Multi-Year Elementary Implementation Timeline

If you teach art across several elementary grades, you may wish to use Art Making and Meaning as a continuing thread throughout a multi-year program. 

Earlier Grades

• People, Places, and Things: Anne Coe and Michael Brolly segments
• The World Around Us: Anne Coe and Michael Brolly segments
• The Days of Our Lives: Anne Coe and Michael Brolly segments

Later Grades

• The Human Touch: Explanation plus Anne Coe and Michael Brolly segments
• All Things Visible: Explanation plus Anne Coe (skip the “visual texture”, then continue to the end of the Coe segment) and Michael Brolly segments
• More to See and Touch: Explanation plus Anne Coe and Michael Brolly segments (skip the section after the analysis of Brolly’s cradle to avoid the suggestive remaining artworks)
• What Does it Do?: Explanation plus Anne Coe and Michael Brolly segments (skip the first section of the Brolly segment and begin with the analysis of the office to avoid the suggestive first artwork)
• Cultures Here and Now / There and Then: Explanation plus Anne Coe and Michael Brolly segments
• What the Artist Wants to Do: Explanation plus Anne Coe and Michael Brolly segments (because some sections are quite challenging, preview and introduce with care at the elementary level