During the 1800s the United States was expanding westward; land was there for the taking.  Kids explore how some early photographers used their photography to influenced the US Congress to save areas like Mirror Lake. They...

Students create their own environmental art after the teacher shows them a variety of example and has a discussion about it. They then write an initial personal definition of environmental art.

Students compare two nineteenth century family portraits using historical data, statistics, and historical context. Students analyze their own family pictures adjusting the criteria to the current decade. Lastly students study the...

Students prepare to visit the art museum and view the rural world as seen by artists of 1848 - 1914.  In this Monet activity, students examine the haystacks series of artworks by Monet. Students observe social change in the rural...

Second graders explore setting through improvisations.  In this theatre lesson, 2nd graders perform a variety of improvisations in different settings and chart how they established the setting in the different environments. 

Pupils analyze the artistic responses to the changing landscape during the interwar period. In this art analysis lesson plan, students analyze landscape images and consider the ways artists depicted the changing landscape. Pupils...