Art 1 · Week 5 · Artist Identity and Studio Habits
Seeing Through Someone Else's Eyes
Pairs describe the same image and compare what each noticed, then discuss how life experience shapes what we see.
- Students will
- Students analyze how experiencing an image affects understanding, describe the same image in detail, and compare how different viewers notice different things.
- SEL skill
- Restate a partner's view before sharing your own
- What it looks like
- Students practice taking another person's perspective by listening to what a partner notices and restating it respectfully.
- Content focus
- Seeing Through Someone Else's Eyes
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness is understanding the perspectives of other people, including those from different backgrounds, and showing empathy. 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:Re7.2.HSI: Visual Arts, Responding, Anchor Standard 7 (Perceive and analyze artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Responding
- Level: High School Proficient
More social awareness activities for Art 1
- 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.
- Murals of the Coachella Valley Social awarenessStudents study murals in Coachella and other valley towns and discuss whose stories they tell and who is honored in public art.
- 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.