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All I Want to Do Is Dance, Dance, Dance!
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Students will observe dance movements depicted in a drawing and a painting. Partners will use simple lines to draw their partner's movements and paint dance costumes on the figures using various brushstrokes. Students will write a persuasive speech to the school superintendent explaining why they believe dance should be a regular part of the curriculum. They will then model dance movements for classmates in teams of four and recite their persuasive speech to the class.

Subject:
Fine Arts
Visual Art
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Analyzing Paintings about Architecture (Advanced Level)
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Students will examine two paintings and discuss the use of architectural elements and vantage points in the paintings. Referring to the elements of art, students will also examine how three-dimensional shapes are transformed into two-dimensional forms in paintings, as well as the use of indoor space vs. outdoor space.

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Fine Arts
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Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
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05/03/2022
Architectural Elements in Art (Intermediate Level)
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Students will examine the use of the elements of art, including line, shape, form, texture, and color, in a drawing. They will also study the elements of architecture and learn to identify architectural elements in detail and their relationship to the surrounding landscape. Then students will draw an ancient Roman temple in perspective, integrating architectural elements in the drawing.

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Fine Arts
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Are You Sleeping?
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Students participate in a measurement lesson focusing on length. They use their feet as the unit of measurement for furniture in the classroom and at home. They then sketch the pieces of furniture they measured.

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Fine Arts
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
The Art and Accessibility of Music (Advanced Level)
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Students will learn about the jazz singer Billie Holiday and the sociohistorical context in which she performed. They will learn how discriminatory statutes (called Jim Crow laws) affected daily life. They will also analyze how movement is created in photographs and the effect of a photographer's point of view on composition. Finally, students will photograph a musician, paying attention to what can be communicated through point of view.

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American History
Fine Arts
History/Social Sciences
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
The Art and Ancient Tradition of Storytelling (Advanced Level)
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Students will analyze scenes from the Trojan War that are visually depicted in an ancient object and an 18th-century painting. They will research an epic poem inspired by the Trojan War and write a literary response analyzing how themes and values in the poem reflect the historical context in which they were made. Finally, they will work in teams to reframe a tale from the Trojan War in a contemporary context -- visually and in poetry -- and recite the tale in a poetry slam.

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Fine Arts
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Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
The Art and Ancient Tradition of Storytelling (Beginning Level)
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Students will discuss what is communicated in an ancient statuette by analyzing the size and poses of two figures. They will learn that stories were passed through oral tradition in ancient times. They will create sculptures of themselves, a companion, and a favorite musical instrument using spheres and cylinders, and then recite a story inspired by their sculptures.

Subject:
Fine Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
The Art and Depiction of Dance (Advanced Level)
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Students will examine three works of art to learn about the daily lives of working ballet dancers in Paris in the 19th century. Students will conduct additional research to learn about the cultural context at the time these dancers worked, including how ballet dancers were perceived. Finally, students will create a backstage view of a contemporary dancer.

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Fine Arts
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
The Art and Depiction of Dance (Beginning Level)
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Students will learn about an artist's sketchbook that includes drawings of ballet dancers. They will practice two ballet steps and discuss how an artist uses line to depict dancers in rehearsal. Students will make a sketchbook and produce a series of quick sketches of dancers.

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Fine Arts
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Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Date Added:
05/03/2022
The Art and Depiction of Dance (Intermediate Level)
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Students will learn about axial movements and locomotor movements by discussing dancers depicted in a drawing and photograph. They will then practice combining axial and locomotor movements. They will describe how artists depict a dancer's motion in drawing and photography. They will also analyze how an artist creates movement and emphasis through contrast, composition, and leading lines, and then experiment with photography to capture motion in dance.

Subject:
Fine Arts
Visual Art
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Breaking the Chains, Rising Out of Circumstances (Advanced Level)
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Advanced-level students will write narratives from the perspective of slaves depicted in rare photographs, and then create a print depicting a moment from the narratives.

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Fine Arts
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Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
A Bug's Journey
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Students will explore contemporary artist John Baldessari's mixed-media work of art inspired by a 16th-century drawing of a beetle. After writing a story about a bug's journey, each student will create a mixed-media representation of a bug that is inspired by the contemporary artist's work.

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Fine Arts
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Advanced Level)
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Students create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras. They compare and contrast a nineteenth-century image, photographs taken with a pinhole camera, and pictures created with a digital camera or camera phone.

Subject:
Fine Arts
Visual Art
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Beginning Level)
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Students create pinhole cameras to understand that light travels in a straight path. They describe the lines and shapes in a nineteenth-century photograph of a building and then use their pinhole cameras to trace the architecture of their school building.

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Fine Arts
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Intermediate Level)
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Students create pinhole cameras to learn how artists manipulate light to make photographs. They describe and analyze a nineteenth-century photograph and use their cameras to capture the architecture of their school or other buildings.

Subject:
Fine Arts
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Celebration and Satire (Advanced Level)
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Students will compare and contrast different perspectives of the French Revolution as depicted in two works of art. Students will discuss the use of satire and caricature to comment on historical and current events and will create satirical cartoons based on contemporary issues.

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Fine Arts
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 1
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This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students view ceramic vessels from different time periods and cultures and discuss their meanings, functions, and original contexts. They develop criteria for value and meaning of these objects, and create a timeline to situate the objects in history.

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Fine Arts
History/Social Sciences
World History
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Lesson Plan
Visual Media
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022
Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 2
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This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students are tested on what they learned about the history of ceramic forms in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 1." They start work on a personal clay vessel that has a specific use or meaning in their contemporary culture, which could be discerned through study by future archeologists and art historians.

Subject:
Fine Arts
History/Social Sciences
World History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Visual Media
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/03/2022