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Claude Monet Lesson Plans
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Students gather information about Normandy. They research the life of Claude Monet. They discuss Claude Monet's paintings and work. They create a travel brochure for Normandy.
Students investigate the artistic work of Claude Monet. In this art analysis lesson, students observe Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, while identifying the blue hues used throughout. Students create their own painting of a famous landmark and use different hues to best visualize their work.
In this lesson students discuss and examine paintings of Claude Monet. They examine the style he uses and then create their own painting based on the seasons. They also discuss the difference in the four seasons.
Students are shown examples of Claude Monet's paintings. In groups, they are given one season to focus on and create their own reproduction of the same season in a painting. To end the lesson, they share their paintings with the class.
Students study classic paintings by masters like Monet. In this art history lesson, students listen to the story Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and sing flower songs with the rest of their class. Students examine the painting The Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet and simulate jumping across the lily pads.
Students create a postcard and an oral presentation on the life of Claude Monet.
Students discover when art is used in our daily lives. Using cardboard pizza rounds, students make a pizza and discuss how it relates to advertising art. Students make pizza dough and analyze its texture. As a culmination to the exercise, students eat pizza. A link is provided to additional art lessons.
This lesson has 8th graders study Impressionism through the works of Claude Monet. They do a self portrait in the Impressionist style.
Students explore Impressionism through the works of Claude Monet, study Impressionism painting on a field trip to the Art Institute in Chicago, and create an Impressionistic painting.
Students observe a nearby landscape over the course of the school year noting the characteristics of each season. They explore the artwork of notable landscape artists and create original portfolios of landscape sketches, paintings and writings.
