Lesson Plans
Full Year Curriculum: Making Connections & Building Classroom Community
This sample curriculum for Grades 9-12 reveals a year-long exploration of making personal, cultural, and community connections through art.
Built for a Studio Art 1 course, students will gain material knowledge as well as engage in discourse about the local and global community in
which they live. Students will be exposed to art historical and contemporary works through presentations, literature and field trips to local
museums. To see this curriculum, including units, lessons and assessments, click here!
Built for a Studio Art 1 course, students will gain material knowledge as well as engage in discourse about the local and global community in
which they live. Students will be exposed to art historical and contemporary works through presentations, literature and field trips to local
museums. To see this curriculum, including units, lessons and assessments, click here!
Unit Plan: Arts of the Ancient World
During the span of three lessons, students learn about three different ancient civilizations through the study of their artifacts. Students
incorporate their knowledge from History and the Social Sciences to make cross-cultural connections by interpreting and decoding what they
encounter in class and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. To see this plan, click here!
incorporate their knowledge from History and the Social Sciences to make cross-cultural connections by interpreting and decoding what they
encounter in class and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. To see this plan, click here!
Museum of Me
Inspired by Isabella Stewart Gardner and her Museum, students will become the curators of their own museum. Students create a space using
assemblage to display different aspects of themselves through the things they collect or would like to collect. While creating the assemblage,
students reflect on their identities, interests, backgrounds and culture to make a gallery or museum dedicated to who they are.
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assemblage to display different aspects of themselves through the things they collect or would like to collect. While creating the assemblage,
students reflect on their identities, interests, backgrounds and culture to make a gallery or museum dedicated to who they are.
To see this plan, click here!
Cultural Comics
Following a lesson on bookmaking, students create a narrative in the form of illustrated comics. Students explore different types of comics
that reference cultural background or heritage to inform the cultural story they would like to relay. During their creative process, students will
reflect on their own backgrounds and cultural experiences in order to convey an individually specific story through their comics.
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that reference cultural background or heritage to inform the cultural story they would like to relay. During their creative process, students will
reflect on their own backgrounds and cultural experiences in order to convey an individually specific story through their comics.
To see this plan, click here!