This lesson provides an examination of images and the creation of role plays through which students will explore the various perspectives of the Boston Massacre, understanding how this controversial day in history played a part in the outbreak of the American Revolution.

In this lesson, the students will examine a variety of pottery forms; discuss their meanings, functions, and the different cultures that created them. This lesson will explore ways that pottery characteristics can give clues about how the forms were used in the past and their value based on the cultures that created them. We will also include the pottery made by the students in the first class to compare their choices for form, function and discuss if their ideas were influenced from their past knowledge of pottery. We will discuss, compare and critique each group’s responses. This lesson was developed by Belinda Coston as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will learn about their own community by using recyclables to create a class sculpture. They will understand Heidelberg neighborhood and apply their own ideas to construct their ideal community.

This free website provides more than 600 adaptable lesson plans written by teachers in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum for more than 130 objects from the museums world-class art collection. Lesson plans and resources focus on inspiring students to think and problem-solve creatively. Organized in an easy way so that teachers can pick the topic they would like to explore or enhance, then use works of art to teach that subject.

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