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Grade 8 Visual Arts (Theme - Social Issues)

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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
Couture's Romans of the Decadence
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This art history video discussion looks at Thomas Couture's "Romans of the Decadence," 1847, oil on canvas. (Musج©e d‰غھOrsay, Paris).

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Diagram/Illustration
Provider:
Khan Academy
Provider Set:
Smarthistory
Author:
Beth Harris Ph.D.
Steven Zucker Ph.D.
Date Added:
10/10/2018
Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
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Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/05/2018
Dali's The Persistence of Memory
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In this art history video discussion Sal Khan and Steven Zucker consider Salvador Dalج_'s "The Persistence of Memory" 1931, oil on canvas. (The Museum of Modern Art).

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Khan Academy
Provider Set:
Smarthistory
Author:
Sal Khan
Steven Zucker
Date Added:
10/10/2018
Dramatizing Europa
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Students will observe the painting "The Abduction of Europa" by Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn. They will then form groups to create a "tableau vivant" (living picture) inspired by Rembrandt's "The Abduction of Europa." Students will choose a character in the painting and create a scenario about what they think happened and what the character said before and after the scene. Each group will then collaborate and perform their tableau vivant for 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
"A Dream of Classic Perfection"
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Students will examine primary sources in order to draw conclusions about the influence of Greek art and philosophy on the French Revolution. Students will compare the goals of the French Revolution to those of Neoclassical artists. Students will understand how visual language and style reflects underlying values in society by writing an analysis of the narrative in a work of art.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Expressing Rights Through Art
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This is a 45 minute virtual field trip.

Your class will explore human rights ideas through an artistic lens. You will use a piece of paper and your thoughts and reflections to explore various artistic ways of expressing human rights. Our program interpreters will lead you through artistic journaling and the exciting views of art and human rights at the Museum.

Students will:

Learn to identify ways that art is used to express ideas for human rights.
Experience exhibits and the inspiring Museum art as if they were at the Museum in person.
Interact with a Museum guide and art journal to better understand how they can take action with art.
Engage in discussion, critical thinking and reflection on their role in expressing human rights through art.

Subject:
21st Century Competencies
Arts Education
Education
Elementary Education
Emotional Wellness
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Mental Wellness
Social Studies
Spiritual Wellness
Wellness
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
GAP 6
Author:
Candian Museum for Human Rights
Date Added:
05/02/2023
Google Arts & Culture
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Google Arts and Culture is a massive collection of videos and images of cultural artifacts from over 2,000 museums around the world. You can explore places around the world and gather vetted resources for lessons and activities for your classroom.

There are many things you can do with web version but there is even MORE to explore when you download the Arts and Culture App available for Android and IOS.

10 Things you can do with Google Arts and Culture: (plus much more!)
1. Explore pocket galleries
2. Color famous artwork
3. Take an art selfie
4. Play in a blob opera
5. Go on a Google Expedition
6. Do the cultural 5
7. Take an (augmented) reality check
8. Zoom in on art
9. Grab a lesson plan
10. Try a crossword puzzle

Subject:
Arts Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Game
Lesson
Reading
Simulation
Author:
Google Arts & Culture
Date Added:
11/16/2022
How to Create Your Own Social Justice Poster
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Art and culture have played a central role in every successful movement for social change. Art can inspire, educate, and spur the imagination beyond the realm of what politics can do. Social justice posters, in particular, are powerful living reminders of the ongoing worldwide struggles for peace and justice.

In this activity, students will watch a short video by artist Favianna Rodriguez on the guiding principles of effective poster design, and then will create a poster of their own.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Author:
SFMOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Favianna Rodriguez
Date Added:
12/15/2022
Imagining China Through Words
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Students will create a drawing from a written description and examine and discuss how European artists from the past created images of China that combined imagination with written descriptions and limited visual imagery.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Incredible Art Department
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This site is easy to use, has tons of ideas, and breaks art ideas up by grade, art period, medium, artist, subject, and (what I love the most) integration. If you click on the Integration tab, there are numerous ideas on how to bring art into all your other subject areas. The ideas are endless!

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Math
Science
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Author:
Incredible Art Department
Date Added:
10/15/2018
Leonardo's "Mona Lisa"
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This art history video presents a conversation between Salman Khan and Beth Harris about Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" (c. 1503-1505, oil on panel) and its changing meaning. (Musج©e du Louvre).

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Diagram/Illustration
Provider:
Khan Academy
Provider Set:
Smarthistory
Author:
Beth Harris
Salman Khan
Date Added:
10/10/2018
Live Arts Saskatchewan
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LIVE (Live Interactive Video Education) Arts Education is a dynamic distance education arts program for students in Grades 1 to 9. The program supports the Saskatchewan Arts Education curriculum and is delivered via the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education LIVE Network (CommunityNet).

Teachers sign up for grade specific programs then professional Artists connect simultaneously with teachers and students in multiple schools across the province of Saskatchewan for a LIVE experience with Arts Education.

Information about the grade level, arts strand, guest artist, date and time and program guides are listed on this website.

This program started out in 2005 as an Artist in the School distance education pilot program hosted by Regina Catholic Schools. Initially the broadcast programming was delivered by Mixed Media Artist in Residence Heather Cline from a special distance education broadcast classroom at St. Peter School in Regina. The program has continued to expand and evolve responding to the needs of Saskatchewan Teachers and the new Saskatchewan Arts Curriculum.

Last year the LIVE Arts program, in partnership with several Saskatchewan School Divisions, broadcast 36 programs featuring Professional Artists in the areas of Visual Arts, Drama, Music and Dance. Each program featured a Guest Artist working with a classroom teacher and their students. Teachers and students participating via distance technology followed along with the help of a guide that outlined the broadcast portion of the program and provided teachers with a follow-up hands-on activity.

Subject:
Arts Education
Indigenous Perspectives
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Date Added:
07/14/2018
Metis Artists - Based on Tradition, Inspired by Nature
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This site is dedicated to Metis artists working in the visual arts.
The links on the site were set up for information purposes to highlight some interesting work being produced by Metis visual artists in Canada.
The images & text found on each artists' page is excerpted from various sources available on-line. The sources have been indicated and you are encouraged to click on the links to those websites.

Subject:
Arts Education
Indigenous Perspectives
Native Studies
Social Studies
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Author:
Christi Belcourt
Date Added:
11/02/2018
Metkids
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This resource is recommended for kids ages 5 and up. An extensive catalog of content, as well as a tool to partake in a virtual tour of the museum, will give kids a dose of art and culture. Kids can learn about a particular period or collection and explore art via the “Time Machine,” starting as early as 8000-2000 BC to present time with fun facts and videos.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Diagram/Illustration
Homework/Assignment
Simulation
Author:
Metkids
Date Added:
03/23/2020
Morning Star
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Although it’s hard to replace the physical feeling of being inside the Canadian Museum of History, one virtual exhibit gives you the chance see a standout ceiling mural even closer than you can in person.
The circular painting, “Morning Star,” by Alex Janvier, decorates the ceiling of the dome of the Haida Gwaii Salon within the museum, towering above a bright white staircase. Online, you can zoom in on the mural and spin it to see the four quadrants in high detail. A click of the plus sign in the corner causes a series of links to pop up over the mural itself, with photos and videos attached that explain the significance of each part of the artwork.
Other exhibits listed in the museum’s “Online Exhibitions” section include a dedicated website explaining Inuit prints from Cape Dorset in Nunavut (with videos, interviews, pictures and interactive puzzle games to recreate prints yourself), and a clickable playhouse that has different “rooms” that lead viewers to different children’s toys from Canada’s past.

Subject:
Arts Education
History
Indigenous Perspectives
Native Studies
Science
Social Studies
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Diagram/Illustration
Game
Homework/Assignment
Simulation
Author:
Canadian Museum of History
Date Added:
03/18/2020