Abstract:
In a three and one half week unit plan, entitled The Museum, the students of Mr. Purtlebaugh's fourth-grade class at Mitchell Elementary School studied art lessons integrated with their daily subjects. The culminating project for this unit was to create a classroom museum and display it for the community's enjoyment. In this project, the students were assigned to a specific group, in which they were responsible for researching and presenting a different aspect of the museum. The students either worked in the mathematical gallery in painted butterflies or tessellations, in the historic gallery in Native American clothing or cave art, in the landscape gallery in photography or the mural, or on the publicity committee. In order to explain this project, I have included a brief description of the event, ten detailed lesson plans taught during the unit, a pictorial look at the museum and model pieces of artwork that I created, and additional resources and activities used during the unit.
