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Instructional Plan: Shadow Puppet Storytelling

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Students will understand that information passes from generation to generation through the ancient tradition of storytelling. Students will recognize that puppetry is a visual expression of storytelling used by many cultures for entertainment, community gatherings, to convey information and to encourage understanding and/or empathy. Students will create a shadow puppet and perform a short puppet show based on a folk tale, tall tale, or poem.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: What Don’t You See When You Look at Me?

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Students will examine portraits of diverse artists to inspire unique self-portraits. Using  proportions and mirrors to draw self-portraits, students will enhance photocopies of their pencil drawings by adding visual representations of their likes, backgrounds, hopes, and dreams, as well as color. The first pencil portrait will be glued on the outside of an envelope, while the second colorful portrait can be slipped out from inside to reveal a deeper look at the student’s identities.  

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Pixel Art Animation

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Students will explore the contemporary technique of Pixel Art- using exaggerated pixel size to emulate the low-resolution aesthetic of Late 80’s/early 90’s video games. Using a free image-editing and animation application, student can create their own pixelized version of an everyday inanimate object and then animate their image.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Architecture Then and Now

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Students will compare Ancient Greek architecture with the innovative and abstract contemporary architecture of renowned famous female Iraqi architect, Zaha Hadid. Students will respond to a design challenge and create a small-scale 3-D building model employing vision and originality to showcase their most creative idea of form and function.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Iconic Identities and Collaborative Prints

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In this printmaking project inspired by the work of Virginia Beach native and artist, Ryan McGinness, students will learn about simplifying complex imagery into basic symbols and design a personalized symbol stamp. They will also get a glimpse of artists working together in a studio environment. Students will print their symbols on a collaborative work of art in addition to creating individual prints.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Slow Looking and Deep Understanding

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This lesson guides students to carefully observe of works of art, leading to deeper understanding of cultural and historical background. This lesson introduces thinking and analysis strategies that students will use frequently in art class and beyond. This lesson is also great to way to formatively assess student skills related to language acquisition, critical thinking, analysis, and communication.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Paper Mâché Miniature Golf

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During this lesson, students will work in teams to plan, construct, and test a functional miniature golf sculpture while they explore topics related to collaboration, design thinking, and peer critique. A focus on specific art production skills such as armature building and rendering objects using paper mâché will be explored. The finished artwork will be peer reviewed for creativity, craftsmanship, and challenge. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Make Meaning POP!

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After studying the Pop Art movement and learning about artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Sister Corita Kent, students will create meaningful text art influenced by Pop Art. Students will choose a word that is meaningful to them to emphasize. This project can be completed using a word in the language of the students’ choice.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Self Portraits Inspired by Ancient Egyptian Art

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Over multiple class periods, students will analyze Egyptian art to identify how it reflects aspects of the culture in which it was created. Students will also compare and contrast contemporary art with ancient Egyptian art.  Students will create self-portraits that are inspired by ancient Egyptian art and then explain how the art of ancient Egypt inspired their self-portraits.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

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