Lesson: Before You Go...Travel Recommendations from the Experts!

Here is a lesson plan that sounds like a lot of fun. Kids discuss the artistic elements and motives for the painting, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. To get the scope and scale of this oversized masterpiece, they use butcher paper and the grid method to sketch out and paint a copy of the original. They then use the supersized painting to inspire them, as they write travel guides to Yellowstone for a non-human audience.