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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the subject and meaning in visual art. They analyze various paintings on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, answer discussion questions, complete online interactive activities, and write an essay. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the idea of artistic movements in the visual arts. They explore various websites, compare/contrast paintings, complete a chart, and write an essay. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify different kinds of narratives used in a number of artworks. They discuss the artist's us of compositional elements to further the story and/or convey a message within a work of art. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students define genre in the visual arts, particularly in Western painting and explain the differences between subject and genre. The genre of a variety of works of art is identified. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the idea of movements in the visual arts and differentiate between some of the most well known movements in Western art. The lesson focuses on what makes a painting an example of a particular movement. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students complete a variety of activities as they study the basics of artistic composition in the visual arts. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore one of the techniques artists often use to highlight important elements within a painting's composition and to move a viewer's eye around the canvass from highpoint to highpoint. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students 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. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students research the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts, create model spacecrafts and place important objects into those spacecrafts in this Visual Art lesson about societies and cultures. The lesson is intended for use in a fifth grade elementary classroom. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students differentiate the various genres in the visual arts, particularly in Western painting. They view and discuss, in small groups, paintings published on the National Galleries website. Then each student individually identifies genres of paintings in an online exercise. Full Review »

