This is the PowerPoint and lesson plan associated with the lesson 8 Tribes, 1 State.

Students will explore different pieces of artwork to determine the artist's perspective, tone and/or mood, and draw several inferences.  Students will also explore altered images of the original artwork to explore changes of tone, mood, and perspective.  

Students will engage in learning activities of 'Creating and Making' and 'Exploring and Responding'. The 'Creating and Making' activities include: plein-air drawing; creating a tour itinerary; digital landscape; sights and sounds journal; and making a film. 'Exploring and Respondin' exercises include: art and science; painting pictures with words; imagining a new land; building on the landscape tradition; perspective; compare and contrast; the legacy of von Guerard; and appropriating von Guerard.

Students are introduced to the impact of the railroad to the countryside in mid-nineteenth century America. They depict two versions of the same scenery as they envision it in the past and in the future. Lastly, they write an essay on how they would preserve the environment as the head of a railroad company. Included in this resource are links to, EPA games and quizzes, science lesson plans, and satellite images of environmental change.

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Students are introduced to a popular toy from the nineteenth century, the hobbyhorse, through a painting by Robert Peckham and a contemporary popular children's verse. They then complete research on other toys from this time period, selecting one to compare to its closest modern-day equivalent. Then, they draw a portrait of themselves with a favorite toy or object.