Arts & Crafts Lesson Plans

Young scholars discover seven of the most historic aircraft and spacecraft in the collections of the National Air and Space Museum. In this milestones of flight lesson plan, students recognize features that enable craft to fly, identify major technological advances in aviation and spaceflight, and describe how advances in aircraft and spacecraft have affected the lives of people.

Fifth graders participate in a web search for information on writer's craft and discuss the information as a class. They investigate pourquoi tales which are why stories. They write their own examples of pourquoi stories to share in a scrap book.

Students use craft sticks to make a picture frame for parents.

Students dicsover how to change their hobbies into job opportunities. In this Craft Revival lesson, students research Craft Revival work conditions and write journal entries that reflect their research findings. 

Third graders create critter crafts.

Fifth graders complete research on Pourquoi tales and then create their own. They put the tales together in a scrapbook and finally a finished hard copy.

Fifth graders explore the concept of probability and conduct simple probability experiments. They participate in a probability experiment involving colored wooden craft sticks and create a tree diagram to illustrate the results. Next, 5th graders play a probability game using dice and calculate the different number combinations and probability of the numbers being rolled on the dice.

Students research different types of boats in various time periods and cultures. Then they locate photographs and information about construction details of one type of boat. Students also use their research as the basis for designing and modeling a 3-dimensional boat. Finally, they pretend they are the captain of their boat or a fisher on a small craft and write an imaginary journal about their career.

Students study three of the basic principles of design: l) designs should create a rhythmic pattern made up of related shapes, 2) colors should be repeated so as to not force the eye to remain with a single part of the composition, and 3) a composition should have a major center of interest and at least one minor one.

Learners identify and define the term material culture as refering to a vast array of objects and activities that people make and do traditionally. They identify diverse crafts and decorative arts that are made and practiced indoors and outdoors throughout the seasonal round all across the state, Students also identify traditional Louisiana crafts of the past and present through research.