Welcome to great art!
Artful Assessment lessons are based on Looking to Learn: Teaching Across the Curriculum with the Portland Museum of Art.
Click on the lessons below for the full lesson text, assessments, teacher reflections, examples of student work, and video of classroom activities.
Joseph Marriner Gerrish Family, Artist Unidentified (circa 1824)
Social Studies Lesson:
Paths to Portland
Visual Arts Lesson:
Collage Family Portraits
by Sally Mitchell and David Millard, Presumpscot Elementary School, Portland
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Royal Arches, Yosemite Valley, California by Albert Bierstadt (circa 1872)
Language Arts Lesson:
Dream On
Visual Arts Lesson:
Visions of Your Utopia
by Maryjane Johnston and Lois Allen, Nathan Clifford Elementary School, Portland
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Twilight at Stroudwater by Charles Frederick Kimball (1879)
Language Arts Lesson:
Sunrise, Sunset
Visual Arts Lesson:
The Lay of the Land
by Sherman Kendall and Rebecca Walsh, Hall Elementary School, Portland
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Weatherbeaten by Winslow Homer (1894)
Language Arts Lesson:
Ocean Experiences
Visual Arts Lesson:
Feel the Force!
by Allison Villani and Lynn Provencher, Reiche Elementary School, Portland
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Woodmen in the Woods of Maine by Waldo Peirce (1937)
Social Studies Lesson:
Murals of Maine Counties
Visual Arts Lesson:
Picturing Maine in the Strangest Places
by Emily Serway and Val Vassar, Riverton Elementary School, Portland
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Dark Harbor Fishermen by N. C. Wyeth (1943)
Social Studies Lesson:
Bringing Maine Industries to Life
Visual Arts Lesson:
Ocean Prints
by Joanne Maloney and David Sloatman, Wentworth Intermediate School, Scarborough
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Untitled by Louise Nevelson (circa 1975-1976)
Social Studies Lesson:
The Assemblage of Me
Visual Arts Lesson:
Found Object Assemblages
by Cam Weir and Mary Jo Moore, Yarmouth Elementary School, Yarmouth
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Blue Savanna by Dahlov Ipcar (1978)
Science Lesson:
The Living Planet
Visual Arts Lesson:
A Colorful Puzzle
by Debbie DiGregorio and Janine Martin,
C. K. Burns School, Saco
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Wrathful Deities by Celeste Roberge (1983)
Language Arts Lesson:
Words and Wire
Visual Arts Lesson:
Elemental Sculptures
by Patricia Reed and Cynthia Rotolo, East End Community School, Portland
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