Lesson Idea: a socioemotional lesson involving influences in our lives

Key Concepts: light, line, texture, & emphasis

Materials Explored: colored pencils, crayons, and markers to draw our influences in our lives

Cross-curricular connections: language arts to write sentences about the influences in life 

Historical events happening at the time: Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful man-powered airplane flight, Henry Ford forms the Ford Motor Company to manufacture Automobiles, & first Crayola Crayons

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/11346?search_no=83&index=327

Lesson Idea: With this iconic image, the students would be exploring prominent role of women throughout history. 

Key Concepts: texture, line, unity, & emphasis

Materials Explored: With this image, students would have the materials to explore photography so with iPad cameras, students would be able to play with the different filters and different ways that with a camera you can change HOW the image is portrayed. 

Cross-curricular connections: a language arts lesson can be used with this image to have students write about what they see and then write about what the historical events that they have been learning about so far and then relate it to women.

Important historical events: Hitler announced the building of Volkswagens, 40 hour work week law approved for US Federal employees, and the Hoover Dam begins operating
 
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/190061?search_no=42&index=68

Lesson Idea: Socioemotional lesson on identity during the first week of class to have the students explore themselves 

Key Concepts: color, shape, line, texture, space, repetition, & emphasis

Materials Explored: crayons, colored pencils, & markers

Cross-curricular connections: language arts when creating a word web around self-portraits of the students

Important historical events: Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as a U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post and Hurricane Katrina forms to become a category 5 Hurricane

https://walkerart.org/collections/artworks/pine-flat-portrait-studio-sierra

Lesson Idea: The Roaring 20s

Key Concepts: line, shape, texture, space, unity, variety, & emphasis

Materials Explored: extravagant materials to show the "Jazz Age" like gold colored objects, black construction paper, white crayons, and confetti 

Cross-curricular connections: social studies lesson involving the Roaring 20s especially touching on the advancement of women

Important historical events: The Ford Motor Company announces the creation of a 40-hour work week for factory workers and Route 66, major U.S. road running from Chicago to Los Angeles, opens

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/42120/john-frank-keith-two-women-american-about-1926/

Lesson Idea: history lesson involving the Industrial Revolution

Key Concepts: light, line, shape, rhythm, emphasis, & pattern

Materials Explored: black and white oil pastels and lead pencils to represent a lack of color and life when working in the factory  

Cross-curricular connections: social studies with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and language arts with the students creating sentences based on the picture

Important historical events happening at the time: Immigration into the US hits an all time peak with 8.8 million immigrants over 10 years from 1901-1910 and The Great Fire, also known as the Big Burn or the Big Blowup, began as a forest fire

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301919?sortBy=Relevance&what=Photographs&ft=girls&offset=0&rpp=100&pos=48

Lesson Idea: Through these images and the learning that we have been doing in class with women in history, the students will explore strengths. They will come up with one action that they feel confident in and that they LOVE to do whether it be painting, taking pictures, doing cartwheels, dancing, OR playing a sport, the students will get their picture taken doing that action then talk about their strengths. 

Key Concepts: shape, color, emphasis, & movement

Materials Explored: photographs taken by the students and their peers demonstrating a strength that they have OR something that they really enjoy doing.

Cross-curricular connections: a language arts lesson can be connected to this image since the students will be writing about their strengths

Important historical events: US Government ends mandatory oil import program and President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/281743?sortBy=Relevance&what=Photographs&ft=girls&offset=200&rpp=100&pos=214