1. ART HISTORY FOR THE VERY YOUNG Art history Timeline for Elementary Students: A Comprehensive Year-Long Art History Program

2. It’s Easy to Create Projects for Every Period of Art History Prehistoric Art Mesopotamia and Sumerian Egyptian Art Greek Art Roman Art Middle Ages Renaissance Post Renaissance /Baroque Impressionism

3. Your projects can meet the state and national goals and standards… Art Materials and process Aesthetics (Includes structures & functions, elements & principles) Subjects/Themes Art History/Cultures Criticism/Evaluation Interdisciplinary Connections

4. Choose your period of history…

5. Focus on the Materials and Processes PROCESS MATERIALS TEMPERA WATERCOLOR CRAYON PENCIL/CHARCOAL PASTELS/OIL PASTELS CLAY PAPER SCULPTURE FIBERS METAL PAINTING DRAWING SCULPTURE CLAY/POTTERY PRINTMAKING CRAFTS

6. Plan the Lessons Period of History… Choose the grade level… Decide on the process… Select the materials…. Write the lesson plans.

7. PREHISTORIC ART Large Chalk Drawings Petroglyphs Chalk Animal Drawings Charcoal Drawing Cave walls

8. Mesopotamia/Sumeria Cuneiform writing Design Sumerian Crowns

9. EGYPTIAN ART Sarcophagus Designs Shawbti (Clay Mummy Sculptures) Egyptian Tomb Drawings Pyramids Animal Sculptures Cartouche and Hieroglyphs Jewelry –Scarabs

10. Egyptian Sarcophagus designs… Small Designs (12x18) Large designs - Life-size As a slab clay project As a copper foil/tooling project Pop up design/card Shawbti, clay sculptures Egyptian masks

11. Egyptian Sarcophagus designs… Small Designs (12x18) Large designs - Life-size As a slab clay project As a copper foil/tooling project Pop up design/card Shawbti, clay sculptures Egyptian masks

12. Greek Mythology Illustrate the story of: Icarus Medusa Gorgons Cyclops

13. ROMAN ART Roman Coins Calendars Theater Masks Building with Arches Mosaics

14. MIDDLE AGES Stained Glass Windows Illuminated Bookmarks and Books Dragons Knights and Armor Kings and Queens Tapestries

15. Renaissance Perspective Drawings Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions Mona Lisa Michelangelo Drawing Hands, people and clothing Albrecht Durer Animal Drawings and Prints

16. POST RENAISSANCE Dutch Painters Rembrandt Dutch Architecture Baroque Furniture Portraits and Self-Portraits

17. IMPRESSIONISTS Landscape Painting Seascape Painting

18. Time Lines

19. END OF THE YEAR Kings and Queens Cooperative group projects