Art Integration Lesson Plan Template 1

Art Integration Lesson Plan Template

LTC 4240: Art for Children
Lesson Title & Big Idea*: Traditions and Celebrations Around the World
Lesson Overview/Summary*:
Students will be learning about different traditions and celebrations people have and how many of the same traditions
typically have similar artwork and themes.

Grade Level*: 2nd

Class Periods Required:
(please circle)
1

Key Concepts (3-4): What you want the students to know.*

1. Visual Art: Art is often influenced by values and traditions held by the artist.
2. Literacy: Traditions can be told through stories. Stories are by authors with
various backgrounds and perspectives.
3. Social Studies: Traditions represent diverse cultures and families. People in
neighborhoods and communities are alike and different. Family traditions
have different meanings and art can be used as a tool to represent those
meanings.

Essential Questions (3-4)*:

What are some traditions you celebrate with your family?
What are customs and traditions?
How do different families celebrate special times?
How are families alike and different in their customs and traditions?

Lesson Objectives: (Excellent resource at http://www.teachervision.fen.com/curriculum-planning/new-teacher/48345.html?for_printing=1&detoured=1): What you want the students to do. *
1. Visual Art: The students will be able to recognize common themes or artwork seen in similar traditions and celebrations (ie. Dia de los Muertos, Christmas,
Hanukkah, Kwanza, birthdays, Thanksgiving, etc...
2. Literacy: The students will be able to create a traditions book of a tradition or celebration that they and their family do every year around a certain time
and be able to illustrate it.
3. Social Studies: The students will be able to learn to understand and appreciate the cultural diversity that exists among each other through traditions and
celebrations and the artwork that represents it.
Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) (3-4) (http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/)
1. Visual Art:
Explain different responses you have to different artworks
Theme: Purpose of art in culture
2. Literacy:
Recount stories, including fables and folktales
from diverse cultures, and determine their central
message, lesson, or moral.
Use information gained from the illustrations and
words in a print or digital text to demonstrate

Identify & define common vocabulary that connect the art form with the
other identified content areas:

Customs, traditions, alike, different

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understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g.,
Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
3. Social Studies
Describe how needs are met by families and friends
Identify and select artifacts (building structures and materials, works
of art representative of cultures, fossils, pottery, tools, clothing,
musical instruments)
Content Areas Integrated*:
1. Visual Art
2. Literacy
3. Social Studies

Lesson Activities & Procedure(s) (please be very specific):

Day 1
1. Begin by discussing what a tradition is. Explain that not every family has
the same traditions. Traditions can be a big event or simple ritual and can be
passed down for generations.
2. Read the book "Thanksgiving at the Tappletons'".
3. Discuss what traditions the characters in the book seem to have.
4. Bring the class full circle and have each student share a
tradition/celebrations they have at their house.
5. Have them create a "Traditions Book", elaborating on the tradition they
chose to share with the class. Have students illustrate their traditions as
well.
6. Have children share their Traditions Book with the class. Explain how
some of the same traditions could look similar or different.
Day 2
7. Invite parents to come in and talk about their traditions and what they
mean to them as well as showing an artifact/decorations that represents
that particular tradition.
8. Have students discuss common artwork or decorations they see in the
same traditions.

Anticipatory Set (Gaining Attention)*:

Visual Art: Begin showing artwork/decorations that represent various
traditions.
Literacy: Read "Thanksgiving at the Tappletons'".
Social Studies: Parents arrive and share their traditions with the class and how
they are celebrated and artwork/decorations that represent it that they might

Closure (Reflecting Anticipatory Set):

Have students reflect on a tradition they learned about to the class and ask
any questions they might have.

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display during that time.
Formative Assessment Have students name one family tradition you learned Summative Assessment *:
about and its importance to the family and reflect on your own.
Write a journal entry answering the question: Did you see any similarities
within some of the same or different traditions?

What student prior knowledge will this lesson require/draw upon?

Prior knowledge of traditions, holidays, and celebrations.
How will you engage students in imagining, exploring, and/or experimenting in this lesson?
Students will be able to explore a variety of cultures through the traditions and celebrations they learn through the other students, specifically the art
commonly associated with them. In having parents or members of the community come into the classroom, the learning is even more elaborated.
How will this lesson allow for/encourage students to solve problems in divergent ways?
This lesson will encourage students to respect traditions and cultures of people, and make them aware of cultural diversity. In recognizing and learning about
common traditions, students become more accepting and work together to find the similarities, rather than focusing on their differences.
How will you engage students in routinely reflecting on their learning?
Students will be able to routinely reflect on their learning by becoming aware of other students and their celebrations/traditions as they occur throughout
the year.
How will you adapt the various aspects of the lesson to differently-abeled students?
If some students are unable to write, allowing them to draw instead will be an option. If students do not have any traditions, discussing something they enjoy
doing with their family will also be allowed.
What opportunities/activities will students be given to revise and improve their understandings and their work?
Students will be able to improve on their understandings of traditions through books in the classroom revolving around different cultures, influences, and
traditions. This continues the learning process and lets them become more familiar with other cultures.
What opportunities/activities will you provide for students to share their learning in this lesson?
Students will share their learning in this activity by sharing with the class traditions they hadn't been aware of and how many are alike and similar.
Lesson Resources/References (please be very specific by providing links, authors, titles, etc.):

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* Include this information during the Popplet presentation.
References
Silverstein, L. B. & Layne, S. (n.d.). Defining arts integration. Retrieved from
http://www.americansforthearts.org/networks/arts_education/publications/special_publications/Defining%20Arts%20Integration.pdf