Bayou Bend - Education - Lesson Plans



*Learning History from Objects*
Children in Early America: Dressing Up Children in Early America: Symbols of Achievement
	Lesson Objectives to understand childhood in early American society; to compare aspects of childhood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the experiences of the students to understand that works of art can be primary historical documents to observe a work of art and record its details in sketches and in words to research additional information about the work of art to prepare a written report that interprets the work of art in the context of American history of the period

Choosing a Chair
	Lesson Objectives to observe three chairs and record their details in words and in sketches to understand choices consumers had in the late eighteenth century and the reason for those choices to understand the elements that determined the cost of a chair to design chairs at different price levels and explain the reasons for the differences

Art at Work
	Lesson Objectives to understand how works of art can reveal information about the ways in which people worked in colonial America by closely observing, describing, and interpreting a work of art to understand form and function in the design of American furniture to explore similarities and differences in work from the eighteenth to the twentieth century to work in a team to design a desk-and-storage unit that combines form and function and is appropriate for a modern student to write a diary entry from the point of view of the person who owned a chest of drawers

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