How to Teach Art History to Elementary Students
Teaching art history to elementary students can be fun and very informative as well. As art is considered one of the best ways to express your inner feelings, you can also pass through this fine expression and its history to elementary students. Not only just art history, you can make any subject interesting to teach but art history especially has a clear advantage and room to make the study more fun via different projects including movies, historical tours, stories and different classroom assignment. If you want to teach art history to elementary students then follow this guide.
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Search different art books
Searching different art books from various libraries about art history is a very good idea. It will also give you great help to learn about art history itself. Select books that are more appropriate for elementary students. If you have prepared a list of artists and famous paintings, select books accordingly. You can find many books related to great artists quite easily at any decent library or bookstore. -
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Shared reading exercise
Shared reading exercises will give confidence to children regarding sharing their views on any specific artist or painting. Give your students different assignment as class work so that you can also observe how much interest they are taking in art history. Give them different assignments as home work as well. You can also ask children about their favorite artists and paintings. Ask them about to write their favorite artists’ names as well. You will see a positive response from elementary school kids when you ask for their participation, especially when it comes to art. -
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Teaching art history with skill
You can teach art history with more skills. Always ask questions and take questions from children as well. Always give students a broader picture of the world. Make sure that you do not over do it and provide too much information that it ends up confusing the kids. Just keep it to a few main artists and describe some critical times during art history. You want the kids to have fun learning and not make it a chore that they will dislike. -
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Art history timeline
Create an art history timeline. It will give help to children to learn about art in different eras. You can give your students an assignment as well that each of them needs to create an art history timeline. It will certainly enhance their knowledge as well regarding art history and the historical event took place in different eras. This is a fun and basic activity that will get the kids more involved with art history and take a general interest in this field. -
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Creating art history into a game
Create an art history into a game as it will excite students to play. Create different questions about different famous artists and paintings and style of different arts. You can also have simple prizes and games that revolve around art and various artists as well. Kids will love to participate and have a good time while also learning in the process. -
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Study tours
Study tours will also help you to teach art history to elementary students. Visit different museums and historical places will certainly help your students to learn about art history. Kids always enjoy a nice field trip. Go to a big museum and spend the day there discussing the different art on display there.
