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2024 Vol 6: Integrating Aging Education in the PK-12 Curriculum: Combating Ageism through the Classroom

Rembrandt, Vincent Van Gogh, and Eunice Parsons: Age and Art in the Visual Arts Classroom

Teresa Strohl, Visual Art, Knights View Elementary School

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Synopsis: This curriculum unit introduces my art students to Ageism. According to the World Health Organization Ageism is defined as a stereotype (how we think), prejudice (how we feel) and discrimination (how we act) towards others or oneself based on age.1 Having a negative attitude about aging can lead to poor health. Who says that when you get to be 100 years old you can’t do jumping jacks, run, create collages, or catch lobsters? 

As my 4th graders learn about the effects of ageism, they will look at two artists that painted portrait progressions, Rembrandt and Vincent Van Gogh. The third artist my students will look at is Eunice Parsons, a collage artist that started her work at the age of 34 and continues her artistic practice at the age of 108. The 4th graders will draw themselves now and 60 years older with the help of an app. The 4th graders will look at Eunice Parsons and her artistic medium of paper collage. Eunice Parsons was born in 1916, making her 108 in 2024 and creates paper collages every day. My 4th grade students will create a collage like Eunice Parsons’ work. Later my students will partner up with a high school student to create a collage about their own futures. As a cumulative project, the 4th graders will create visual memoirs using a software called book creator to add their collages and self-portrait progressions along with artist statements about their work. Creating visual memoirs through writing and art will establish a strong foundation for students to understand the creative process and to express their views on aging. 

2019 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Childhood and the City Space in Literature

Art and Identity: Communities, Neighborhoods and Self

Natalie Jones, Visual Art, West Charlotte High

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2017 Curriculum Units Vol 8: From Self to Students: Canvassing Art to Explore Identity

Art and Identity: Using Visual Art as a Means of Nonverbal Communication

Natalie Jones, Visual Art, West Charlotte HS

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2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Square One: Establishing Visual Literacy in the Classroom

Justin Pierce, Visual Art, W.A. Hough HS

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2017 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Memorials, Memories, and American Identity

You Must Remember This: Monumental Biographical Studies and Crafting Multimodal Autobiographies

Lecia Shockley, Third Grade, Selwyn ES

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2015 Vol 8: Supernatural Figures in Theatre, Film and the Brain

Collaging the Subconscious and Painting the Revealed Surreal: Uncensoring the Inner Theatre through Right Hemisphere Activities

Noelle Peerey, Visual Art, Hopewell High School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

A Life in Images

Mary Catherine Grant, Third Grade, David Cox Road Elementary School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Metamorphosis: Transformative Experiences

Creative Change and Metamorphosis in Visual Arts: The Altered Book/Journal

Maebeth Hill, Visual Art, North Mecklenburg High School

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Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

Growing Seeds of American Dreams: Art and literature as an expression of identity for Latino-American youth

Ambrosia Wilson, Spanish, Marie G. Davis Academy

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

Crafting Urban Stories Through Mixed Media

Gloria Brinkman, Visual Arts, North Mecklenburg High School

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