Artful Assessment

The Portland Museum of Art is pleased to present this teacher resource about arts-integration and arts assessment. Highlighting great works of art from the Portland Museum of Art’s collections, Artful Assessment demonstrates how the visual arts can integrate with a variety of content areas through lesson plans in language arts, science, social studies, and the visual arts for third, fourth, and fifth grades. Discover the impact of the arts on student learning by using a variety of assessment tools and techniques.

Artful Assessment was developed by Maine classroom teachers and arts specialists who partnered with the Portland Museum of Art to explore formative and summative assessments related to the lessons in Looking to Learn: Teaching Across the Curriculum with the Portland Museum of Art.

In this resource you will find:

• Nine works of art featuring two lesson plans: one visual arts lesson and one lesson in another content area: language arts, science, or social studies.
• Instructional plans linking learning objectives, Maine Learning Results, lesson activities, and assessments.
• Assessment tools including rubrics, worksheets, examples of student art and writing, peer review, and self-assessments.
• Teacher reflections and comments about lesson procedures and assessment practices.
• Alignments to the Maine Learning Results.
• Information and definitions of assessments, as well as links to other assessment resources.
• Video clips of classroom activities and assessments in action!

Explore Artful Assessment in three ways!

• Teaching with Art – discover art to inspire your students.
• Assessments – understand assessment tools and find examples.
• Maine Learning Results – search for lessons by the standards.