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Festivals
<p>Everyone enjoys a festival or celebration! Let's look at some. . . </p><ul><li>Observe images and guess which culture each represents.</li><li>Play "I Spy Juxtaposition." Work with a small group to examine an image and find where the artist has juxtaposed symbols or text with the image to create meaning. </li><li>What might you include in an artwork about a festival or celebration? Would there be dances, special music, food, clothing, or activities?</li></ul><p>Art making challenge: Collaborate in a small group to create a design for a booth, stage, or other area for a cultural tradition at a festival. Designs will be combined into a festival mural.</p>
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Family Fun
<p> There are many ways that families have fun together. Have you done some of these activities with your family? Draw or paint a picture of you and your family enjoying an activity together.</p>
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Human Figure
<p>This collection supports learning in the Grade 4 gesture drawing and wire sculpture lessons. Activities:</p>
<ul><li>Realism vs. Abstraction: students sort sculptures of the human figure into two categories (realistic or abstract). Describe the ways that some artists abstract the human figure.</li><li>Compare contrast 2D/3D: identify the shapes an artist used to portray the human figure in a gesture drawing, then identify the equivalent forms used in a sculpture. Record findings in a T-chart.</li></ul><p><br /></p>
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Houses
<p>Images support learning in first grade "Dream House for My Family" lesson. For architecture puzzle activity, print selected images and cut them into pieces that focus on parts of the building. Allow table groups to work together to reassemble the house image and name the parts of the house. </p><p>Discuss images of model houses to introduce the lesson challenge: <em>Create a 3-dimensional model of a dream house for your family.</em></p>
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Art or Not Art?
<p>Introduction to the concept of "what is art?" Students sort images by whether they think the objects are artworks or not. For the purpose of this discussion, a photograph per se is not categorized as art; it is an image of a plant, animal, toy, sculpture, etc. </p>
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Museum Architecture
<p><em>How does the design of a museum . . . </em></p>
<ul><li>reflect the time in which it was built?</li><li>reflect its purpose?</li><li>reflect the values of society?</li><li> fit in (or not) with the surrounding community? </li></ul><p><em>How does the interior design affect the way people experience the space?</em></p>
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Art & Culture Guessing Game
<p>1. Can you guess who made these? Look at each picture and decide which type of maker created it: Painter, Sculptor, Potter, Printmaker, Weaver, Architect</p>
<p>2. Can you guess what culture or time these things are from? Write your guess, then click on the picture. Click the <strong>i </strong>symbol to learn the answer.</p>
<p>3. Choose a picture and tell why you think this object is special or useful.</p>
<p>4. How do you think it expresses something important to the people of that culture?</p>
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Fabulous Fabrics
<p>Use images to introduce a stamp-printing lesson with primary students. Observe selected images and discuss. . . </p>
<ul><li>What shapes or lines do you see?</li><li>Which fabrics have repeat patterns?</li><li>Which fabrics have alternating patterns?</li><li>What could the fabric be used for?</li></ul><p>Play a sorting game with images printed on cards. Categories for sorting could include stripes, plaid, checkerboard, floral, polka dot, etc.</p>
<p>ART MAKING CHALLENGE: </p>
<ul><li>Students will stamp print on paper with cardboard edges, stampers, or found objects to create patterns. </li><li>Printed paper will then be cut into clothing for collage self portraits.</li></ul><p></p>
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Birds
<p>Compare similarities and differences among types of birds. </p><p>Analyze bird sculptures: what shapes/forms help represent the body, head, neck, beak, or wings? Which type of bird would you like to sculpt in clay?</p>
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Coil Baskets
<p>Baskets can be both functional and decorative. Choose an image and make guesses based on what you see:</p>
<ul><li>What materials were used to make the basket?</li><li>What do you think it was used for?</li><li>What process did the artist use to make the basket?</li><li>Where do you think the basket is from?</li></ul><p>Check the info tab to learn more.<br /></p>
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Louise Nevelson
<p>Did you know that Louise's dad owned a lumber yard? No wonder she enjoyed creating wood assemblages.</p>
<p>Look at a selected sculpture with a partner and discuss:</p>
<ul><li>What do you see?</li><li>How is it arranged?</li><li>What does it make you think of?</li><li>What kind of meaning or story can you find in the sculpture?</li><li>How did Louise <em>unify</em> her sculptures? (UNITY is when all the parts work together to create a cohesive artwork.)</li></ul><p></p>
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Culture Lotto
<p>Images to show when playing third grade Culture Lotto game.</p>
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Human Figure: Abstract vs. Realistic
<p>Look at the artworks and decide which are realistic and which are abstract. Play the sorting game and put the images in the right folder.</p>
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Textiles embroidered with plants
<p>Examples of embroidery depicting plants. Supports primary grade stichery lesson.</p>
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Body Language
<ul><li>How does a person's gaze, stance or the way they use their hands communicate a mood or feeling?</li><li>In artworks depicting two or more people, how are they interacting? What does that say about their relationship to each other?</li></ul><br /><p><br /></p>
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