Abstract:
This thesis consists of a three-week unit plan on the Impressionist movement and the art of painting and a follow up journal, reflecting on the difficulties and successes acquired while teaching the unit. The unit plan was developed using a discipline-based-art-education philosophy, demonstrating the importance of teaching aesthetics, art criticism, and art history, as well as art production. The reflective journal, included at the end of the unit plan, explores those areas the unit plan that seemed truly beneficial to the students those areas of the unit plan that could somehow be improved if using the same plan in the future.