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LTC 4240: Art for Children
Lesson Title & Big Idea*: Stories
Lesson Overview/Summary*: Through our discussion of stories and they different types of stories students will understand the
different types of stories, how to tell stories with different media, and why stories are important to be shared through Visual Arts,
Literacy, and Social Studies.

Grade Level*: 3
Class Periods Required:
(please circle)
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Key Concepts (3-4): What you want the students to know.*


1. Visual Art:
Artists tell stories through/in their artwork
There are often more than one story or interpretation of the story in
an art piece
2. Literacy:
There are different types of stories and different ways to tell stories
The different stories (fable, folktale, myth, legend) and what is unique
to each type of story
3. Social Studies
Telling stories is a popular way to pass down information from
generation to generation
You learn a lot about a culture based on the types of stories they
share

Essential Questions (3-4)*:


1. What is the story in this art piece?
2. Are there different ways to tell stories through art?
3. What do stories tell us about a person or culture?

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 create a painting or drawing that tell a story using watercolor, crayon and/or markers.
2. Literacy: The students will be able to write a short story that connects to their artwork. The story will be a myth, legend, fable, or folktale.
3. Social Studies: The students will be able to explain what is learned about them or the culture they drew and wrote about.
Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) (3-4) (http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/)
1. Visual Art:
Strand I: Product/Performance: Layer two or more colors using
crayon, colored pencil, or oil pastel
Strand I: Product/Performance: Create an original artwork that
communicates ideas about: community, group identity

Identify & define common vocabulary that connect the art form with the
other identified content areas:
1. Story
2. Myth
3. Legend

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Strand III: Artistic Perceptions: Compare different responses students


may have to the same artwork
2. Literacy:
Reading Standards: Key Ideas and Details: 2. Recount stories,
including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures;
determine the central message, lesson or moral and explain how it is
conveyed through key details in the text.
Writing Standards: Text Types and Purposes: 3. Write narratives to
develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective
technique, descriptive details and clear event sequence.
3. Social Studies
Relationships of Individuals and Groups to Institutions and Traditions:
SS6: Compare how peoples needs have been met in different ways in
different cultures at various times.
Tools of Social Science Inquiry: SS7: Identify and use artifacts (building
structures and materials, works of are representative of cultures,
fossils, pottery tools, clothing, musical instruments)
Content Areas Integrated*:
1. Visual Art (Inspiration Artist: Diego Velaquez)
2. Literacy
3. Social Studies

4. Folktale
5. Fable
6. Culture

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


Day 1
1. Have students come to the carpet and then introduce Diego
Velaquezs Las Meninas on the smartboard- VTS with this painting
What is happening in this painting?
Where is this all-taking place?
2. Have students share their different ideas of the story that this painting
could be telling.
3. Have a class discussion about how art can be interpreted in different
ways
4. Introduce the topic of different kinds of stories. Relate the different types
of stores to how there are different stories in artwork.
5. Read The Tortoise and the Hare as an example of fable- What makes this
story a fable?
6. Read The Elephants Nose as an example of a folktale- What makes this a
folktale?
7. What does this tell us about the African culture?
Day 2

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Review the art piece from yesterday and the fable story and folktale.
Review what characteristics are in a fable?
What characteristics are in a folktale?
Read the South American myth about the jaguar? What makes this a
myth?
What does this myth tell us about the South American culture?
Read Babe and the Blue Ox- what makes this a legend?
Have students return to their seat and pull out paper
Review each kind of story and make a list of characteristics for each
type of story
Have children create the list for themselves to keep

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Day 3
1. On an open table set out some different sized white blank paper and
tubs of water colors, colored pencils and crayons
2. Review the stories from the previous days and what characteristics
are unique to each type
3. Review Velaquezs Las Meninas and how the artwork tells a story
4. Introduce the assignment: Students will find or create
myth/legend/folktale/fable that provides information about a
culture. Students will write out a short story and create a
drawing/painting that accompanies the writing and tells the story
5. Give students the rest of the class to work on the assignment and
present their artwork to the class either later in the day or the
following class
Anticipatory Set (Gaining Attention)*:
1. Visual Art: VTS of Diego Velaquezs Las Meninas
2. Literacy: Show students the different types of stories
3. Social Studies: Students find information within the story that
suggests aspects of the culture being discussed in each book

Closure (Reflecting Anticipatory Set):


Students present their short story and artwork to the class

Formative Assessment strategy:


Summative Assessment strategy*:
1. Visual Art: Did the student use multiple materials and told a story in
1. Visual Art: students used multiple materials and there is a story that
their artwork?
can be interpreted in the artwork.
2. Literacy: Did the student write a myth/fable/folktale/legend?
2. Literacy: Students chose one of the story writing techniques and
3. Social Studies: Did the student include an aspect(s) of a culture in
effectively included characteristics of the chosen story type. Story is

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their art and writing?

at least a paragraph long.


3. Social Studies: Students incorporated aspects of the culture they
chose in their artwork and writing.

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


1. Students will have done VTS in the classroom prior to this activity
2. Students will know that stories have a beginning, middle, and end
3. Students will know about cultures and major aspects (food, clothing) that help define a culture
How will you engage students in imagining, exploring, and/or experimenting in this lesson?
1. By doing VTS students start thinking about stories and how we tell stories and show stories.
2. Students get to create a story and look into cultures they may not be as familiar with and learn about new cultures.
How will this lesson allow for/encourage students to solve problems in divergent ways?
1. The students have guidelines for what needs to be completed but they may approach and complete the assignment in the way they feel theyw will
be the most successful.

How will you engage students in routinely reflecting on their learning?


1. Throughout each day the class will go back and look at the painting and be reminded of VTS
2. Throughout each day the class will review the different types of stories and what criteria each type of story requires
How will you adapt the various aspects of the lesson to differently-abeled students?
1. Because this lesson is mostly student oriented students will be able to approach the task whatever way is best for them
2. There will be assigned class helpers who can take supplies to each table if it is not accessible to each student
What opportunities/activities will students be given to revise and improve their understandings and their work?
1. Students will be able to share work with other students and take them home before the class presentation if there are revisions or improvements
that need to be made

What opportunities/activities will you provide for students to share their learning in this lesson?
1. The students will be able to present their writing and drawing to the class and point out:
The type of story they wrote and what criteria proves it
How their artwork also tells a part of/the whole story

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What characteristics of a culture are in their writing and artwork

Lesson Resources/References (please be very specific by providing links, authors, titles, etc.):

"Babe the Blue Ox: From Paul Bunyan at Americanfolklore.net." Babe the Blue Ox: From Paul Bunyan at Americanfolklore.net.
Minnesota Tall Tales, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2014.
"Myths from Around the World." Myths from Around the World. Scholastic, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2014.

"THE ELEPHANT'S NOSE." (a Folk Tale from Assam ). N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2014.

* 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

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