Visual Studies Lesson Plan
Name: Melissa Burger Grade Level: 9-12
Content Standard: Animal Testing
Texas Essential Knowledge Skills (TEKS):
Objectives: Get students to analyze the harms and dangers of animal testing. Is it fair that we can not experiment on humans without their consent but we can experiment on animals without their consent?
Introduction:
Vocabulary: Animal cruelty: Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse or animal neglect, is the human infliction of suffering or harm upon non-human animals, for purposes other than self-defense or survival. More narrowly, it can be harm for specific gain, such as killing animals for food or for their fur, although opinions differ with respect to the method of slaughter
Historic Artists Used: Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Picasso, Andy Warhol
Historical Art Used: "Frida Kahlos self portrait with monkeys." "dachshund print."
Contemporary Artists Used: Ai Weiwei
Websites: http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/16-brilliant-artists-and-their-animal-muses
Materials Used:
-Canvas Paper/canvas.
-acrylic paint
- paintbrushes
- water (soup) cans
-paper towels
Activity/Procedure: Students will think about an animal or pet that has touched them. Students will paint their animal/pet of choice and talk about why this animal is sentimental to them during critic.
Assessments (objective or subjective):
1) Student will be ask what pets/animals are sentimental to them. How did you feel while you spent time with your pet? How did you feel when your pet was excited to see you?
2) How would you feel if an animal you cared about was being tested on?
3) Do you think we should be able to test on animals when they cannot speak for themselves?
4) Once students begin their paintings they can decide to they want to incorporate some time of mixed media into their paintings to make it more sentimental to their animal/pet.
For the Teacher
3.
Budget for Animal testing
100 students
Grade: 9-12
Item
|
Cost
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Quantity
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Total
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Canvas Paper
|
$22.00
|
5
|
$110.00
|
Paintbrushes
| $10.00 | 10 | $100.00 |
| Acrylic Paint |
42.00
|
1
|
$42.00
|
Tin cans for water
|
$0.50
|
100
|
$50.00
|
Paper towels
|
$1.00
|
1
|
$1.00
|
Total for Entire Lesson
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$300.00
|
First, I love your painting. You could use Bansky. The video that Emily pulled up in class with the crying stuffed animals is definitely a performance piece about this topic. We also have a children's book on this topic. I will try to remember to find it for you on Monday.
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