Lesson Plans
These lesson plans have been developed by Maryland state teachers who participated in our Revive, Contemplate, and Integrate workshop.
Teachers worked in interdisciplinary pairs to select a work of art from Integrating the Arts, our arts integration website and developed lesson plans based on the object.
Elementary School Lesson Plans
Ancient:
Ancient World Storytelling
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will look at work of art to observe and describe ancient world storytelling of a family, attending to the characters, action, setting. Students will use the same art form (a stele) to tell a story about their family.
ancient-world-storytelling.pdfEgyptian Symbols: What Story do they Tell?
Grade Level: 3
Language Arts, Visual Arts, Social Studies
Students will demonstrate understanding of the importance of symbols in Egyptian art by creating a symbolic stele using model magic to express personal ideas.?? The students will also write a description of their drawing in order to present a guide to their audience
egyptian-symbols.pdfPersonal Journeys
Grade Level: 5
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will create a prayer flag and compose a personal essay in order to express their personal ideas about the life experience of transitioning to middle school.
personal journeys.pdf personal journeys handout.pdf personal journeys handout2.pdf personal journeys handout3.pdf personal journeys handout4.pdfDancing with Dionysus
Grade Level 5
Social Studies, Theater, Dance
Students will demonstrate their understanding of the ancient Festival of Dionysus and aspects of Greek culture through dance and theater combined with components of the social studies fifth grade communities unit.??
dancing-with-dionysus.pdf dancing-with-dionysus-handout.pdfMedieval World:
Interpretations of the Golden Rule
Grade Level: 1
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will illustrate their personal connection to the proverb of the Golden Rule.? They will do so through collective brainstorming, examination of the Rhyming Proverbs book from the Walters Art Museum, and personal reflection in creating works of art.
interpretations-of-the-golden-rule.pdfWho's Your Mama?
Grade Level: 2
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will compare works of art and then create a diptych of their family. They will explain, in both writing and verbally, the diptych he/she created.
who's-your-mama.pdfPersonal Coat of Arms
Grade Level: Grade 2
Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will demonstrate their understanding of how individuals/families share and borrow traditions from other cultures by creating a personal Coat of Arms.
personal-coat-of-arms.pdfSuit it Up
Grade Level: 3
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will create art with texture and describe texture using effective word choice and vivid adjectives.
suit_it_up.pdf suit_it_up_art_rubric.pdf suit_it_up_scoring_guide.pdf suit_it_up_word_choice_rubric.pdfWarhol Stained Glass
Grade Level: 5
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will use the elements of art such as color, line and two principles of design, focus, and unity, in order to create stained glass windows that attempt to persuade the viewer to want their product.
warhol stained glass.pdf warhol-stained-glass-handout.pdfOur Artistic Heritage
Grade Level: 5
Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will understand Islamic design by analyzing the "Mecca Tile" from the Walters Art Museum then creating a drawing? of their own meaningful journey and transferring it to a clay tile.
our-artistic-heritage.pdfRenaissance
Predicting, Creating, and Determining Emotions
Grade Level: 2
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will predict and interpret emotions by presenting their own clay figures and poems depicting and describing an emotion.
predicting creating.pdfIo Helps the Nutcracker tell her Story
Grade Level: 3
Dance, Visual Arts
Students will examine the painting The Myth of Io to understand and identify spatial concepts, which they will apply in a unique interpretation of The Nutcracker story by using visuals and dance.
io-helps-the-nutcracker-tell-his-story.pdfMiddle School Lesson Plans
Ancient World:
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Grade Level: 6
Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will demonstrate their understanding of early Egyptian life by creating visual replicas of Egyptian art.
daily-life-in-ancient-egypt.pdf
Clay Stories
Grade Level: 6
Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will describe ways that people have communicated in the past and the present and recognize how the elements and principles of design are used in works of art in order to make a clay slab with a picture in the style of early Egyptian artists.
The Death of a Pharaoh
Grade: 6
Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will learn how art was incorporated and used in the daily life experiences and events of the ancient Egyptian culture (social studies).
Renaissance
Language Beyond Words
Grade Level: Middle School
Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts
After reviewing the historical, social, and cultural themes conveyed in Renaissance and Baroque works of art, students will make a three dimensional clay figure that reflects society today.
Perspective on Pavimenti
Grade Level: 6
Math, Visual Arts
Students will learn how math can be used to understand logical relationships between objects in perspective drawing, by creating drawings based on the provided ratios.
Philosophy of Life Collage
Grade Level: Middle School
Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will generalize his/her ability to identify a theme in an artwork and a text and use that to identify a theme in a piece of music or poetry that is personally meaningful to that student.
philosophy-of-life-collage.pdf philosophy_of_life_rubric.pdf
High School Lesson Plans
Monsters
Grade Level: 11
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will learn how to identify and use character description, and create a paper monster.
monsters.pdf monsters-rubric.pdf
See it From My Point of View
Grade Level: 10,11
Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will analyze and discuss unique ways artists use specific elements and principles of composition to express ideas, feelings, and experiences in order to compare and evaluate different perspectives on the same subject.