Art 1 · Week 25 · Art in Our Community
Murals of the Coachella Valley
Students study murals in Coachella and other valley towns and discuss whose stories they tell and who is honored in public art.
- Students will
- Students describe how culture, tradition, and history shape their response to a valley mural and name whose stories it tells and whose are missing.
- SEL skill
- Imagine how a neighbor feels about a mural and say it respectfully
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by taking the perspective of a community member who walks past the mural every day.
- Content focus
- Murals of the Coachella Valley and whose stories walls tell
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how other people see things and caring about them, including people whose backgrounds differ from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- VA:Cn11.1.HSI: Visual Arts, Connecting, Anchor Standard 11 (Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Connecting
- Level: High School Proficient
More social awareness activities for Art 1
- Seeing Through Someone Else's Eyes Social awarenessPairs describe the same image and compare what each noticed, then discuss how life experience shapes what we see.
- Space Between Us Social awarenessExploring positive and negative space, students connect the space around shapes to the personal space people need from one another.
- Art That Remembers Social awarenessStudents study how cultures use art to honor those who have died and listen respectfully to classmates' views of the traditions studied.
- Artists Who Look Like Us Social awarenessStudents explore an exhibit of California artists from many backgrounds and describe how it shifts their beliefs about who becomes an artist.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.