Grade 3 Visual Arts (Theme - Environment)

 

In Grade 3 Visual Arts, students are asked to create artworks that express ideas about natural, constructed, and imagined environments. 

Students are encouraged to create artworks using a variety of concepts (like contour lines), forms (like drawing and sculpture), and media (like pencils, pastels, and found objects). 

Explore this collection to find resources and activities suitable for Grade 3 Visual Arts.

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All I Want to Do Is Dance, Dance, Dance!
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Students will observe dance movements depicted in a drawing and a painting. Partners will use simple lines to draw their partner's movements and paint dance costumes on the figures using various brushstrokes. Students will write a persuasive speech to the school superintendent explaining why they believe dance should be a regular part of the curriculum. They will then model dance movements for classmates in teams of four and recite their persuasive speech to the class.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Art Lessons by Grade
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Here you can browse through art lesson plans by age or grade, from Preschool through High School.
The site includes a "What you can expect" of students artists at each age level.
At KinderArt "Our mission is to create and provide art lesson plans that parents and teachers can use in their home and school classrooms. We aim to offer ideas that make use of readily available materials that won't break the bank."

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Author:
KinderArt
Date Added:
12/19/2022
Art Lessons (elementary & middle years)
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Art Lessons for Teachers
by Monique Martin
Art Educator Georges Vanier Fine Arts School, Saskatoon, Canada
Includes: printmaking, sculpture, perspective drawing, colours, mixed media, chair design, clay, architecture, cultural art, drawing, painting, quilting, and much more!

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Author:
Monique Martin
Date Added:
05/19/2022
Art Videos for Kids on YouTube by Kristen Brunner
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This collection of art videos will support teachers and students in their quest to learn more about art.

Videos include: Matisse, Chagall, Michelangelo, pointillism, Britto, Chinese Dragon, Dali, Pollock, Tin Art, Kindness Rocks, Landscapes, Fashion Design, Collaborative Portraits, Zentangle, Howard, Dhurrie Rug, Magritte.

There are great ideas for lessons here, information about famous artists and great individual or collaborative projects.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Kristen Brunner
Laurel Burch
Date Added:
09/28/2018
Artistic Elements: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing
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Paint a vivid picture in your reader's mind with good descriptive writing! Artwork provides the perfect starting point for practicing descriptive writing that conveys color, shape, line, and mood.

Subject:
Visual Arts
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/05/2018
Arts Lesson Plans
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This site offers visual and performing art lessons from kindergarten through high school. Many of the lessons can be integrated into core subjects such as Math, Language Arts, Science, or Social Studies. Opportunities for creativity are some of the building blocks of child development and concept acquisition. Lessons are categorized by grade for easy retrieval.

Subject:
Arts Education
Drama
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Author:
teacher.org
Date Added:
12/15/2022
Canadian Art Education Teacher Resource Guides
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Canadian art is a door to learning about a wide range of subjects.

The Art Canada Institute teacher resource guides presented here offer students the opportunity to study a multitude of subjects—from environmental awareness to activism, social justice to gender studies, politics to computer science (to name a few)—through the art and artists who have defined this country’s visual culture.

Following our provinces’ education curricula, the teacher resource guides provide multidisciplinary learning activities that reveal how Canadian art powerfully reflects our world so we can better understand it.

Activities for K-12!

Subject:
Arts Education
Drama
Visual Arts
Business
Computer & Digital Technologies
Education
English Language Arts
Indigenous Perspectives
French
Practical & Applied Arts
Science
Computer Science
Social Studies
Geography
History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Author:
Art Canada Institute
Date Added:
12/15/2022
Color My World: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
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Using different writing/drawing materials (e.g., markers, color pencils, pastels, etc.), students learn how to communicate different moods and/or feelings to support their written ideas and how authors do the same through their work.

Subject:
Visual Arts
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/05/2018
Colouring Pages — Kevin Peeace
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CC BY-NC-ND
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The importance of family is prominent throughout the works, The vibrant colours represents the joy of life, it is meant to inspire hope, success, and happiness. These paintings are a tribute to my late mother who was my guide throughout my life, my late Grandmother for her strength in cultural beliefs and traditions, and my children for the inspiration they give me, Meegwetch.

- Kevin Peeace

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Indigenous Perspectives
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Kevin Peeace
Date Added:
11/30/2022
Contemporary Chinese Peasant Painting
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This form of painting became popular during the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976). Images depicting people's every day lives became a natural focus under the regime of Chairman Mao. Artists in places like Hu County in Shaanxi Province (near Xi'an), where these painting were made, were discovered and became popular. This particular series of Peasant Paintings, by a mature, female artist named Dong, were done in a studio production method.The peasant paintings depict festivals and daily routines: preparing food, doing laundry, traditional parades (lanterns, dragons), animals and fish. Some tell stories with symbolism. This curriculum resource will provide potential lesson topics and areas of discovery and a set of images for teachers of art, Chinese culture & history at elementary, middle and high school levels. The paintings may serve as supplementary visuals for K-8 teachers of science, and geography.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
PrimarySource.org
Author:
Renee Covalucci
Date Added:
01/11/2012
A Continuous Story in Art
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Students will focus on how one artist tells the story of Joseph using continuous narrative. By observing and discussing visual details such as color and movement found in the painting, students write about what they think is happening. Students are encouraged to use the actions they observed in the painting to create and write a new story with a new character, and then illustrate them in their own continuous narrative.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Creating a Garden (Beginning Level)
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Students will observe images of gardens, visualizing and imagining the shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and smells of the plants, flowers, and other objects in a garden. They will also write about and sketch their observations. Students will then design and create a model of their own imagined garden.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018