EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Art and Exploration of the Poles
Resource with lesson and primary source documents examines the connections between exploration of the North and South Poles and their visual representation.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Primary and Secondary
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on the color wheel and it studies both primary and secondary colors using Grace Hartigan's "Billboard." The...
Other
Literature Circles: Lesson Plans and More
What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.
Crayola
Crayola All About Adjectives and Alliteration
This lesson plan (for students age 4 and up) from the Crayola website, incorporates phonics, adjectives, and visual arts. Students make "Rubbings," with crayons while discovering adjectives that begin with the same letter. Provides...
California State University
Texture
A fun approach to introducing visual texture to primary students. This lesson plan reinforces the different between actual and visual texture in a tangible way.