- Art Across the Planet ((K-8)
In this unit, students will create drawings of their own homes and those that they imagine might be found in a foreign country. Students will also conduct research on that particular foreign country using a variety of sources and exchange artwork and questions with another group of students in that foreign country.
- Lesson One: Imagining Homes and Environments. Students choose a foreign country and create paintings of what they think homes might look like based on basic data about environments present in the country.
- Lesson Two: Exploring Homes and Resources. Students use a variety of resources to search for images of and information about the exchange country's environments and housing.
- Lesson Three: Exchanging Art. Students create drawings of their own homes and exchange them with another classroom of students in the foreign exchange country.
- Comparing Landscapes (7-12)
Students will visit two on-line art museums to view and analyze several landscapes from both Asian and European-Impressionist painters. Students will also create landscape paintings of their own in the style of the two genres.
- Lesson One: Exploring Asian Landscapes. Students visit an on-line Asian art museum, analyze several landscapes, and explore the painting techniques.
- Lesson Two: Exploring Impressionist Landscapes. Students visit an on-line art museum in Paris, analyze several landscapes, and explore Impressionist painting techniques.
- Lesson Three: Comparing Asian and Impressionist Landscapes. Students draw on the knowledge of Asian and Impressionist landscapes they have gained during the previous two lessons.
- Architectural Visualization (10-12)
Students will undertake a preliminary study of architecture: reading about philosophies underlying the pursuit of architecture and comparing different architectural styles.
- Lesson One: Introduction to Architectural Concepts. Students begin to familiarize themselves with some of the general concepts of architecture.
- Lesson Two: Introduction to Architectural Philosophies. Students visit an on-line art museum in Paris, analyze several landscapes, and explore Impressionist painting techniques.
- Lesson Three: Introduction to Architectural Visualization. Students begin to familiarize themselves with the capabilities of architectural visualization.
- Lesson Four: Speculations on Future Architectural Developments. Students speculate about the kinds of structures that might be necessary for future generations to build. Students draw the structures they imagine.
- Exploring Asian Landscapes (7-9)
Students visit an on-line Asian art museum, analyze several landscapes, and explore the painting techniques.
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