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🎨 3rd Grade · ArtVA:Cr1.2Unit 4: Art across cultures

Inspired by a tradition

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🎯 Objective: Students create work inspired by a cultural art form (e.g., Mexican papel picado, Japanese notan).

Lesson outline

  1. Learn the form.
  2. Create.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: what inspired you.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Cr1.2

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe art from different cultures and times
  • Create art inspired by a culture

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Art across cultures”

  1. Art from around the world
  2. Inspired by a tradition
  3. Native American art

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