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II. Lesson Plan and Activities
Lesson 4: Analyzing Your Partner’s Art
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
What are values and how do they help define one’s
culture?
Expanding one’s awareness of other cultures
enhances appreciation of the lives of peers living in
another country.
What are the advantages of using art (non-linguistic
communication) instead of written or verbal means of
Art is a universal language that can convey cultural
conveying ideas?
norms and values.
How does the process of creating art give perspective
of one’s own culture?
How does the environment affect my partner’s daily
life? How does it affect my own?
Activity
One’s natural environment affects one’s culture.
Description and Important Points
1. Partner Art
Analysis
Materials
a. Working individually or in small groups, students analyze one or
more pieces of art from the Rainforest ArtLink partner class.
b. Students use their Analyzing Your Partner’s Artwork worksheet to
reflect on and respond to their partner’s artwork.
c. First, students look for information only by examining the partner’s
artwork.
d. Second, students read the accompanying Artist Description Sheet
ADS to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning and intent of
the partner artist.
e. Each student or group shares the central ideas or information
identified in the partner’s artwork providing an accurate summary
based on information from the image and its ADS.
f. Class shares examples of environmental settings or elements in
their partners’ artwork. Discuss in what ways the environment
affects your partner's lives?
Rainforest
ArtLink
Partner
Artwork
Artist
Description
Sheets ADS
Analyzing
Your
Partner’s
Artwork
worksheets
Rainforest ArtLink Tool Box: Strategies for Deeper Understanding
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Create an Art Exhibit (Strongly recommended)
• Host a reception and have students serve as docents, describing their Rainforest ArtLink experience.
• Typically the exhibit consists of:
- Original artwork created by partner class including the Artist Description Sheets
- Color copies of the home class’ artwork and the Artist Description Sheets
- A description including facts about partner class city/country and cultural values and norms
- Include student quotes from class discussion, partner art analysis or video
Students work in small groups or individually depending on age/grade and ability level. Check the U.S.
Grade Level Learning Standards for specific objectives for age/grade appropriate content.
Sharing strategies can be verbal as with a Group Critique, Pair Share, or Turn and Talk. Other strategies
might include writing or other aesthetic activities, such as a Gallery Walk.
Students expand on responses in personal journals or by video.
Use the Cultural Iceberg illustration to identify “visible” and “invisible” aspects of culture shown in your
partners’ art (see Appendix).
US Learning Standards
Addressed Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11 -12
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