Multicultural Education Lesson Plan 1
Grade Levels
Second Grade
Time Required
Three 45 minute lessons
Objectives
Art History — familiarization with Native American symbolism and the ancient art of petroglyphs.
Key Terms — Anasazi ruins, Pueblos, Petroglyphs
Design — understanding symbolism
Skills — ability to create designs, border designs, use of tempera paint techniques, tearing, crumbling for aging
effect
Lesson 1 Procedure
1. Each student is passed a piece of dark brown roll paper approximately 36" × 26".
Crumble and unfold. Repeat to look like an aged animal hide.
2. Tear an interesting shape around your hide, but be careful not to tear TOO much off.
3. Take a minute to feed our brains with visual images of Indial symbols, looking through
examples of symbols, and then drawing a variety of symbols on the large "hide" in white
charcoal pencil. Stress creating an edge of border design.
4. Names on back in white pencil.
Lesson 2 Procedure
1. Review paint manners. No tapping on water bucket. To clean, swish, rub, dry, twirl on
paper towel. CLEAN before each new color.
2. Choose 3 colors. Paint some shapes each color. Think about painting a shape on either
end and in the middle a same color. When your eye sees a color repeated in a path, the
painting is more pleasing to look at. Don�t paint the border design. Be careful not to
touch a wet shape.
Lesson 3 Procedure
1. Go back into the designs and outline the painted designs with black marker.
2. Outline the shapes you did not get a chance to paint.
3. Do your border design in black marker.
4. If you have extra time, create some new designs by just drawing them with marker in
areas that are empty.
Lesson Plan 2
Grade Levels
Third Grade
Time Required
Two 45 minute lessons
Objectives
Art History — familiarization with Native American weaving techniques and designs
Key Terms — Pueblo, Navajo, warp, weft, fray, utilitarian, decorative
Design — ability to design a symmetrical weaving pattern
Skills — understanding the concepts of weaving and creating patterns using yarns and burlap
Lesson 1 Procedure
1. Teacher demonstration of pulling strings out of burlap to create areas in which to
weave.
2. Vertical strings in a weaving are called warp strings, and the horizontal strings that
actually DO the weaving are called weft strings. Demonstrate a variety of possibilities.
Wrapping strings, weaving in over and under patterns that could change as colors
change. For instance, weaving over 4 warps, under 4 warps, etc. The next color could
be woven over 2 warps, under 2 warps, etc. Tying strings to bottom that hang, adding
beads, fraying the ends of weaving strings, yarns, or cords.
3. Choose a colored piece of burlap, teacher will glue dowel to top, tape sides of dowel to
table to make working easier. Make name tag and tape to dowel rod.
4. Must use at least 3 techniques that were demonstrated, may also invent other
techniques.
Lesson 2 Procedure
1. Review of techniques.
2. Reminder that each student must use at least 3 techniques as well as inventing others.
3. Finish within this class.