The lessons below form a sequential unit for primary school children that focuses on the ways artists depict or express feelings of caring and working together in works of art.
Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 1—Everybody Shows They Care Grades/Level: Lower Elementary (K–2) Subjects: Visual Arts Lesson Overview: This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students make connections between their own feelings about caring for something and similar feelings that are expressed in works of art.
Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 2—Everybody Needs Somebody Grades/Level: Lower Elementary (K–2) Subjects: Visual Arts Lesson Overview: This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students study works of art that depict two people who care for each other and study how the artists use line, color, shape, and space to convey the sense of a caring relationship. Students then use these principles to create their own drawings of two caring people.
Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 3—Everybody Works Together Grades/Level: Lower Elementary (K–2) Subjects: Visual Arts Lesson Overview: This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students look at works of art that convey the idea of working together and think about how artists use space—foreground, middle ground, and background—to communicate this concept. In groups they use their knowledge of space to create a three-dimensional tableau that communicates the concept of working together.
Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 4—Everybody Celebrates Grades/Level: Lower Elementary (K–2) Subjects: Visual Arts Lesson Overview: This lesson is part of a sequential unit. In this lesson we celebrate by creating a hat that expresses the ideas of caring relationships and working together that were explored in this unit.
