie Cole reinterprets his African roots: from Chi wara Crest to Sears Ross tji-wara (includes a worksheet on making art from recycled materials)
  • Studio Art Experience inservice
  • Teaching American History through American Art
    • About Face: Copley's Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith
    • Boomtown
    • Democracy in America
      • County Election
      • The Opposition
      • The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive and Cast Their Ballots
    • Genesee Oaks
    • Pittsford on the Erie Canal
    • The Rochester Homelands Exhibition of 1920
    • Sunday Morning
  • Visual Literacy: "Learning to Look, Looking to Learn"
    • Articulate Object worksheet
    • Guidelines for Leading a Guided Looking Process in the Classroom
    • Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: Integrating Art into the Art, ELA, and Social Studies Curriculum
      • Peeling Onions Sample Lesson Plan
      • Sunday Morning Sample Lesson Plan
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