| Stories
of Art Teachers’ Supplement
Stories of Art
Introduction to Stories of
Art: Curriculum Resource
How
Can Stories Increase Learning?
Making
Connections with Stories of Art
The
Big Picture
Matrix
of Inquiry Issues
Common
Core Standards for Reading
What
Is Inquiry? Tempe Center for the Arts Educational Resource
Vocabulary for Each Stories
of Art Theme
Vocabulary
ArtsConnectEd Supplements: Artworks for Each
Stories of Art Theme
Click on any theme below for links to artworks available online
through ArtsConnectEd, a service of the Minneapolis Art Institute
and the Walker Museum of Art. You may want to print out these artworks
to add to your Stories of Art notebook.
Theme
1: Our Place in the World
Theme
2: Farm Folk City Folk
Theme
3: Great Teachers Long Ago
Theme
4: Spiritual Worlds
Theme
5: When Cultures Meet
Theme
6: Powerful Families
Theme
7: Protest and Persuasion
Theme
8: Technology
Theme
9: The Individual
Theme
10: The Global Village
Graphic Organizers for Each Stories
of Art Theme
1.
Fee's Cape
2.
Problem Analysis
3.
Story Structure & Elements
4.
Patterns All Around
5.
Compare & Contrast
6.
Art Traditions & Art Roles
7.
Actions & Consequences
8.
Step-By-Step Process
9.
Artist Bubble Map
10.
Relationship Map—Influences
Stories of Art
Writing Supplement by Karla Primosch
Art and Writing
6 + 1 Traits ®
The following lessons will usually require more than one class period,
especially to accommodate pre-writing, writing, revision, and presentation.
You may want to print out the following lessons to add to your Stories
of Art notebook.
Our
Place in the World
Farm Folk
City Folks
Great Teachers
Long Ago
Spiritual
Worlds
When Cultures
Meet
Powerful
Families
Protest
and Persuasion
Technology
The Individual
The Global
Village
Art Making and Meaning: Understanding
through Questions
Click here to read about
a new resource that builds on what students learn in Stories of
Art.
Introduction to Stories
of Art
Stories of Art is a collection of eight short stories written
especially for use in elementary and middle school art classrooms.
In each story, young people use art to solve a real problem in their
lives. The fictional stories are based on broad interdisciplinary
themes that parallel developments in cultures across the globe.
Two additional units provide students the opportunity to write their
own stories.
The themes include:
Our Place in the World
Farm Folk City Folk
Great Teachers Long Ago
Spiritual Worlds
When Cultures Meet
Powerful Families
Protest and Persuasion
Technology
The Individual
The Global Village
In addition to the story, each unit presents ideas for research
projects and art-making activities that use the story as a springboard
for learning about art in different cultures. Also included is an
extensive list of interdisciplinary activities that help students
transfer their knowledge across the curriculum. National Visual
Art Standards are aligned to each unit.
Art and Writing
Stories of Art is an art-driven curriculum resource. This writing
supplement provides teachers with tools to reinforce writing standards.
James Blasingame, a Six Traits® writing expert, concludes in
“Educational Reform and Its Connection to Art Instruction:
Art and Writing” (Translations, 2005) that “student
writers have been proven to find much greater success in writing
about topics in which they have a personal interest and investment,
such as their own artwork and experience with art.” Not only
do the stories in Stories of Art involve young people as
protagonists, they also help students generate and refine ideas
for their own art making.
The purpose of this resource is to increase achievement in both
art and writing – neither discipline in service to the other
but each complementing and augmenting the other. This writing supplement,
like Stories of Art, is written for elementary and middle
school teachers. Teachers are invited to review lessons to select
and adapt those they deem most appropriate for their students and
curriculum.
6 + 1 Trait ®
The Northwestern Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) has identified
a 6 + 1 Trait® writing approach. Each writing lesson employs
specific traits identified by name. Refer to the Website of the
NWREL (http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/scoring.php?odelay=3&d=1)
for the complete set of traits. You may want to print out these
traits to add to your Stories of Art notebook.
Art Making and Meaning:
Understanding through Questions
Art Making and Meaning is a DVD/CD resource also available
from CRIZMAC, which uses the same key questions as the Stories
of Art lessons. Stories of Art is a foundation for
inquiry-based art instruction. Art Making and Meaning builds
on that foundation. Though designed for secondary and beginning
college students, much of the content is adaptable for younger learners,
especially if students have already been introduced to inquiry through
Stories of Art.
The Art Making and Meaning DVD provides interviews with
artists focused on the key questions introduced in Stories of
Art. Interactive CD activities: 1) review what students learn
from the artists on the DVD, 2) apply each question to objects from
our everyday visual world, and 3) practice making distinctions among
choices of questions to increase students’ awareness of art
inquiry strategies.
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