A Character Education Visual Art Kit
By Kathleen Thompson and Rachel Ross
This unit helps students identify and explore different feelings and emotions, and learn how to respond emphatically and with compassion to someone else’s pain and needs.
Each art reproduction featured in this set engages students’ interests and reinforces a character trait they can relate to their lives. Each activity presented has been field-tested. The Teacher’s Guide is presented in a K-9 format, but equally applicable in school systems with K-12 formats. Ready-to-use activities for each art reproduction include:
- Historical information about the artist and the artwork;
- Discussion topic for each lesson;
- Guided Looking using an easy 4-step process of art critique known as the Feldman Model;
- Activity related to Character Education;
- Detailed studio art projects;
- Assessment;
- Resources for the teacher and students.
The kit includes:
- 5 Fine Art Reproductions 18″ x 22 3/4″ (45.8 cm x 56.5 cm);
- A Teacher’s Guide;
- A plastic storage porfolio.
List of reproductions you will find in your Empathy, Compassion, Kindness kit:
Velázquez, Diego, Las Meninas
Mexican, Figure of an Old Man
Siqueiros, David Alfaro, Echo of a Scream
Picasso, Pablo, Weeping Woman
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster
