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Art Lesson Ideas Integrated with Social Studies, Science, Math, and Language Arts

1. Painting Endangered Rainforest Animals
Objective: The students will paint a picture of an endangered rainforest animal and provide a description about why this animal is endangered and what can be done to protect it.
Integrated with Social Studies

2. Native American Pottery
Objective: The students will study a Native American tribe and create a clay pot based on the story of that particular tribe.
Integrated with Social Studies

3. Cesar Chavez
Objective: The students will gain an understanding of the importance of who Cesar Chavez is and create a quilt about his life and his achievements.
Integrated with Social Studies

4. The American Flag
Objective: The students will identify the number of stars, the number of red stripes, the number of white stripes, and name what each represents. The students will also create their own representation of the American flag.
Integrated with Social Studies

5. American Symbols
objectives: The students will learn that a symbol is something that stands for, or represents, something else. They will learn about the national symbols that are unique to our country. They will complete artwork to depict the symbols and read non-fiction books to further their comprehension.
Integrated with Social Studies




1. Dinosaur Prints
Objective: The students will create a drawing of a dinosaur based on the story they are read about the different dinosaurs and their characteristics.
Integrated with Science

2. Spider Art
Objective: The students will listen to the story of The Very Busy Spider and create a drawing of a spider and list a different fact on each leg.
Integrated with Science

3. Trees
Objective: The students will identify different facts about trees and create leaf rubbings by placing a crayon and paper over a leaf.
Integrated with Science

4. Rock Exploration
Objective: The students will explore different facts about the different types of rocks and create a representation of their favorite rock by using mixed media.
Integrated with Science

5. Butterfly Symmetry
Objective: The students will identify the concept of symmetry and create their own symmetrical butterflies.
Integrated with Science

1. The Commutative Property
Objective: The students will creat array models for multiplication with grid paper, construction paper, and markers.
Integrated with Mathematics

2. Egg Wrap
Objective: The students will determine the circumference of a balloon by measuring the diameter and estimating how much yarn will be needed to cover the entire balloon. Integrated with Mathematics.

3. Shape Ship

Objective: The students will be able to recognize and identify obtuse, right and acute angles. Students will also identify and demonstrate slide, flips and turns by creating their own geometric shapes. Integrated with Mathematics

4. Shapes and Windsocks

Objective: The students will use construction paper to cut out different shapes and glue them to toilet tissue rolls along with tissue paper and string to create a colorful windsock. Integrated with Mathematics

5. Calendar Art

Objective: The students will create a calendar by using construction paper and markers. The calendar will be used to count the days of the month in different directions, frontward, backwards, up and down. Integrated with Mathematics

1. Sketch to Stretch
Objective: The students will listen as a story is being read to them, draw a picture that expresses how the story makes them feel, explain their drawing to the group, and write a few sentences about what the story means to them.
Integrated into Language Arts

2. Sequence Story Quilt
Objective: The students will be able to retell a story using the sequence comprehension skill and create a story quilt based on that retelling.
Integrated into Language Arts

3. Writing About a Photograph
Objective: The students will write a descriptive paragraph about a photograph and share their descriptions with the class.
Integrated with Language Arts

4. Crayon Creation
Objective: The students will listen to the story of Harold and the Purple Crayon and create their own crayon drawing as well as a short story about their crayon.
Integrated with Language Arts

5. Cooperative Snowmen
Objective: The students will work cooperatively to create a snowman for the bulletin board and write a short paragraph describing it.
Integrated with Language Arts

Pictures of Artwork

Diorama of Worldly Issue




Storyboard




Alphabet Book





Model and Map of City





Imaginative Art Game

Classroom Rules Concerning Art Materials

1. Return Every Item to its proper place.
2. Only use your assigned materials.
3. Clean up art space when finished.
4. Do not run with scissors.
5. Ask for assistance when it is needed.

20 Interesting Facts about the artist Jacob Lawrence

1. Jacob Lawrence was born on the 7th of September 1917.
2. He was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
3. Lawrence was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight.
4. He married Gwendolyn in 1970.
5. He trained as a painter at the Harlem Art Workshop inside the New York Public Library.
6. He first made a name for himself in Harlem in the 1930s.
7. Jacob was not interested in many of the ideas of the artists from the Harlem Renaissance.
8. He did find inspiration for his artwork in the Harlem community.
9. He called his style of painting dynamic cubism.
10. From 1940-41 he created a sixty panel narrative, The Migration of the Negro, based on his personal family experiences, people in the community, and in depth research.
11. In 1942 he was drafted into the U.S Coast Guard.
12. The Hatian military leader Toussaint L'Ouverture had a big influence on his art work.
13. His work includes several pieces about John Brown, abolitionist, and Harriet Tubman.
14. His work often portrayed important periods in African American history.
15. He made exposing the reality of black history through art his life long pursuit.
16. Many of the images in his art are restrained, he doesn't show actual graphics and details.
17. His Migration Series made him nationally famous when featured in the 1941 issue of Fortune Magazine.
18. He was awarded the U.S National medal of the Arts in 1990.
19. He was art professor at the University of Washington.
20. He received the Washington Medal of Merit in 1998.