Upper Elementary Implementation Timeline

If you are interested in using Art Making and Meaning as your primary curriculum resource, you might focus on two-dimensional art for an extended series of classes, perhaps an entire semester, followed by a second extended series of classes focused on three-dimensional media reviewing and reinforcing the same questions introduced with two-dimensional media.  The following sixteen classes can be fleshed out to constitute an entire year’s curriculum if students meet once a week.

First Semester

• The Human Touch: Explanation and Anne Coe segment
• All Things Visible: Explanation and Anne Coe segment (skip the section on “visual texture” then continue to the end of the Coe segment)
• People, Places, and Things: Explanation and Anne Coe segment
• The Days of Our Lives: Explanation and Anne Coe segment
• The World Around Us: Explanation and Anne Coe segment
• What Does it Do?: Explanation and Anne Coe segment
• Cultures Here and Now / There and Then: Explanation and Anne Coe segment
• What the Artist Wants to Do: Explanation and Anne Coe segment

Second Semester

• The Human Touch: Explanation (review) and Michael Brolly segment
• More to See and Touch: Explanation and Michael Brolly segment (skip the section after the analysis of Brolly’s cradle to avoid the suggestive remaining artworks)
• People, Places, and Things: Explanation (review) and Michael Brolly segment
• The Days of Our Lives: Explanation (review) and Michael Brolly segment
• The World Around Us: Explanation (review) and Michael Brolly segment

• What Does it Do?: Explanation (review) and Michael Brolly segment (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 (review) and Michael Brolly segment
• What the Artist Wants to Do: Explanation (review) and Michael Brolly segment (because some sections are quite challenging, preview and introduce with care at the elementary level)