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The Animal In Me Arts Integration Lesson Plan - Sun Valley Museum of Art

Students will make a personal connection to an aspect of Native American culture, totem poles, and totem animals by researching how native cultures incorporate animals into their art and culture in a variety of ways and creating an individual mask representing personal character traits. Students will then choose an animal based on strengths they identify within themselves.

Objectives:

  • Students will identify an animal that they identify with based on their personal character traits
  • Students will use texture, color, shape, and form in their animal mask
  • Students will reference Native American use of symbolism, color, and shape in creating their mask
  • Students will write and present a brief monologue to build confidence through public presentation

Basic Lesson Outline:

  • Project introduction (slide show)
  • Students will identify character traits and an animal
  • Students will be shown examples of how to create form in their masks
  • Students will work on their mask
  • Students will work to complete their masks; if time allows, they will work on their monologues
  • Project conclusion and presentation

Art Supplies:

  • Plastic mask forms
  • Construction paper
  • Paint brushes
  • Photographs of animals (calendars are a great resource)

Other Resources:

  • Examples of mask-making techniques
  • Slide show to introduce project and related artwork (see outline at the end of the lesson plan)

The Animal In Me Art Integration Lesson Plan - Sun Valley Museum of Art

Idaho State Learning Standards:

Arts and Humanities: Anchor Standard 4 : Convey meaning through the presentation/performance/production of an original work or unique interpretation of a work

  • Objective PR1.1 Combine knowledge and understanding from two or more disciplines to present/perform their original or interpreted works for an audience
  • Objective PR1.2 Convey meaning through their presentation/performance

6-9.GWH.5.1.1 Discuss how social institutions, including family, religion, and education, influence behavior in different societies in the Western Hemisphere

Academic Language:

  • Subject area language: totem pole, Native American, spirit animal, ritual, and representation
  • Art language: form, color, texture, shape, line, symbolism, balance, line, adaptation, and innovation

Student Use of Vocabulary:

Students will use the words when creating their projects, when writing about their projects, and creating and presenting their monologues

Student Grouping:

Students will work independently

Day 1 – Introduction

Introduce the slide show

The slide show should be interactive, prompting questions and discussions

Some of the questions the teacher can ask are:

  • What do you see?
  • Why do you think the artists did that?
  • How do you think the artist did that?

Introduce the project, going over the project goals with the class

If time remains, students can begin researching and brainstorming

Day 2 – Artmaking

Students will use resources provided and research an animal that corresponds to individual character traits

  • Provide examples of character traits or personal strengths
  • Students should list their own strengths and find animals that symbolically correspond

Students brainstorm ideas for their mask

Day 3 – Artmaking

Demonstrate different techniques they can use to decorate and form their masks

Students will be given the remainder of class to work on their spirit animals

  • Encourage them to consider traditional uses of color, shape, and line
  • Encourage them to be mindful of form and texture as well

Day 4 – Artmaking

Remind students of artistic considerations, including texture, shape, balance, color, and form

Students may also want to think about their strengths and how they can use color and form to communicate them in their design

Students will spend class working on their masks

Day 5 – Artmaking

The students will work on and complete their masks

If they finish their masks, they will use their time to write and prepare their monologues

Day 6 – Presentations

Students should take turns presenting their work to the class

In their presentations students should talk about

  • The animal they chose
  • What traits the animal poses
  • How those traits relate to themselves

Slide examples:

Our goal for this project is to facilitate the opportunity for students to identify their strengths and explore them through the metaphor of an animal. Additionally, teachers may want to implement a cultural element to promote cross-cultural exploration and connection.

We incorporated a cultural element by connecting the project to Native American tribes in Northwestern Canada.

  • We used the second slide to show examples of how the different tribes used different artistic elements in their mask and totem making.

Techniques and Colors usage: we focused on techniques of form and color in how they functioned to communicate certain symbolic and cultural meanings through the masks . 

  • We went through different colors and their symbolic meanings.
  • We also showed how different stylistic techniques are used.
  • We showed how these differed from tribe to tribe.
  • We also noted that students could connect their own personal meanings to colors.

A sequence of different examples of animal masks were then shown and students were asked to identify colors, techniques, and textures used.

Uses of Masks: go over how masks were used and their purpose within a cultural framework.

Choosing your spirit animal: Provide questions to encourage students in their consideration and identification of strengths.

  • What are my strengths?
  • What are some words that describe me?
  • What do I like to do? What do I do a lot? What character traits do I poses?
  • Have you ever been drawn to a particular animal or creature?
  • Does a certain animal appear a lot in your life?
  • Have you ever had a recurring dream in which a specific animal often appears?

Thinking about Strengths: students will get out a blank piece of paper and record their strengths, things that are important to them, and describe their personality.

  • We chose to put our masks together in a totem pole-the next slide refer to that.

Creating a totem pole: Go over the why, who, and how.

  • We asked students to present a monologue.

The monologue and presentation: go over what a monologue is and what the expectations are for presenting.

Reiterate Goals

Resources: Provide access to examples or artwork and ideas.

  • Introduce your spirit animal
  • Tell us which tribe or region it comes from in Canada
  • Explain what traits it represents and how these relate to you

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The story, Wolf Island by Celia Godkin, is perfect for teaching the topic of, “Their environment and how to care for it”, mentioned in the list of social studies topics .

It’s a tale about a family of wolves that leave their island home. Before the wolves leave, the island is a healthy environment for all the animals living there.

After the wolves leave, the delicate balance of the food chain is altered and the story demonstrates the consequences.

This book is based on a true story, is beautifully illustrated and introduces young children to the dependence of animals to one other.

Without predators, the deer population grows and they eat so many plants that the mice and rabbits suffer and have fewer babies.

This means less food for owls and foxes. When the deer return, the natural balance is restored. Take about two weeks for the five activities below, adding one or two concepts at a time.

Wolf Island Activities

Teach social studies with Wolf Island

1. Make a large map of the island

  • After reading the story a few times,  have the children ask questions and talk about the illustrations
  • Point out the illustrations that show a big portion of the island
  • The teacher makes a big chart outline drawing of the main land and island and shows the parts to the children
  • Children draw and color the water, draw trees, rocks, and caves directly on the map (it doesn’t have to look the same as the book!)
  • Have children draw, color and cut out the animals in the story and glue them onto the map

View posters showing geographical terms and post them in learning centers for students to look at and provide map puzzles for children to assemble, map sticker activity sets, and other social studies toys.

2. Introduce Food Chains

Social studies Food Chain

When teaching early childhood social studies concepts, be sure to keep experiences concrete. Don’t assume that children have had previous experiences with chains or the terms links or   food chain .

  • Help children understand the terminology – talk about what a chain is, show them what a link looks like and how each link is connected to the next link (put it in the science center for children to touch)
  • Have the kids draw pictures of what each animal on the chart eats
  • Children tape their drawings near the picture of the animal that eats it
  • Introduce the idea of a food chain and that each animal is linked  to another because it provides food for another animal
  • Talk about what happened on Wolf Island when the wolves left
  • environment, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, predator, prey
  • Social studies extension – Show pictures of other environments like a desert or jungle. How are they different from Wolf Island? the same?

3. Keep kindergarten and early childhood social studies concepts simple:

  • A food chain follows a single path as the animals eat each other.
  • The grass is eaten by a grasshopper.
  • The grasshopper is eaten by a frog.
  • The frog is eaten by a snake.
  • The snake is eaten by a hawk.
  • They show how animals and plants are interconnected.
  • Trees produce pinecone seeds that are eaten by mice and squirrels.
  • Insects in the  pinecones are eaten by birds.
  • Hawks and owls can find food as there are lots of birds and small animals to eat.
  • The animals and plants are interconnected by different paths.
  • The sun is introduced as a source of energy.

4. Compare and contrast a wolf with the familiar…

hands on social studies

  • Arrange a policeman with a police dog (German Shepard) to visit the school to talk about stranger safety
  • Prompt the children to ask about the dog’s needs
  • If permitted, take a paw print of the dog’s foot with paint or press it into Playdoh™.
  • Compare the dog foot print with a life size picture of a wolf footprint.
  • After the dog leaves, discuss how a wolf is similar or different to the police dog
  • Similarities/differences suggestions: appearance, needs – water, sleep, shelter, food

5. Math –  Graph “My favorite book”

  • Graph all wolf and fox stories mentioned by placing the actual books on a graphing map and have children place a block on the row to signify their favorite story
  • Count and record how many children liked each book
  • Use terms such as more children liked and fewer children liked…
  • Read more about kindergarten graphing …

Connect kindergarten and early childhood social studies to literature to enrich social studies and other concepts.

Sample Social Studies books:

Peter Spier’s “ People ” to teach about world cultures

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Many books by Ted Lewin ,

Lewin’s books, such as Market, are now out of print but available second hand. Market explores marketplaces all over the world and explores ethnic diversity.How Much? – Visiting Markets Around the World explores marketplaces on four continents.

One Green Apple

This book shows children what it must be like to feel different and alone.

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Joan Sweeney’s, ” Me on the Map” , to teach mapping skills

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Celia Godkin’s, “Wolf Island” to teach about the environment and how to care for it.

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#1481. Fun At the Farm

Fun at the Farm Farm Activities 1. Practicing milking a cow. Fill a rubber glove with milk and poke a small hole in the end of each finger. Have the children milk the "udders" into a bucket. 2.Make butter! Place some heavy cream in a baby food jar. Have the kids shake the jar. If desired, mix in a pinch of salt and a few drops of yellow food coloring. Spread the butter on crackers for kids to taste. If you insert a clean marble into the jar, it will not need to be shaken as long. 3. Play farm animal charades. Each child can act like a certain farm animal and the others can guess. 4.Make a venn diagram about farming long ago and today. 5. Make a class farm animal counting book. 6. Make game cards with mother and baby animals, let the kids match them or play concentration. 7. Make a farm mobile each child can cut out a barn as the center of the mobile and hang the farm animals from it. 8. For a class graph, have each child choose their favorite farm animal to color in and add to the graph. 9. Make a class mural of a farm, be sure to include speech bubbles for all the sounds the animals make. 10. Put out farm animal counters let children sort them by animal type, color etc. 11. If you have a drama center in your classroom have farm animal puppets available. Also have a stool for cow milking, straw hats, rubber boots, etc. 12. Have children record themselves making farm, animal noises. Or Write a class story with animal sounds, then record the story and the children can add the animal sound effects as you record! 13.You can put a bushel of hay in your reading corner along with your favorite farm books. 14. Laminate seed packets (take the seeds out!) and put velcro on the back. ON a large poster put the words in my garden I will plant, _______ and _____. The children can choose the seed packets to "plant". They can draw a picture of they what they planted. 15.Have children plant the left over seeds and keep a seed journal. 16. Have children make a farm map, make sure to have room for all the animals. 17. Purchase some farm-related rubber stamps. I have a Stamp a Story center in my room. When we are studying farms the children use the stamps to make the picture and then write the story. Group Activity: Share the following information about cows. oCows are female cattle. Males are called bulls and babies are called calves. oCows provide milk, which is the source of daily products, including cheese, butter, and yogurt. oThe organ on a cow that holds her milk is called an udder or a bag. oThere are many varieties of cattle. Transition: Have the kids moo like cows as they move to the next activity. Art: Ahead of time, cut sponges into chunks. Clip each chunk into a spring-type clothespin. Pour Black paint into shallow dishes. Paint cow spots on large sheets of paper. Dramatic play: Ahead of time, make a pinhole in each fingertip of a latex glove. Outside, hang a clothesline about three feet above the ground. Clip the prepared glove to the clothesline with a spring-type clothespin. Place a pail below the glove and a low stool or chair beside it. To help the kids understand more about cows, milk a glove! Fill the prepared glove with water. Let the kids take turns squeezing the fingertips of the glove as if milking, so that the water goes into the bucket. Science & Cooking: Make butter! Place some heavy cream in a baby food jar. Have the kids shake the jar. If desired, mix in a pinch of salt and a few drops of yellow food coloring. Spread the butter on crackers for kids to taste. If you insert a clean marble into the jar, it will not need to be shaken as long. Make butter in film canisters. Write books that give each animal name, and make corn husk dolls. We draw and write about our own balloon farm and make scarecrow glyphs that relay info on our pets, milk likes/dislikes, and gardens. Here are the goodies I have collected from different online groups and stars. Here is a pig idea...it is a movement idea using the song Hokey-Pokey. Have students stand in a circle and follow your lead. Bulletin Boards: During the unit we also do two bulletin boards as a class. The students help me collect used packages of farm products; such as, butter wrapper, package the bacon came in, egg carton, etc. I have farm animals on the board and the kids attach the products to the board and yarn is connected to the animal and the product it gives. I also put up a stuffed scarecrow and do a board titled "The Cream of the Crop". Writing Activity: Ears of corns on stalks can be spread apart with writing paper inside. The kids write one thing that is special about them selves on the paper. We design our own scarecrows during this unit. We also make butter using heavy cream. We shake the cream in used, but clean, baby jars. We put the butter on crackers. Video: There is also a great video about farming called A Trip to the Farm. It is very informational, but presented at a level that first graders grasp and enjoy. Science: We also learn how to plant seeds and how to take care of them. This is a good time to read The Carrot Seed and teach sequencing. I also have several file folder games that I use during this unit. Animal - mother and baby match. A Math game where kids have to add correctly to get to the silo...etc. Social Studies Activities: I also have a barn that I made out of a refrigerator box. Making atop for it was not fun, but the kids love it. They like to take turns and read books in the barn. We also sing farm songs that are sung to the tune of other songs. Example : ( Sing to the tune of "The wheels on the bus....." The cow in the barn goes moo, moo, moo . I think I got these songs out of a book called Terrific Topics - Farm by Carson - Dellosa Pub. Co.Well, hope this helps. Also on the farm, one of our teachers put up this darling b.board. There is brown paper at the bottom for the dirt, then blue for the sky with a farm I think. Anyway, she rolled long tubes of brown paper, the width of the board, and taped them to the brown paper in rows going across. She used real seed packets but you could make them, and put the children's names on the seed packets, glued them to tongue depressors and stuck them behind the rolls of paper, like they had been placed in rows of the garden. I hope I'm describing this well enough. It was really cute. The three-dimensional effect was great. She titled it "Watch us grow in first grade". You could put farm words, or animals or anything else on the sticks and plant them in your garden b.board. With our farm lesson last week we started talking about different kinds of farms. We talked about the dairy farm first. We read the Milkmakers (Gail Gibbons), tried milking a cow with the rubber glove with water in. Books about Farms: A Farm by Aurelius Battaglia A House Is A House For Me-Mary Hoberman A Visit to a Farm by Coby Hol Baby Farm Animals -Garth Williams Baby's Animals On The Farm-Rebecca Heller Barn Dance-Bill Martin Jr. Barnyard Banter - Fleming Barnyard Banter by DeniseFleming Barnyard Lullaby by Frank Asch Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown Cat and Dog-Else Minarik Chicken Little-Sally Hobson Chickens Aren't The Only Ones-Ruth Heller Cock-a-doodle Doo-Steve Lavis Color Farm by Lois Elhert Cows Can't Fly by David Milgrim Duffy On The Farm-Marilyn Elson Farm Noises by Jane Miller Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell Find the Duck-S. Cartwright Find the Kittens-S. Cartwright Go, Dog, Go-P.D. Eastman Good Morning, Chick-Mirra Ginsburg Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm- Jerdine Nolen Henny Penny - Galdone How Puppies Grow-M.E. Selsam If You Give A Mouse a Cookie-Laura Numerof It's Pumpkin Time - Hall Little Quack-Ruth Woods Look! Look! Look!-Tana Hoban Moo, Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood Mouse Count-Ellen Walsh Mouse Paint-Ellen Walsh My Barn by Craig Brown My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes-Eve Old MacDonald Had A Farm-Carole Jones Old MacDonald Had A Farm-Pam Adams On the Farm -Richard Scarry Pig, Horse, or Cow Don't Wake Me Now- Arlene Alda Rooster's Off To See The World-Eric Carle Rosie's Walk - PatHutchins Seasons On the Farm ABC Adventures-Pat Whitehead Sheep In A Jeep-Nancy Shaw Sheep, Sheep, Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep- Arlene Alda Six Little Ducks-Chris Conover The Animals of Farmer Jones - Leah Gale The Cat In the Hat-Dr. Suess The Cow That Went OINK!-Bernard Most The Cow Went Over The Mountian-J. Krinsley The Day the Goose Got Loose - Lindbergh The Farm Book-Jon Pfloog The Farmer in the Dell - Rae The Farmer In The Soup-Freyah Littledale The Little Red Hen-Byron Barton Three Billy Goats Gruff-Macmillan Early Skills Prog Time for Bed - Mem Fox Tingalayo-Kate Duke Where is Clifford?-Norman Bridwell Who Lives On The Farm-Lisa Bonforte Teacher Resources Cheryl Walsh Bellville- Farming Today Egyptian Farmers- Jim Kerr Farm Noises -Jane Miller Farming- Dennis B Fradin Farming -Gail Gibbons Farming- Jacqueline Dineen Farming- Sylvia Parkhurst Food and Farming - Nigel Hawks Food and Farming- John Becklake Machines on the Farm- Hope Irwin Marston The Farmer through History - Peter Chrisp Tractors -Graham Richard Yesterday's Way- Carol Rhoda Farm Songs and Poetry Here Is The Barn (fingerplay) Here is the barn (Form a roof shape with your hands) Where I like to go (Walk in place) It's as tall as a tree (Point up overhead) And cozy, you know (Hug body with arms) Here is the barn, (Make a roof shape with your hands) I'll go there with you (Walk in place) To pet a sweet lamb (Pretend to pet a lamb) And cuddle it, too! (Pretend to hug a lamb) A Horse A horse can trot. A horse can run. A horseback ride is lots of fun! Goats Nanny goat, billy goat. What do you say? "Maa, maa", Silly goats, Run away! The Cow The cow is big. The cow says "moo". The cow makes milk for me and you. Pigs Pigs can oink, pigs can snort. Pigs are fat and kind of short. Sheep Sheep are quiet. Sheep are cute. Sheep give wool to make a suit. Geese Geese can honk. Geese can squawk. Geese can fly or take a walk! Old Rooster Old Rooster woke up just so he could say, "How do you cock-a-doodle do today?" The Farm The farm has a cow and a horse and a pig. And a sheep and a goat and a barn so big! You put your right hoof in; You put your right hoof out; You put your right hoof in and you shake it all about. You do the Higgy-Piggy, And you turn yourself around, That's what it's all about! Oink! Continue the song and dance routine with the following verses: You put your Left hoof in.... You put your right hamhock (hip) in... You put your left hamhock in.... You put your snout in.... You put your curly tail in... I have done some activities in connection with farm and scarecrows with the poem/song "Ten Crows All Shiny Black" It goes to the tune used with "Ten Green and Speckled Frogs" Ten crows all shiny black, Sat on a scarecrows back, Eating some most delicious corn. Caw, Caw! Scarecrow jumped and hollered Boo! Scared one crow, away he flew, Now there are nine black shiny crows. Caw, Caw! FIVE FRIENDLY FARMERS Wake up with the sun, For it is early morning And the chores must be done. (stretch and yawn) The first friendly farmer Goes to milk the cow.(pretend to milk a cow) The second friendly farmer Thought he'd better plow.(working a garden) The third friendly farmer Feeds the hungry hens. (throw seeds to the chickens) The fourth friendly farmer Puts the piggies in their pens. (pretend to shoo pigs) The fifth friendly farmer Picks the ripe corn(pick corn) And waves to the neighbor When he blows his horn.(wave) When the work is finished And the evening sky is red Five tired farmers (yawn and stretch) Tumble into bed!(go to sleep) BARNYARD GATE: 1.Had a little rooster by the barnyard gate, That little rooster was my playmate, That little rooster went cock-a-doodle-doo, Dee doodle dee doodle dee doodle dee doo. 2.Had a little cat by the barnyard gate, That little cat was my playmate, That little cat went meow,meow, meow, That little rooster went cock-a -doodle -doo, Dee doodle dee doodle dee doodle dee doo. 3.....dog went arf,arf,arf........ 4......duck went quack,quack,quack.............. 5.......pig went oink,oink,oink.............. 6. ......sheep wentbaa,baa,baa.................. 7........cow went moo,moo,moo..................... 8........horse went neigh,neigh,neigh................ DOWN ON GRANDPA'S FARM: Oh we're on our way we're on our way ,on our way to Grandpa's farm. We're on our way, we're on our way to Grandpa's farm. (CHORUS) 1.Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown cow, Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown cow. The cow , she makes a sound like this: Moo! Moo! The cow she makes a sound like this: Moo! Moo!(CHORUS) 2.Down on Grandpa's farm there is a little red hen.(CHORUS) 3.Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big black dog.(CHORUS) 4. Down on Grandpa's farm there is a funny white duck.(CHORUS) 5.Down on Grandpa's farm there is a fat pink pig.(CHORUS) 6. Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown horse.(CHORUS) 7. Down on Grandpa's farm there is a new spring lamb.(CHORUS). We make a counting book, ten on first page, nine on second and so on. We use fingerprints for the crows and draw beaks and feet. I can't remember where I got it from but it is NOT original. We also make small child size scarecrows instead of one large one by having each student bring in one piece of clothing (child size) and then have parent helpers help each group of 4 or 5 stuff and put together the scarecrows. Then we name them and each child gets a copy of their birth certificate. We use large safety pins to hold each piece in place and us white t-shirt for head and draw on features. Then the students create a story about their scarecrow and dictate it to the parent helpers who copy them down to make into a book that each child in the group gets and illustrates. It is kept very short, just 4 or 5 pages. They love sharing the little scarecrow books with the other classmates. Build a scarecrow and making haystacks with chow mein noodles. My student teacher did a song to "OLD MACDONALD" using the short vowels . Old Macdonald had a farm AEIOU... and on this farm he had a cAt, AEIOU with a AA here and a AA there here and A there and A every where and AA OId MacDonald had a farm AEIOU and on this farm he had a hEn AEIOU with and EE here and a EE there I like the Old MacDOnald song about vowels but I will change it just a little bit. Old MacDonald had a farm, AEIOU. ANd on his farm he had short a, AEIOU. With an "aa" here(using the sound of short a), etc. Do all the short vowels and then long vowels. I would like to give credit to the following people who contributed to this project. [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

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Preschool Lesson: Zoo Animals & Their Needs

This lesson is a great introduction to a Pre K zoo theme. It would also be good to teach before a field trip to the zoo,

Zoo Animals and Their Needs Lesson Plan

  • Picture book about zoos - Two at the Zoo by Danna Smith
  • Chart Paper
  • Pictures of animals that you would find in a zoo and some that you wouldn’t
  • one piece of construction paper, per child
  • one worksheet with pictures of 3 zoo animals and 3 pets or farm animals to color and cut out, per child

Prior Knowledge

Read a book about going to the zoo to the class. A good one for preschoolers is Two at the Zoo, by Danna Smith. This simple counting story is about a little boy who takes his grandpa to the zoo and the animals they see there.

Students will learn what kind of animals they should expect to find in a zoo and then talk about the needs of animals to live.

Ask students what kinds of animals they would find in a zoo. Talk about the characteristics of these animals - they are usually wild animals not pets or farm animals, sometimes they are endangered animals, animals that live in in different countries that we might see if they weren’t in a zoo. Then on chart paper make t-chart and brainstorm a list of some animals that you would find in a zoo and those that wouldn’t be in a zoo.

Next talk a little bit about what animals need to live, especially in zoos. Tell the class that animals are living things and they need food, water, a place to live etc. You might choose a few animals and and discuss more specific things they would need in a zoo or in the wild. Penguins need cold temperatures. Giraffes and elephants need lots of space. Fish need water to swim in.

Hold up pictures of different animals and have the students show you thumbs up if they live in a zoo, thumbs down if they don’t. Then discuss some of the zoo animals and what specials needs they might have in the zoo.

Give each students a piece of construction paper and have them fold it in half. On one side of the fold have them write ‘Zoo’ and on the other ‘Not in a Zoo.’ Then give them the handout with the animals on it. Have them color and cut out the pictures and then sort and glue them onto the correct half of the paper.

Have the students chose an animal and draw a picture of it and some of the things it needs to live.

These fun preschool activities teach students about the sounds that different zoo animals make. They are a great addition to a zoo unit.

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  • one book page with the words " _______ says the ______________". per child
  • two pieces of construction paper for the front and back of the class book
  • yarn or ribbon
  • hole punch or a book binder

Use this lesson as part of a zoo or animals theme.

Read the book Peek-a-Zoo! by Marie Torres Cimarusti. Each page has an animal sound and then you lift the flap to find out which animal makes the sound. You can have the students guess the animals as you read the book.

After reading the book, tell the class you are going to play a guessing game. Have one student think of an animal and make its sound. Then let the other students guess what it is. You can also decide whether it is an animal you would find at the zoo. After a few students have gone, put the students into pairs or groups of three and let them play the same game.

The last activity for this lesson is to make a class book. Give each student a book page with the prompt " _______ says the ______________" on it. Have them choose a zoo animal and draw a picture of it. Then have each student dictate what the blanks should say on their page e.g. “ Roar says the lion .” You can do the writing for them or if it’s late in the year you can let them try to write it themselves. When everyone is finished collect the pages and put them into a class book with the title Zoo Sounds or something similar.

Look at the book pages. Did students know the correct sound for their animal? Did they choose an animal that would be in the zoo? If you let them try the writing, how close did they get? Were there beginning sounds? Did they represent ending sounds?

  • Read other animal sound books by Marie Torres Cimarusti .
  • Make other class books about animal sounds like Farm Sounds or Pet Sounds.

These preschool zoo unit activities will get your preschoolers excited about learning about animals.

This post is part of the series: Let’s Go to the Zoo: Zoo Lessons for Preschool

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Although social studies sounds like a subject you would expect much older children to be studying, toddlers and preschoolers learn about many of the essential social studies concepts as well. To your little one, social studies is taught as he explores his community and his place in it 2 . A farm theme can be a great way for him to examine the world around him -- and you can even make it fun.

As you begin your exploration of the farm, encourage your tot to make some artistic representations of the animals you could find there. To make a wooly sheep, trace her hand onto a piece of white paper and cut it out for her. Have her cover the palm part of the handprint with glue and place cotton balls onto it. The four fingers of the handprint will become the sheep's legs, and then draw a face onto the thumb. Make a pig by cutting out the shape of a pig for your child and then invite her to cover it in glue. Ask her to tear pieces of pink tissue paper and place them on the pig. Make a horse by cutting out the shape of a horse without legs. Have your little one clip four clothespins onto the bottom of the cutout for legs, and you will have a horse that can stand up on its own.

  • As you begin your exploration of the farm, encourage your tot to make some artistic representations of the animals you could find there.
  • Make a pig by cutting out the shape of a pig for your child and then invite her to cover it in glue.

Many children probably just take it for granted that a snack will be there when they ask for it, but they may not understand where their food comes from. Use your study of the farm as a way to teach your child about how different foods are grown or made. For example, show him how to make butter by putting whipping cream in a jar and shaking it vigorously until it begins to form butter. A marble in the jar can help speed up the process. When it is done, spread some on a piece of bread for a treat. Discuss how fruits and vegetables are grown on farms and have your tot help you as you wash or peel some and then enjoy a healthful snack together.

  • Many children probably just take it for granted that a snack will be there when they ask for it, but they may not understand where their food comes from.
  • Discuss how fruits and vegetables are grown on farms and have your tot help you as you wash or peel some and then enjoy a healthful snack together.

What little one doesn't love pretending and role-playing? Move your furniture around to create a "barnyard" in your living room and create several "pens" using couch cushions or empty boxes. Your child can draw animals to place in the pretend farm, or gather stuffed animals you have around your house. Model how to be the "farmer" and feed the animals. Discuss what the animals eat or jobs that the farmer does by saying things like, "Oh look, these chickens are really hungry for their corn" or "I need to milk these cows." Then let your little one have a turn being the farmer and taking care of the animals.

  • What little one doesn't love pretending and role-playing?
  • Your child can draw animals to place in the pretend farm, or gather stuffed animals you have around your house.

While making crafts and talking about the farm can be a lot of fun, the best way for a young child to connect what she is learning is by seeing and experiencing it for herself. If possible, find a farm in your area that will allow you to visit. A dairy farm can be a great way for your child to see how her milk comes from the cows on the farm and how it gets to the grocery store. Other farms can offer her an opportunity to see fruits and vegetables growing right in the field instead of in the produce section of the grocery store, and she can compare the differences. Even the machinery used on a farm can be a new experience for your little one, so encourage her to ask about what it is and how it is used.

  • While making crafts and talking about the farm can be a lot of fun, the best way for a young child to connect what she is learning is by seeing and experiencing it for herself.
  • A dairy farm can be a great way for your child to see how her milk comes from the cows on the farm and how it gets to the grocery store.

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Animal Farm : Allegory and the Art of Persuasion

Cover of Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell (2008 edition)

Cover of Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell (2008 edition).

Allegories are similar to metaphors: in both the author uses one subject to represent another, seemingly unrelated, subject. However, unlike metaphors, which are generally short and contained within a few lines, an allegory extends its representation over the course of an entire story, novel, or poem. This lesson plan will introduce students to the concept of allegory by using George Orwell’s widely read novella, Animal Farm , which is available online through Project Gutenberg.

Guiding Questions

What are allegories and how are they used in literature?

What makes an allegory effective?

Why is Orwell's Animal Farm an allegory?

Learning Objectives

Assess the allegories used in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

Explain how allegories operate as a rhetorical device.

Evaluate the social and political significance of Animal Farm . 

Lesson Plan Details

At the time when Animal Farm was published in the 1940s the rule of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union and events in Ukraine and Georgia, as well as other places throughout Eastern Europe, would have been familiar to the average reader. This background knowledge will help to make the allegorical structure of Orwell’s novella clear to students. This lesson plan can be adapted to expand on history and social studies lessons which focus on this time period.

Allegory can be found both in literature and in the visual arts, such as painting and sculpture. Like metaphors, allegories utilize one subject as if it were analogous to another, seemingly unrelated, subject. Unlike metaphors, the representational image is more detailed and is sustained throughout the length of a story, novel, or poem. Allegories are generally understood as rhetorical, and, as a form of rhetoric, are generally designed to persuade their audience. More information about allegories and rhetoric is accessible through EDSITEment's Literary Glossary .

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

In this lesson students will focus on George Orwell’s Animal Farm as an example of this rhetorical device, as it is perhaps the most widely read allegory in the middle school and high school classrooms. Orwell’s 1945 novella is an allegorical indictment of tyranny which utilizes the historical events and players of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent rise of Stalin as a cautionary tale. This lesson can be taught in conjunction with a close reading of the text, or it can be used to introduce the concept of allegory. Other well known allegorical texts include Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen , William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies , and John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress .

  • Review and bookmark the web pages containing definitions for allegory and rhetoric , as well as the text of George Orwell’s Animal Farm .  
  • A complete audiobook is available.
  • The 1954 cartoon film of Animal Farm (70 minutes) is available. 

Activity 1. Animal Farm and Allegory

George Orwell’s 1945 novella, Animal Farm , is the story of an animal revolution. The animal residents of Manor Farm, spurred on by the dream of the pig, Old Major, decide they will change their “miserable, laborious, and short” lives. They overthrow Mr. Jones, their master, and take over the management of the farm. Rather than living under the heel of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm decide that they will take control of the products of their labor, working for the good of the farm and other animals, rather than for the good of humans.

How is this story allegorical? You may provide your own definition of allegory, or you can ask your students to read the definition of allegory that is available through EDSITEment's Literary Glossary . If an allegory is “a n extended metaphor in which characters and objects hold both a literal meaning as well as a secondary, implied meaning, ” then what is the additional or alternative meaning contained in Orwell’s story of animal rebellion?

Activity 2. The Collective Farm and the Communist State

Many of the events at Manor Farm are closely linked to political events in Russia during the first half of the twentieth century. The rebellion by the working animals of the farm against the oppressive human farmer who lives off the fruits of their labor is directly analogous to the Russian Revolution of 1917 in which workers and peasants revolted against a feudal system in which feudal lords lived luxuriously from the toil of the peasants who farmed on their lands. If your students are not already familiar with some of the main events of Russian history from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of World War II, you may wish to have them read an overview of the history of the Soviet Union .

Ask students to answer the following questions about the events that take place on the Manor Farm, and how they are an allegorical retelling of the events from the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II in Russia.

  • How is Orwell’s Animal Farm an allegorical retelling of the end of feudalism and the rise and consolidation of communism in Russia?
  • How does Orwell parallel Czarist Russia and the life of the Russian peasants in the characters and events of Animal Farm ?
  • What internal feud within the Communist party is paralleled in the struggle for power between Napoleon and Snowball?
  • During the Stalinist period the Communist State repeatedly set industrial and agricultural production goals that were often difficult or impossible to reach. These goals played a major role in the government’s Five Year Plan and similar plans. How are these plans represented in Orwell’s novella?

Activity 3. What's in a Name?

Many of the characters in Animal Farm are clearly meant to represent historical figures. The human inspiration for Orwell’s fictional characters can often be found in the characters’ parallel actions, and sometimes even in their names. As an important structural component of the novella as an allegorical tale, each of the characters in the story is representative of players in the historical narrative the story represents.

After discussing with the class the trajectory of the Russian revolution and subsequent Communist Party fracturing, ask students to work in pairs on the characters of Animal Farm . If students are less familiar with the historical context, or if this lesson is not being taught in conjunction with a close reading of the Orwell text, you may prefer to work on completing this chart together as a class. 

Once students have filled out their charts ask them to think about the names of each of the characters. What importance and symbolism is contained in Orwell’s choice of names? Draw their attention to Napoleon and Boxer in particular.

Finally, ask students to answer the following questions:

  • What is the metaphor at the heart of Orwell’s allegorical tale?
  • How do the characters support the larger allegory of the story?
  • How is Orwell’s choice of animal and name for each character important in contributing to the larger story?

Activity 4. Tyranny by any other Name...

Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 , are often cited as works that are designed to show the weaknesses of Communism. These works took aim at the Soviet Union, however Orwell’s larger target was tyranny, in whatever form it appeared. He was as much concerned with the repression of rights and the injustice of the economic system in his own England as he was about Stalinist Russia.

As an allegorical tale about the dangers of tyranny, Orwell’s Animal Farm uses the story of Napoleon, Snowball, and Boxer as a form of rhetoric . Rhetoric can be understood as the use of language to persuade an audience of a belief or point of view. In the case of Animal Farm , Orwell is using the story of Manor Farm’s animal rebellion to caution people against the encroachment of tyranny. More information on rhetoric can be found in EDSITEment's Literary Glossary .

Ask students to contemplate the use of rhetoric in Animal Farm using the recommended questions : 

  • How is this allegorical tale also a rhetorical tale?
  • What is Orwell trying to persuade the audience to see or understand?
  • What is Orwell cautioning his audience against?
  • How does the story of Boxer act as a persuasive argument against tyranny?
  • What are the lessons to be learned from Napoleon’s behavior?
  • What is the warning contained in the changes to the list of commandments?
  • What is the lesson contained in the final, single commandment: All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others?

Ask students to gather together their answers to the questions posed throughout this lesson, which they should then use as the basis for writing a short essay answer the following questions:

  • How is Orwell’s Animal Farm an allegory, and what is in an allegory?
  • What are the rhetorical components of this allegory?
  • How is the use of allegory as a rhetorical device different from simply laying out a non-fictional account, or an historical or statistical analysis of the period and the rise of the Communist Party?
  • How is Orwell’s use of allegory rhetorically successful?

Martin Niemoller was a church pastor in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power. He shifted from an early support of Hitler to being very outspoken against the Nazi agenda and practices. He was arrested and held in concentration camps throughout World War II, and barely escaped execution. He is now perhaps best known for his cautionary poem:

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Ask students to compare Niemoller’s cautionary poem with Orwell’s allegorical story of the Manor Farm. How are their messages similar or different? How is the method of delivering those message similar or different?

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