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A Continuous Story in Art
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Students will focus on how one artist tells the story of Joseph using continuous narrative. By observing and discussing visual details such as color and movement found in the painting, students write about what they think is happening. Students are encouraged to use the actions they observed in the painting to create and write a new story with a new character, and then illustrate them in their own continuous narrative.

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Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
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05/22/2013
Create an Illuminated Alphabet Word Book
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Students create a class alphabet book or "ABCDarium," a book that uses images of animals or objects to illustrate each letter of the alphabet. The book is in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript and incorporates both art and writing. Students decorate large uppercase letters of the alphabet and draw an original picture to illustrate each letter.

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Arts and Humanities
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/22/2013
Creating a Garden (Beginning Level)
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Students will observe images of gardens, visualizing and imagining the shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and smells of the plants, flowers, and other objects in a garden. They will also write about and sketch their observations. Students will then design and create a model of their own imagined garden.

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Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/22/2013
Debating the Bomb
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Students will research how the development of the atomic bomb affected people in World War II, participate in a debate about the bomb's use, and investigate how it has affected people's lives since 1945.

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Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
World Cultures
World History
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
Decorating Objects...and Re-Decorating
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Students will discuss the form and function of Chinese porcelain with gilt-bronze mounts that were added by French artists. They will decorate cups or bowls with thematic designs then "sell" these works to partners role-playing as French tourists. Partners will add decorations to the original designs. Each student will also write an account of his or her object's journey.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/22/2013
Depicting Motherhood in Family Stories
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Students examine the roles of mothers and grandmothers by looking at black-and-white photographs of one American family and comparing that family's multi-generational story with their own. Students will make a photo-collage triptych based on the theme of multi-generational families. This lesson connects to SRA's "Open Court Reading" units "Our Country and Its People" and "Sharing Stories."

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Arts and Humanities
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
Depicting Women and Class in a Global Society (Beginning Level)
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Students will compare a painting depicting hatmakers at work to a portrait of a noblewoman of leisure. Next, pupils will write narratives from the perspectives of the women depicted in the paintings and then create a paper hat.

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Arts and Humanities
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
Depicting Women and Class in a Global Society (Intermediate Level)
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Students will discuss the evolution of women's work from the mid-19th century to the present day and then create an artwork depicting women in contemporary times.

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Arts and Humanities
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
A Design for a Fireplace: Extreme Home Makeover
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Students will examine a relief sculpture, focusing on its style, function, and design. They will then create a three-dimensional sketch for a decorative overmantel for a patron of their choice as part of an extreme home makeover. This sketch should reflect a current fashionable style.

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Arts and Humanities
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
Documentary Photography: Body Image
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Students will analyze a photograph to learn about body image. They will also discuss how society views the human body in different cultures.

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Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/22/2013
Documentary Photography: Civil Rights Through Image and Text
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Students will learn about the juxtaposition of image and text to define the social and psychological mood of the civil rights movement in the United States.

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Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
Documentary Photography: Photography and Choreography
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Students will engage in visual and written activities that will support their creative process of choreographing a solo dance composition. The lesson includes motifs and the movement components -- body, effort, shape, and space (BESS elements from Laban Movement Analysis).

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Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
Dorothea Lange and the Relocation of Japanese Americans
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Students learn about the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through an analysis of Dorothea Lange's photographs, the "Pledge of Allegiance," and a U.S. government flyer from 1942, students discuss the complexities of U.S. history and politics.

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Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
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05/27/2013
Dramatizing Europa
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Students will observe the painting "The Abduction of Europa" by Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn. They will then form groups to create a "tableau vivant" (living picture) inspired by Rembrandt's "The Abduction of Europa." Students will choose a character in the painting and create a scenario about what they think happened and what the character said before and after the scene. Each group will then collaborate and perform their tableau vivant for the class.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/22/2013
Dream Bed
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After viewing and discussing two beds in the Getty's collection, students design and write descriptions of imaginary beds. Students will understand that everyday objects can be works of art, and that artists can design functional items that reflect their ideals of beauty.

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Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/22/2013
"A Dream of Classic Perfection"
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Students will examine primary sources in order to draw conclusions about the influence of Greek art and philosophy on the French Revolution. Students will compare the goals of the French Revolution to those of Neoclassical artists. Students will understand how visual language and style reflects underlying values in society by writing an analysis of the narrative in a work of art.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
Environmental Impact
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Students will analyze a 20th century photograph of a Los Angeles landscape, utilizing the principles of design and discussing the message of the work. They will also consider the history of Los Angeles within the broader context of population expansion in U.S. history and write a research paper about the environmental impacts of overpopulation.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013
Exhibiting Common Threads
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Students analyze Dorothea Lange's photographs and identify key themes in her work. They then create a thematic exhibition pairing Lange's work with work by artists who explore the same themes in other media.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/27/2013