Taking It To the Schools: Community Experiences in Visual Art 

Grade 2:  Self-Portraits: Communicating Personal Interests

Grade 5:  Investigating Places of Personal Significance

Grade 6:  The Dust Bowl

Grade 8:  Arkansas Wildlife in Color

Grade 9-12:  Making a Monument

Template:  Create Your Own Module

These instructional materials were created by a team of Arkansas classroom teachers and teaching artists through a partnership between the Arkansas Department of Education, the Arkansas Arts Council, and Arkansans for the Arts. Many thanks to the team: Angi Cooper, Virmarie DePoyster, Jonathan Kaplan, Sue Anne McCoy, Mary Overton, Shannon Puckett, Kay Thomas . The modules were inspired by the Model Cornerstone Assessments of the National Core Arts Standards.

Arkansas Visual Art Curriculum Frameworks:  http://www.arkansased.gov/divisions/learning-services/curriculum-and-instruction/curriculum-framework-documents/fine-arts-new-courses-valid-july-1-2015

National Core Arts Standards Model Cornerstone Assessments:  www.nationalartsstandards.org

For more information, contact Lana Hallmark, ADE Fine Arts Specialist, lana.hallmark@arkansas.gov