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Sustainability Lesson Clearinghouse
Community Gardens and Propaganda Posters
Lesson Description:
Students will be able to…
Students will be able to…
- Analyze meanings in their work and the work of others.
- Understand the connection between art and other disciplines.
- Recognize the effect of environmental factors on health.
- Interpret historical time line data.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how people’s choices can effect the environment.
- Apply art media, techniques, and processes to create a persuasive poster.
Lesson Type:
- Discussion
- Project
Sustainability Topic:
- Gardening
GEF Program Category:
- Green Thumb Challenge
Time Needed:
Three 50 minute class periods
Three 50 minute class periods
Standards Addressed:
Visual Art Connections Standard 1: Understand connections among the various art forms and other disciplines.
Visual Art Standard 1: Understand and apply media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts.
Visual Art Standard 5: Understand the characteristics and merits of one's own artwork and the artwork. of others.
Health Standard 2: Know environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health.
History Standard 1: Understand and know how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns.
Standard 44: Understand the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world.
Geography Standard 14: Understand how human actions modify the physical environment.
Visual Art Connections Standard 1: Understand connections among the various art forms and other disciplines.
- Benchmark #4: Know how various concepts and principles are used in the arts and disciplines outside the arts (e.g., balance, shape, pattern).
Visual Art Standard 1: Understand and apply media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts.
- Benchmark #2: Know how the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes can be used to enhance communication of experiences and ideas.
Visual Art Standard 5: Understand the characteristics and merits of one's own artwork and the artwork. of others.
- Benchmark #2: Understand possible contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks.
- Benchmark #3: Understand how one’s own artworks, as well as artworks from various eras and cultures, may elicit a variety of responses.
Health Standard 2: Know environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health.
- Benchmark #1: Know cultural beliefs, socioeconomic considerations, and other environmental factors within a community that influence the health of its members (e.g., relationship of values, socioeconomic status, and cultural experiences to the selection of health-care services).
- Benchmark #3: Know local, state, federal, and international efforts to contain an environmental crisis and prevent a recurrence (e.g., acid rain, oil spills, solid waste contamination, nuclear leaks, ozone depletion).
History Standard 1: Understand and know how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns.
- Benchmark #3: Know how to interpret data presented in time lines (e.g., identify the time at which events occurred; the sequence in which events developed; what else was occurring at the time). History
Standard 44: Understand the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world.
- Benchmark #6: Understand the emergence of a global culture (e.g., connections between electronic communications, international marketing, and the rise of a popular "global culture" in the late 20th century; how modern arts have expressed and reflected social transformations, political changes, and how they have been internationalized).
Geography Standard 14: Understand how human actions modify the physical environment.
- Benchmark #1: Understand the environmental consequences of people changing the physical environment (e.g., the effects of ozone depletion, climate change, deforestation, land degradation, soil salinization and acidification, ocean pollution, groundwater-quality decline, using natural wetlands for recreational and housing development).
Materials Needed:
- “Victory Garden” worksheet provided
- “What A View” worksheet provided
- “Get the Scoop” worksheet provided
- See attached documents for complete list of materials
Submitted By:
Green Education Foundation (GEF)
Green Education Foundation (GEF)
School or Group:
Green Education Foundation (GEF)
Green Education Foundation (GEF)
Contact Email:
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
service@greeneducationfoundation.org