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Give It All You’ve Got Heroes and Visual Art

For Teachers 5th
Sure, your young artists probably know Van Gogh and Picasso, but are they equally as familiar with Frida Kahlo and Andy Warhol? Small groups examine the work of famous artists. Then, they create their own hero portraits in Cubist style...
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A Selection of Mexican Art

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in a supplemental lesson designed for McDougal Littell's Text "The Language of Literature". They view Mexican artwork by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and complete an art viewing guide. Afterwards, they write a...
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Composition in Journals

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Carlos Fuentes’s The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait and Jaspre Bark’s Journal of Inventions: Leondardo da Vince serve as models for an assignment that asks class members to create a personal journal they will use...
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Frida and Diego

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners view the PBS video and reflect upon the social implications of a personal relationship upon the influence of artistic expression. The relationship of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is judged critically to come to conclusions. The...
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Sketchy Business

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners identify and describe characteristics of contemporary artwork. Then, they create gesture drawings, a drawing technique used to express the action of a subject in a short period of time.
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Gender Bias in Advertising

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view different paintings and discuss different advertisements that display gender bias, and redesign an advertisement found in a magazine, removing at least five aspects of the gender bias they find.
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Creating a Poster of a Famous Person

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research a famous person from a target culture and design, plan and create a poster about this person. They also make an oral presentation to explain their poster to the rest of the class.
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Photo Talk!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students communicate with Epals. They write letters with photo exchanges and create a website for presentations of 3,000 words or less and one photo. They tell their life stories and illustrate with photos in the target language. V
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Read works.org: The Artist Who Painted Herself

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this read aloud lesson to teach concepts such as main idea, using pictures to gain information, and recount key details from an informational text. This lesson plan aligns with Common Core standards...

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