Grade 3 to Grade 5 Arts and Humanities Lesson Plans

• A Character Lifebox - Students will: will create a character life box for a character in The Shakespeare Stealer.
• A Curling Experience - Students research traditional paper quilting designs.
• Cloud Types - Students will create a picture that shows four different cloud types (Cirrus, stratus, cumulonimbus, and cumulus).
• Challenging Self-Perceptions Art - Furthers understanding and appreciating new trends in creative expression.
• Drawing with Emotion - This lesson provides students an opportunity to explore how certain colors and styles of writing reflect emotion. Students use words to name an emotion and colors to describe it.
• Drawing Birds - Drawing an animal using basic shapes.
• Exploring Watercolors - Students will explore the medium of watercolor paints.
• Fall Trees on Foil - This is a nice introduction to etching. Students can create a fall drawing using just foil, paint, and tissue paper.
• Flowers for the Heroine - Students will be able to appreciate the duties, responsibilities, and roles of their teacher.
• Greeting Card Picture - This is a fun activity to do with students around the holidays or at the end of the year.
• Macaroni Skeleton Art - To make a skeleton out of different shapes of pasta and to know the bones, muscles and joints of the human body.
• Media - The learner will: define media as it relates to art;explore various drawing media; understand that different media have different properties.
• Molas Collage - This lesson introduces student to the bright colors and abstracted designs of traditional Molas using drawing with markers and cutting and pasting colored papers.
• Mosaics - Students can create a picture using many small parts. This lesson can be tied into many subjects and themes across the curriculum.
• Multicultural Quilt - To have students think about the traditions and cultures of their backgrounds and ancestors, then to have them incorporate their creativity and thoughts into a small piece that represents themselves.
• Overlapping Fish - To develop skills in art composition. To learn complementary colors. To acquire tracing & drawing skills.
• Pebble Painting - Motivate students to pebble paint by first reading the story, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig.
• Poster Contest - Why is it important to vote?
• Profiles & Masaccio - Explain what a profile and silhouette is to the students. Also teach who Masaccio is and what he did with profiles.
• Puzzle Pictures - This activity is a fun way for students to explore patterns and design. Students can also use it practice using contrasting or complimenting colors, warm or cool ones, or primary and secondary ones.
• Rainforest 3-D Art - Given art tools and supplies, students will create a 3-D Rainforest Scene illustrating five aspects of the rainforest.
• Scenery Box - Students will create a three-dimensional scene by making a scenery box.
• Spring Egg - Students will create a spring egg out of pastels, construction paper and glue.
• Storytelling - The objective is to have the boys and girls reflect on the job of the griot, and then turn themselves into griots by tell their story through art.
• The Fauves vs. The Realists - Compare and Contrast Real and Expressive Colors. Create tints and shades.
• Tolerance and Anger Journals - Help students learn the importance of setting goals.
• Tolerance For Every Day - Students will learn to channel their anger in positive ways.
• Understanding & Creating Kwanzaa - Become familiar with the use of colored pencil as a medium There are 7 days in Kwanzaa, there will be a lesson for each.

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