Aesthetics Lesson Plans

Students examine the art of marquetry. In this Renaissance art lesson, students view the marquetry on the "Renaissance Revival/Aesthetic Cabinet." Students then create a piece of art, demonstrating marquetry skills. Students place triangular pieces of paper next to eachother to design a picture.

Students investigate the history of cabinetry and furniture, specifically the Renaissance period.  In this art history lesson, students investigate photographs of the Renaissance Revival/Aesthetic Cabinet, and examine the small characteristics and details.  Students create their own miniature door panel from poster board, popsicle sticks, and markers.

Students describe how graffiti is a part of everyday culture. They develop basic vocabulary terms for thinking and writing about graffiti and make and justify judgments about aesthetics qualities in graffiti art. They compare and contrast specific works of Basquiat in graffiti, and how graffiti played a major role in his art style.

Eleventh graders examine aesthetics using existing and student-created program music. They describe music, propose meanings in music and defend their descriptions and propositions.They also describe and defend music and visual arts representations of subject matter that are not from the arts.

Tenth graders examine the role that aesthetics play in the publication of books. In groups, they apply the concept of physical affectation on each reader's experience to literature. They also compare and contrast the varied types of information one page can communicate to the reader.

Young scholars identify and interpret the function, usefulness or utitlity, form, beauty or aesthetics, and meaning, context or story, of objects and how they learn new skills and make things that they learn traditionally, by observation and imitation, in everyday life from people around them. They also identify who indigenous teachers are and how they affect them.

Students examine patterns in the Yoruba "Door Panel." In this art and patterning instructional activity, students discover how the concepts of symmetry, repetition, clarity of form and line, conceptual proportion, and high relief are exhibited in the "Door Panel." They design two dimensional representations of door panels showing their own aesthetic style and patterns.

Students examine images created by painters, and create an artistic rendition of the landscape in the photograph following the chosen aesthetic.

Students participate in a "hands-on" activity, to explain that African masks were and are more than aesthetic artifacts, they are functional implements of the many cultures of the African continent.

Young scholars prepare soup and salad meals and assess their nutritional and aesthetic values. After solving soup riddles and discussing types of salads, they use meal planning forms to list ingredients and recipe information. The lesson also includes study sheets and student evaluations of their meals.