VAPA: Visual Arts Resources
The visual and performing arts (VAPA) are a great source of teaching students certain skills and ways of thinking that will serve them in all other areas of their education throughout their lifetime. Students need to be exposed to the arts because it is such a rich source of both American and domestic cultures. It provides lessons that cannot be taught in any other way. The VAPA are broken up into four separate categories: visual arts, dance, music, and theater. The focus of this website will be placed on music and the visual arts. In order to teach these contents in an effective manner one should find access to the VAPA Frameworks that are available online at the following website: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/vpaframewrk.pdf. It is important to access this framework before beginning the planning phase of the VAPA because it provides all of the standards and effective suggestions in how these standards should be taught, but it also is broad enough so that a teacher does not feel that they are limited in how they can teach the material. Have fun teaching the VAPA and use it as a tool to teach your students lessons that will effect them for the rest of their lives.
Lesson Plan Websites
http://www.dickblick.com/lesson-plans/discipline/art-history/
http://www.arteducators.org/learning/lesson-planning
http://www.uwosh.edu/library/emc/lesson-plans/art
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/arts/history/
http://voices.yahoo.com/the-10-best-lesson-plan-websites-art-teachers-11728222.html?cat=4
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans
http://www.phschool.com/advanced/lesson_plans/art_stokstad_1999/
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/art-history
http://www.arteducators.org/learning/lesson-planning
http://www.uwosh.edu/library/emc/lesson-plans/art
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/arts/history/
http://voices.yahoo.com/the-10-best-lesson-plan-websites-art-teachers-11728222.html?cat=4
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans
http://www.phschool.com/advanced/lesson_plans/art_stokstad_1999/
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/art-history
Images of famous historical U.S. Art
These images are just the tip of the iceberg that are available. They can be used as discussion peices, models, assignment enrichment tools, etc.