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Lesson Plans

This collection provides access to the collected lesson plans created for various teacher workshops conducted at UMMA since 2003. Each lesson plan provides an outline of the session, its grade level as well as media, images and links to resources that can be used during the lesson.

In addition, this folder contains lessons related to objects in UMMA's permanent collection. They feature many disciplines: studio art, art history, writing, math, science, social studies, and literature and can be adapted to fit your grade level and objectives. 

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John Turner
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March 6, 2017 1:19 a.m.

52 Items in this Learning Collection
Lesson Plan: Asian Epics

Resource with 4 media
Lesson Plan: Ganesha and Vishnu Avatars

Resource with 4 media
Lesson Plan: Calligram

Resource with 3 media
Lesson Plan: Translating a Familiar Landscape
In this scene mountains and a pavillion are covered by snow and dormant trees bear no leaves. Calligraphic text is in the upper right corner.
Resource with 2 media
Lesson Plan: Collaborative Scroll of Images and Poetry
Horizontally oriented. Begins with two large characters then a series of folliage imagery proceeded by calligraphy. Ink on paper, hand scroll.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Community Contracts
Wood-carved, standing male figure 40 inches in height. Its shoulders and torso are impaled with iron blades, nails and fragments. The torso is long, arms at side are bent at elbow and hands rest on lower abdomen. The right wrist wears a bracelet with attachments. The legs are truncated, with twisted metal anklet on right foot. The face is naturalistic, the mouth slightly open, the nose long and narrow with slightly flared nostrils. Eyes are almond shaped, may have had inlay that is now gone. The top of the head shows a tiered, "layer cake like" coiffure. The figure has a long and deep crack down the entire length of its left side, from top of the head to the left ankle.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Drawing and Sculpture
A biomorphically abstract sculpture of bronze. Bulbous at the bottom, the shape stretches and narrows in the middle and then expands into a larger shape from which two rounded points rise.
Resource with 4 media
Lesson Plan: Content and Style – Corresponding or Contradicting?

Resource with 2 media
Lesson Plan: Setting the Scene – Descriptive Writing with Photography

Resource with 2 media
Lesson Plan: Not a Failure . . . Just a Draft
This canvas is saturated in layered paint in shades of muted browns, oranges, ochres, and yellows, and crossed by lines: some dark and some light, some on the surface, some buried beneath the surface color. A bold horizontal line cuts across about a quarter of the way from the bottom. On the right, there are several faint verticals. At the top, two horizontal lines underlap and overlap with two diagonals.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Egungun Mask
A massive wood-carved headdress with stylized face (showing classic Yoruba features) of bulging eyes with defined upper lids, long, straight, triangular nose, symmetrical scarification patterns consisting of three horizontal lines on each cheek, and a short beard from ear to ear just underneath the lower lip. Two large “ears” protrude on either side of head and act as “scaffolding” for numerous attachments of symbolic content: birds and lions predominate, but also visible are amulets, wooden claws and beads, crosses, and an insignia shield of some kind. The ears terminate in two oblong mirrors with lions leaping off of each. Layers of pigment are visible, giving the impression that it has been repainted over time.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Environmental Art
A close-up of mud cracks with varying depths and thickness.
Resource with 3 media
Lesson Plan: Family Dynamics
Six figures appear in a formal garden landscape. On the right a pair of men in powdered wigs stand behind two women, one seated in a wheelchair, before an elaborate portico. A pair of boys, also sporting wigs, stand on the left, partly screened by a fountain. One of the boys holds a shell and the other carries a parrot. A small pool extends through the middle ground behind the figures and draws attention to the setting and the distant obelisk visible above the trees.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Finding Inspiration
This is a drawing for the installation of a terrazzo floor installation at the Mott Children's Hospital in Michigan. It includes notes and comments by the artist.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Image Sequence

Resource with 6 media
Lesson Plan: Calligraphy and Radial Design in Islamic Art

Resource with 2 media
Lesson Plan: Making Paint
The majestic figure of the Virgin with the infant Christ on her lap sits enthroned in the center of this painted panel. Her elaborate throne rests upon a dais and is enclosed on three sides by panels bristling with Gothic ornament. Two bishop saints holding croziers stand at the foot of the dais accompanied by two other saints who stand behind them, while fourteen angels crowd the background.
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Lesson Plan: Road Trip Memory Book

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Lesson Plan: Memory Maps, Using the Mitchell Map (1755)
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Lesson Plan: Multipoint Perspective: Using Art to Teach Writing
The majestic figure of the Virgin with the infant Christ on her lap sits enthroned in the center of this painted panel. Her elaborate throne rests upon a dais and is enclosed on three sides by panels bristling with Gothic ornament. Two bishop saints holding croziers stand at the foot of the dais accompanied by two other saints who stand behind them, while fourteen angels crowd the background.
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Lesson Plan: Murals and Math
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Lesson Plan: The New Sublime and Photographic Landscape

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Lesson Plan: Panorama Handscroll Using Multiple Literacies

Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Photo Voice
This photograph depicts a view of a snowy street at night.  Meandering in opposites directions, a man and woman are walking their dogs.
Resource with 3 media
Lesson Plan: Photographic Genre Image Hunt
A view of steerage passengers gathered on two decks of a steamship. 
Resource with 3 media
Lesson Plan: Photographic “Truth”
Seven soldiers form a single-file line as they crouch in a shallow trench dug into a field.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Photography, Shadow, and Collage
A winding staircase in between floors. Curves from the lower left up into the upper left, almost like a large "J" curve.
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Lesson Plan: Photojournalism
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Lesson Plan: Playing with Scale in Landscape or Still Life
The painting depicts mountains and bold branches covered by snow, presenting a cristal clear landscape of cold splendor.
Resource with 3 media
Lesson Plan: Exploring the Emotional Impact of Portraiture Through Free Writing
A close-up portrait of an older woman with light hair and a knitted striped cap. She is looking ahead and smiling.
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Lesson Plan: Portraiture and Identity
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
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Lesson Plan: Positive and Negative Space in Photography
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
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Lesson Plan: The Science of Seeing Art
M. Bachelier is shown seated at a desk dressed in a high powdered wig and sumptous gold-embroidered velvet coat and waistcoat. Behind the figure is a rich cloth, pulled back to reveal columns. On the elaborately carved desk are papers and a writing set. M. Bachelier extends his left hand towards the viewer, suggesting that we have interepted him while writing at his des. The painting's coloring consists of rich burgundy red, green, tan and gold.
Resource with 3 media
Lesson Plan: Setting Up a Collaborative Short Story
Two orange buildings on snow-covered ground on either side of an unplowed road. 
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Six Room Image Poem
Landscape painting with white mountain peak in center background, body of water in foreground, and a Native American encampment to left.
Resource with 2 media
Lesson Plan: Artists and Social Change
A young boy standing next to a long wall with grafitti with his left hand raised.
Resource with 3 media
Lesson Plan: Symmetry and Islamic Tile

Resource with 4 media
Lesson Plan: Understanding Photographs
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
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Lesson Plan: Visible Thinking

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Lesson Plan: Sketching and Exploring
A woman sits facing the viewer, looking slightly to the right. Her hands are in her lap and she is holding a piece of fabric. The background is undescribed and her skirt is loosely drawn.
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Lesson Plans: Ideas for Writing with Portraits

Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Zen Pinch Pot
This squat bowl is not smooth but has subtle irregularities in texture and shape, intentionally highlighted by the brilliant red glaze.
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Lesson Plan: Zoom In: The Significance of Detail
This remarkable still life depicts a table crowded with, among other things, a gilded covered goblet, a wide saucer-shaped silver tazza, a celestial globe painted with images of the constellations, a skull wearing a laurel wreath, and an extinguished candle, all rendered in exquisite detail with careful attention paid to the effects of light and texture. While the arrangement of objects may appear casual, the composition is artfully balanced along two diagonal axes centered on the two cups that lie crossed on the table. The repetition of ovoid shapes throughout the painting and the monochrome tonality with its restricted range of hues and values, a hallmark of Heda's style, assures the seamless integration of the sundry objects into a unified whole.<br />
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Tyree Guyton Background
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Mindfulness Images and Prompts

Resource with 9 media
Landscapes for Detroit School of Arts
A mountain canyon with a cloudy sky above.
Resource with 32 media
Lesson Plans About Photography

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Last Updated
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8 Items in this Learning Collection
Lesson Plan: Image Sequence

Resource with 6 media
Lesson Plan: Photography, Shadow, and Collage
A winding staircase in between floors. Curves from the lower left up into the upper left, almost like a large "J" curve.
Resource with 2 media
Lesson Plan: Photojournalism
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Lesson Plan: Positive and Negative Space in Photography
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
Resource with 2 media
Lesson Plan: Setting the Scene – Descriptive Writing with Photography

Resource with 2 media
Lesson Plan: Understanding Photographs
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Photographic “Truth”
Seven soldiers form a single-file line as they crouch in a shallow trench dug into a field.
Resource with 1 media
Lesson Plan: Photo Voice
This photograph depicts a view of a snowy street at night.  Meandering in opposites directions, a man and woman are walking their dogs.
Resource with 3 media

Lesson Plan: Photographic “Truth”

“Teaching with Photography,” UMMA Workshop for Educators, November 6, 2013 Lesson developed by Antje Gamble, former Mellon Fellow in History of Art

Objectives

Students will re-write a newspaper article, discovering how images can tell more than one story

National Core Standards

  • Perceive and analyze artistic work

Grade

9-12

Time Required

One class period, or partial class

Materials

  • Paper and Pencils
  • Newspaper articles with accompanying photographs 

Lesson

  1. Divide students into small groups of approx. four students

  2. Students should choose or be assigned an article with an accompanying photograph

  3. Each student should write his/her own new story to accompany the photograph. They can change as much information as they would like. In fact, the more changes they make, the more interesting the discussion will be. Allow enough time for students to draft a new story about the photograph.

  4. Students can share and compare their stories with their group.

  5. Discuss the process with the class:

    a. Was it easy or difficult to alter the story, once you knew the original content?

    b. Television news often uses stock photographs (ex. Generic police tape, an airport, a burning car). Why does this work?

    c. Can one image tell more than one story?

    d. Does a photograph always “tell the truth?” Can there be multiple truths? Can it lie?

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