Students will become familiar with the terms landscape, iconography, abstract, and will revisit the terms foreground, middle ground, and background; explore how the artist's perception impacts the way he or she interprets and represents a subject.

Students will be introduced to some of the conventions of portraiture; consider how symbols can be used in a portrait to add meaning; be introduced to the technique of photomontage.

Students will be introduced to the strategy of collage; be introduced to the concept of chance and how it has played a role in the production of visual art; explore how artists incorporated materials from everyday life into their works of art, including images from the mass media.

Students will consider their own definitions of art; consider how Dada and Surrealist artists challenged conventional ideas of art; be introduced to Readymades and photograms.

Students will look at Ortega's installation art "False Movement (Stability and Economic Growth), read about the work, and describe the work in detail. Students will explore the concepts of capitalism, politics, and social issues and how they may be addressed through art by investigating aspects of form and structure such as fragility, levity, gravity, and weight; balance and tension. Students will participate in The Marshmallow Challenge (link provided). Students will also create a digital collage on a topic that concerns them.

This resource is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document is on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.

Students will be introduced to artists who developed new visual forms through experimentation; consider artists' choices of material; introduced to the term "Constructivism."

Students will be introduced to the principles of the Bauhaus; consider the elements of chair design; introduced to the printmaking technique of lithography; consider how technological progress affects art and design.

Students will make connections between two design objects intended for different purposes; be introduced to the ways in which artists can affect social and political behavior through design.

Students will compare two different designs for theatrical costumes by artists Oskar Schlemmer and Lissitzky; consider how these artists applied their artistic ideals to theater design.

Students will be introduced to two artists, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, who pioneered different systems of abstract painting; consider how the two artists' use of shape, line, composition, and color reflect both similarities and differences in their artistic ideologies.

This site describes the Mercantilist System, the colonies' rules for trading and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. It also reviews the politics and the economics of the four major regions: plantation south, middle colonies, New England, and Frontier.

Objectives for Learners: Students will: 1. Study the early life and innovations of Benjamin Franklin using a variety of media (autobiography, biographies, Internet web sites, condensed history or display boards, dramatic presentation); 2. Prepare written answers to selected Introductory Questions based upon their individual or shared research.

This resource explains the cause of inflation, how it is measured, and how people can protect themselves from it.

This resource provides background information on Eli Whitney and explains how and why he created the cotton gin.

This resource provides background information on the Emancipation Proclamation and how it was viewed from varying perspectives.

This curriculum is intended to provide students and teachers with the tools to analyze photography. Each lesson is easily adaptable to enhance learning on any theme, topic, or historical period that is expressed by, or documented in, photographs. The lessons in this curriculum are intended to be used sequentially. Students will learn the basic tools for analyzing images using description, reflection, and formal analysis.

This lesson contains three activities. Each activity uses a different object to explore one method of analysis and emphasize concentrated looking. When using non-photographic images, emphasize that the tools students are learning can be used to analyze any work of art from any time period, including photographs. This activity is an engaging way to help students create rich, descriptive sentences. Learning to write these sentences will be helpful when students create their own artist's statements in later lessons.

Students will read an artist's statement by Dorothea Lange and write an artist's statement based on their own photographs. Students will examine the relationship between photography and the artist's statement; look closely at their own works of art; and use the methods of description, reflection, and formal analysis to write their own artist's statements.