These PowerPoints demonstrate the kinds of activities and learning outcomes teachers and their students accomplished.
Expanding Involvement: Share with Other Teachers
One outcome of the Lab is to support your school's American Art integration. This is a planner to help expand the impact
of the American art progress--sharing ideas with colleagues.
Resources to Build American Art into the Core Curriculum
Terra Foundation for American Art Website
Online resources from the Terra Foundation: The Civil War in Art
American Art Education Resources
American Art Connections Plan for the School Year
Standards Resource for Lesson Plan
Visual Arts and Reading Standards Align
Common Core Reading Standards--Align with Art Interpretation and
Reading History--including Art History
Useful art education resources from the Getty Museum
Poems Created Based on Works of Art
Forms for Reimbursement and Photos
Field Trip Resources
Each class receives a reimbursement for a field trip to the Art Institute.
The following materials relate to planning and payment for the trip.
Register for a Field Trip to the Art Institute of Chicago
Planning and Activity/Assessment Resources
U.S. History Framework and Resources
Example of a Learning Report--What Did You Learn
Reading/Writing activity resources
Guides that relate art to reading/writing
Developing Literacies with Art
During the 2012-13 school year, teachers will design units that integrate American art.
The following two lesson planners were created prior to the Common Core unit-planning
process, but are relevant examples of effective outcomes-based American art learning plans.
Exemplary Lesson Plan: Washington Crossing the Deleware
