Art and Nutrition
Emphasize nutrition for children while also introducing art concepts which are important for art history appreciation.
Resources
- 12×18” drawing paper
- Pencils, color pencils
- Food Pyramid Chart
- Food Label Examples
- Fruits and Vegetables for Still Life
- FIZZY’S LUNCH LAB | Lunch Lab Live: Food Pyramid
- Food Groups Are Rockin’ Tonight
- Jan Davidszoon de Heem, Dutch Still Life Tradition
- Paul Cezanne, Father of Impressionism
- Ralph Goings, 20th Century Photo-Realist Painter
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Renaissance, Fanciful Realism
- Carl Warner, Contemporary, Foodscape Photographs
Fine Art Standards
Students are introduced to the basic concepts of a still life based on principles of design and examples from art history.
Integrated Standards
Students are introduced to the importance of good nutrition as part of health sciences, including an introduction to the food pyramid. (Salt Lake City School District Healthy Lifestyles and Physical Education Standard)
Objectives
Along with the fine art and content standards listed above, the language arts objectives include:
- Through videos and charts, students are exposed to vocabulary with regard to nutrition, healthy lifestyles and some art terms,
- Through paired discussions, students learn the names of our still life fruits and vegetables in other languages from their peers, and
- Students “frame” their drawn still life by writing a few sentences with regard to their still life, art knowledge and food. Students are encouraged to write in either English or their first language if they are EL students.