Art Integration Lesson Plan Template 1

Art Integration Lesson Plan Template

LTC 4240: Art for Children
Lesson Title & Big Idea*: History of Thanksgiving -- Relationships
Lesson Overview/Summary*:
Students will learn the history of Thanksgiving through VTS The First Thanksgiving 1621 by J.L.G Ferris, reading various
books about Thanksgiving and researching how it was started and why that is important.
Key Concepts (3-4): What you want the students to know.*
1. Visual Art: See all elements of what the first Thanksgiving was like. Have a
picture they can mentally make conclusions about. The students will draw a
picture at the end of the lesson of how they think the first Thanksgiving
looked.
2. Literacy: Read stories on the first Thanksgiving and how it is now portrayed
in books.
3. History: How Thanksgiving was started and why it was/is important.

Grade Level*: 2-3

Class Periods Required:
(please circle)

1 2 3
Essential Questions (3-4)*:
How did the first Thanksgiving start?
What were the relationships between the Native Americans and the
Pilgrims?
How have the ideas of what Thanksgiving is about changed?

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 explain what the first Thanksgiving by how it is pictured in The First Thanksgiving 1621 and why that is important.
The students will be able to portray their thinking in the drawings they create based on their research.
2. Literacy: The students will be able to construct ideas about how Thanksgiving has changed and first was by book comprehension along with other research
3. History: The students will be able to discuss the events that lead up/started Thanksgiving and how it was/is important.
Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) (3-4) (http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/)
Identify & define common vocabulary that connect the art form with the
1. Visual Art:
other identified content areas:
Native Americans: a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the
Visually literate citizens understand the role and functions of art in
Americas.
history and culture. Artists influence and are influenced by the
Pilgrims: a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
cultures and time periods in which they live.
Visual art is connected to performing arts, communication arts, math, Colonists: a settler in or inhabitant of a colony.
Thankful: expressing gratitude and relief.
science, and social studies.
Gratitude: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for
2. Literacy:
and to return kindness.
Recognize, with assistance, that not all sources are credible.
Harvest: the process or period of gathering in crops.
Identify varying viewpoints in multiple sources.
Tradition: the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to
3. History:
generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.
Compare and contrast the habitats, resources, art and daily lives of
Treaty: a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.
native American peoples, Woodland and Plains Indians
Peace: freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility.
Explain how people have common physical, social and emotional

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needs
Describe how needs are met by families and friends

Content Areas Integrated*:

1. Visual Art (Inspiration Artist: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris)
2. Literacy- Reading to research
3. History- Learning the perspectives and circumstances of the Pilgrims and
Native Americans.

Voyage: a long journey involving travel by sea or in space.

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

1. Show students the picture to VTS
2. Talk about the conclusions they can come to about the picture in a
discussion. (mainly trying to focus on the relationships between pilgrims and
Native Americans)
3. Present a few books with different ideas of what the first Thanksgiving
was like.
4. Allow the student to look up and follow their own research of what the
first Thanksgiving was like and the relationships between those involved.
5. Bring it back to whole room discussion to talk about what was found
during the research and how it was different from the books first presented.
6. Instruct the students to create their own variations of their ideas of how
the first Thanksgiving would have really looked.
7. After students have the chance to finish their drawings, create a share
circle to conclude the lesson by sharing their drawings and findings to the
class.
Anticipatory Set (Gaining Attention)*:
Closure (Reflecting Anticipatory Set):
Start with a VTS of The First Thanksgiving 1621
Draw how they think the first Thanksgiving looked now that they have
discussed and researched.
Formative Assessment strategy:
Summative Assessment strategy*:
Listening to the discussion put forth by the students, the research that The final drawing they make from how they think the first Thanksgiving
students present during the discussion.
looked compared to their own.
What student prior knowledge will this lesson require/draw upon?
The students ideas of their own Thanksgiving and why it has come about.
How will you engage students in imagining, exploring, and/or experimenting in this lesson?
They will draw their own conclusions that will be shown in their pictures and ideas of what it would have looked like.
How will this lesson allow for/encourage students to solve problems in divergent ways?
They will draw their own conclusions about how it would have been at the first Thanksgiving. (Different drawings)
How will you engage students in routinely reflecting on their learning?
Check in with the students and listen to their ideas as they change and morph from the ideas given.
How will you adapt the various aspects of the lesson to differently-abeled students?
ADHD- check off sheets to keep them on task and moving forward.
What opportunities/activities will students be given to revise and improve their understandings and their work?

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They can change and revise their ideas of Thanksgiving as they go throughout the lesson.
What opportunities/activities will you provide for students to share their learning in this lesson?
The students can present their pictures and experiences throughout the lesson to the class in a circle share.
Lesson Resources/References (please be very specific by providing links, authors, titles, etc.):
Picture found on https://beyondthebubble.stanford.edu/assessments/first-thanksgiving
Books include Twas the Night Before Thankgiving, The Perfect Thanksgiving, Thanks for Thanksgiving, etc

* 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