Designing a Dish
Students will locate different symbols on the Chinese Dish with Eight Buddhist Emblems, then choose three of their favorite symbols to create on their own paper plate dishes.
Students will locate different symbols on the Chinese Dish with Eight Buddhist Emblems, then choose three of their favorite symbols to create on their own paper plate dishes.
After spending time exploring aspects of the Ancestor Portrait and the importance of ancestor portraits in the Chinese tradition, students will create an ancestor portrait using mixed media materials and present it to the class.
Students will use visual observation skills to carefully examine the Assyrian Bird-Headed Deity limestone relief and explore the movement, sounds, and traits of different animals. They will first explore these aspects in humans and birds of prey, as seen in the limestone relief, and will then do the same with “animals” they create from two or more animals. This lesson enables children to draw upon previous knowledge and imagination in order to act out the movement, sounds, and other traits of the animals they create.
Students will imagine and describe the experience of drinking a green soda like Nellie in Nellie and Her Italian Soda, Boulder. They will then imagine their own special drink and describe what they pictured.
Students will use Robert Benjamin’s photograph Nellie and Her Italian Soda, Boulder to create a narrative about the moments that occurred before, during, and after the photograph was taken.
After spending time exploring the historical context and meaning of the Buddhist symbols on the Dish, students will choose symbols they want to include on a plate as a gift for a powerful person today.
Students will take turns using language, physical gestures, and minor props to depict a person they have chosen from Garry Winogrand’s Los Angeles. The class will guess who is being depicted and then create a story about what happens next.
Children will first compare their everyday drinking containers to containers they use on special occasions. They will then learn about the importance of the tea ceremony in Japan and the special containers used for these ceremonies.
Students will learn about The Things I Have to Do to Maintain Myself and what the kosha (the character featured in the sculpture is a kosha) is wearing and why. They will then tour a place they are familiar with, such as their school, and locate where they are on a map of the building. While on the tour they will notice how individuals perform different activities in different places and are sometimes required to wear specific clothing to do their work.
Students will examine Roxanne Swentzell’s The Things I Have to Do to Maintain Myself and create a story about the piece.
Students will have fun acting out a scene in which they are sneaking a cookie from a cookie jar, and then use this experience to write a story inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting Cow Licking.
Students will closely examine an image of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Petunia and Glass Bottle. They will then use words to capture what they see. The teacher will use those words to write a poem about the painting.