Lesson Plan
Neighborhood Paintings
Discussing community with your class? Your students will practice their painting skills while making the places they love in their neighborhood.
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Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Paint pictures expressing ideas about their neighborhood.
- Discuss their work and the work of others with constructive feedback.
This art lesson corresponds to California Visual and Performing Arts Standards:
- 2.4 Paint pictures expressing ideas about family and neighborhood.
- 4.1 Discuss their own works of art, using appropriate art vocabulary (e.g., color, shape/form, texture).
- 4.3 Discuss how and why they made a specific work of art.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Tell students that today we will make a painting of a place in our neighborhood. It can be any place you choose, including your house.
- Briefly define community with students.
- Have students brainstorm different community places in pairs, then share out to the whole class. Write their ideas on the board to reference.