With scaffolding, this project can be presented in grades 6 - 12. 2. Students identify interactions of elements and principles of art that contribute to expressive qualities. Students investigate and discuss art techniques brought from other places and adopted and adapted by American artists. Students develop and apply appropriate criteria in critiquing their own work and the work of others, including the work of recognized visual artists. Students experiment with visual information in a variety of ways such as elaboration, distortion, enlargement, and simplification.
Students originate art which utilizes personal symbols and celebrates individuality.
If you have students from cultures with non-Roman writing traditions, see if they would be comfortable teaching the class about their tradition. Each group that participates in the web-based activity will visit a different list of sites in order for students to teach each other and to stimulate them to share their insights and reactions to the material. With this in mind, I think each group should have no more than four members. While they are engaged in the group activity, students should be encouraged to note sites they are interested in returning to in order to do their sketches. Some students will likely choose to sketch from the same images and can work in pairs.