Do you have a visual or kinesthetic learner?

You get 10 online Zoom lessons from Sharon Jeffus with corresponding books including, Teaching Math through Art, Teaching Literature through Art, Teaching Astronomy through Art, and Teaching American History through Art (details below).

Each online lesson has master artwork included, and core subject facts reinforced with hands on art works. This is appropriate for grades 3-12. Email me at visualmanna@gmail.com for more information.

Package Details:

Teaching Math through Art

1) M.C. Escher: We will learn how to do tessellations, and create a picture with different worlds.

2) Leonardo da Vinci: We will learn about fractions by understanding the classic Greek proportions of the face, the golden mean, and do a portrait and a tryptche.

Teaching Literature through Art

1) Gustave Dore: We will learn and contrast a fable with an epic and look at illustrations from several famous ones. Then we will create an illustration for an epic and a fable.

2) George Catlin: We will talk about several famous journals and what is a journal. We will look at Catlin’s journal and do pictures inspired by Catlin’s Indian art and journals.

3) Michaelangelo: We will look at sonnets in literature and read Michelangelo’s sonnet on painting the Sistine Chapel. We will create a fresco.

Teaching Astronomy through Art

1) We will learn how to create the earth using paints and pastels. We will talk about the photograph “The Blue Marble” and the parts of earth in science, and illustrate earth’s place in the solar system.

2) We will talk about comets in space and do a replica of VanGogh’s “A Starry Night.”

Teaching American History through Art

1) We will learn about the history of the flag and make a Gladstone Flag and a creative American flag picture with an eagle.

2) We will talk about Audubon and the story of how the eagle became the American symbol.

3) We will talk about the famous early American landscape artists and learn how to make a beautiful landscape using atmospheric perspective at the time of Lewis and Clark.