Lesson Description:
Students will be able to…

• Analyze meanings in their work and the work of others.
• Understand the connection between art and other disciplines.
• Recognize the effect of environmental factors on health.
• Interpret historical time line data.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how people’s choices can effect the environment.
• Apply art media, techniques, and processes to create a persuasive poster.

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Lesson Type:

• Project

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Sustainability Topic:

• Gardening
• Other

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GEF Program Category:

• Green Thumb Challenge

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Standards Addressed:
Standards: Students will…

Visual Art Connections Standard 1: Understand connections among the various art forms and other disciplines.

• Benchmark #4: Know how various concepts and principles are used in the arts and disciplines outside the arts (e.g., balance, shape,pattern).

Visual Art Standard 1: Understand and apply media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts.

• Benchmark #2: Know how the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes can be used to enhance communication of experiences and ideas.

Visual Art Standard 5: Understand the characteristics and merits of one's own artwork and the artwork. of others.

• Benchmark #2: Understand possible contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks.
• Benchmark #3: Understand how one’s own artworks, as well as artworks from various eras and cultures, may elicit a variety of responses.

Health Standard 2: Know environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health.

• Benchmark #1: Know cultural beliefs, socioeconomic considerations, and other environmental factors within a community that influence the health of its members (e.g., relationship of values, socioeconomic status, and cultural experiences to the selection of health-care services).
• Benchmark #3: Know local, state, federal, and international efforts to contain an environmental crisis and prevent a recurrence (e.g., acid rain, oil spills, solid waste contamination, nuclear leaks, ozone depletion).

History Standard 1: Understand and know how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns.

• Benchmark #3: Know how to interpret data presented in time lines (e.g., identify the time at which events occurred; the sequence in which events developed; what else was occurring at the time).

History Standard 44: Understand the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world.

• Benchmark #6: Understand the emergence of a global culture (e.g., connections between electronic communications, international marketing, and the rise of a popular "global culture" in the late 20th century; how modern arts have expressed and reflected social transformations, political changes, and how they have been internationalized).

Geography Standard 14: Understand how human actions modify the physical environment.

• Benchmark #1: Understand the environmental consequences of people changing the physical environment (e.g., the effects of ozone depletion, climate change, deforestation, land degradation, soil salinization and acidification, ocean pollution, groundwater-quality decline, using natural wetlands for recreational and housing development).

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Materials Needed:

• "Victory Garden" worksheet provided 
• "What a View" worksheet provided
• "Get the Scoop" worksheet provided
• "Think Green" worksheet provided
• Access to computers
• Relative links:
  • Victory Garden Video
  • Victory Garden Propaganda Posters

• 11x17 inch white paper
• Pencils
• Erasers

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Lesson Documents:
CommunityGarden1.pdf

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Lesson Documents:
CommunityGarden2.pdf

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Lesson Documents:
CommunityGarden3.pdf

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Lesson Documents:
CommunityGarden4.pdf

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Lesson Documents:
CommunityGardensNew.pdf

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