Lesson Plan Components

Sample Lesson Plan
Instructor Kelly Parker

Title of Lesson:
Grades: e.g. K–2, 3–5
Subjects: e.g. Visual Arts, English—Language Arts, History—Social Science
Time Required: In minutes, hours, or by class period

Featured Artworks/Examples: List the images you will use in the lesson.

Lesson Overview: This should be a short 1–2 sentence description that describes what students do in the lesson, and/or the main goal of the lesson.

Learning Objectives: Students should be able to:
- Finish sentence above with objectives for the lesson that tie into Lesson Steps and content standards.
- There is no limit on the number of Learning Objectives you can have, but more than three or four may indicate a lesson that’s too complicated.
- The Learning Objectives should be MEASURABLE.

Materials:
- List supplies needed for the lesson
- This can include art supplies, books, etc.

Vocabulary: Any new words the students can learn

Art History: A brief paragraph on how the lesson relates back to art

Steps:
1. Steps for the lesson go here.
2. Include prompting questions, for example:
- Look at the colors in this work of art. Which one did you see first? Was color the first thing that you noticed? What else caught your eye?
- Take turns describing the lines and shapes that you see in this work of art. (For example, “I see a thin curving line.”)
- Do you see movement in this work of art or does it seem still? Do the colors, lines, and shapes make it seem that way? How?
- Is there a story in this work of art? How do the colors help to tell this story?
- If you see a story, who or what do you think is the most important figure, shape, or object? What makes you think this?
- Does anything you see happening in this work of art remind you of your life story, or of another story you know?
3. Tie the art-making activity back into the Learning Objectives for the lesson. Try not to tag an unrelated art-making activity at the end of the lesson. Think about how the skills students learn by doing an art activity carry over to the other skills you are teaching in the lesson.
4. Steps

Extensions: Using what the students learned in another way. How will this be used again or in connection with another lesson?

Assessment: Review of objectives (testing), did students learn the objectives? How will you assess/measure student outcomes?

Closure: Wrap up of the class – what happens next?