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Artist: Dave Muller
Date: 2016
Media: Acrylic on Wall
Key Concepts/Vocabulary: author, illustrator, inference
Lesson Idea: In this lesson we will be discussing our favorites books. After reading some books in class, the students will be creating their own book cover. They can either choose a book they have read or a book that is their favorite and design a new cover for it, or invent their own book. The book cover should include some type of picture the students draw, the title, an author, and an illustrator (themselves). This lesson will encourage reading for fun and leisure time.
Grade Level: 5-6
Materials Explored: multi-media paper & colored pencils
Cross-Curricular: Reading
Historical Connection: N/A

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Artist: Marsden Hartley
Date: 1919
Media: oil on canvas
Key Concepts/Vocabulary: Mountain ranges, geography, weather patterns, hiking, location of mountains, and states that have mountains.
Lesson Idea: We will read the book Peak by Rolland Smith. This book talks a lot about mountains and what it means to climb them, the weather changes and much more. Students learn about leisurely hikes to extreme hikes in this text. From there, students will have the agency to draw their own mountain ranges, incorporating things they read about in the book.
Grade Level: 5-6
Materials Explored: oil pastels and multimedia paper
Cross-Curricular: Reading, Social Studies: Geography and Mountain Ranges and science: weather change from the bottom and top of mountains
Historical Connection: N/A

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Artist: Andy DuCett
Date: 2008-2010
Media: pencil, pen, colored pencil, & mixed media on paper
Key Concepts/Vocabulary: map, compass, directions, north, south, east, west,
Lesson Idea: For this lesson we will be having the students look and learn about how to read maps. After looking at some maps, we will have the students create their own maps. They were make a map starting at their house going to one of their favorite vacation spots or a place where they would love to vacation and have a nice leisure time. Their maps ned to include roads, and different landmarks throughout the map.
Grade Level: 4-5
Materials Explored: multi-media paper, colored pencils, & crayons
Cross-Curricular: Geography - Maps
Historical Connection: N/A

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Artist: Maynard Dixon
Date: 1925
Media: Oil on Canvas
Ket Concepts/Vocabulary: clouds, day dreaming, imagination
Lesson Idea: For this lesson, we will bring children outside and have them lay down and watch the clouds as a leisurely activity. We will encourage students to use their imagination to brainstorm the different shapes, objects, animals, or activities they see in the clouds. While doing this, the teacher will point out and explain different types of clouds in the sky. This could be used as the hook for a science lesson on clouds. Students will then use oil pastels to draw what they see up above.
Grade Level: 2-3
Materials Explored: Oil pastels and multi-media paper
Cross-Curricular: Math: shapes & Science: types of clouds
Historical Connection: N/A

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Artist: Fredrick Childe Hassam
Date: 1899
Media: Oil on Canvas
Key Concepts/Vocabulary: ocean, beach, vacation, rocks
Lesson Idea: In this lesson we will be exploring the ocean. We will be looking at different types of sea life and rocks found near and in the ocean. Our motivation is creating an ocean where you can do your favorite ocean activities, like surfing, swimming, sailing, shell searching, sand castles, etc.
Grade Level: 5-6
Materials Explored: multi-media paper & colored pencils
Cross-Curricular: Science
Historical Connection: N/A

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Artist: Paul Signac
Date: 1923
Media: Oil on Canvas
Key Concepts/Vocabulary: sail, housing, parts of sailboat
Lesson Idea: In this lesson we will have students design their own sailboat sails. Some people go sailing as a leisure activity. The motivation for this lesson will be having the students imagine what it would be like to live on a boat and what they would want their boat to look like. While they create their boats, they will think about what colors they would like it to be, what their sail will look like, and why they chose it to look like that.
Grade Level: 5-6
Materials Explored: Multi-media paper, oil pastels
Cross-Curricular Connections: Social Studies - housing
Historical Connection: Roarin' 20s