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Celebrate Latino heritage in your classroom. Target and the National Museum of Mexican Art bring you lesson plans featuring the Huichol people of Mexico. Through reading, writing and art, students will explore the Huichol views on community and nature. They’ll express their own thoughts through visual personal stories. Finally, your class will create a mural that expresses a community vision. 
Dream In Color Poster Teach With the Poster
Students will explore the use of symbols in art as they learn about the Huichol people of Mexico. A book for class reading presents a Huichol story that is rich in nature-based symbolism, providing opportunities for class discussion. Finally, work on a mural project will further show how art can tell a story and help students understand the meaning of community. Reading, writing, communication skills and the visual arts are all part of this unit that uses National Language Arts Standards 4 and 12.
Dream In Color Poster Teach With the Poster
Through the culture, art and philosophy of the Huichol people of Mexico, students will explore the use of symbols in art and the importance of nature to a community. Class reading and writing activities demonstrate how a story can be told through symbols, providing opportunities for class discussion. Finally, students will create a mural that tells a story, showing how a community can work together to create something beautiful. Reading, writing, communication skills and the visual arts are all part of this unit that uses National Language Arts Standards 4 and 12.
Dream In Color Poster Teach With the Poster
Students will learn about the culture, art and philosophy of the Huichol people of Mexico, exploring the use of symbols in art and the importance of nature to a community. Class reading and writing activities show how symbols can tell a story, providing opportunities for class discussion. Finally, through the creation of a mural, students will tell a story through art, working together as a community while expressing themselves as individuals. Reading, writing, communication skills and the visual arts are integral to this unit that uses National Language Arts Standards 4 and 12.
Dream In Color Poster Teach With the Poster
Students will learn about the culture, art and philosophy of the Huichol people of Mexico, exploring topics on the environment and its importance to the community. Class reading and writing activities address the relationship of symbolism to life and art, providing opportunities for class discussion. The unit concludes with a mural project in which students will work both collectively and individually, using symbolism to tell a story that is important to their community. Reading, writing, communication skills and the visual arts are integral to this unit that uses National Language Arts Standards 4 and 12.
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Related Lesson PlansExplore more resources that help bring Latino heritage to your classroom. Target partnered with the National Museum of Mexican Art in 2008 and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in 2007 to offer these learning activities: |
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