JARRETT M. BELL

April 12, 2016

This 4th grade lesson uses Kahlo's Self Portrait Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States to teach about immigrants often mixed feelings on immigration. We use the art to discuss the symbolsim, cost, and purpose of Immigration.

UEN Core: VA.4.2. and SS.4.2

April 12, 2016

Second Grade. In this simple art lesson we learn the basis of Surrealism using animals to represent each of us. In The Wounded Deer, Frida Kahlo uses a deer as the rest of her body. Why would she do that in a self portrait?

April 12, 2016

In this 3rd Grade lesson students are assigned a fake "disability" in which they have to use the opposite hand to write a prompt. Then we use the story of Frida Kahlo, a woman with severe physical limatations, was still able to create beautiful artwork. 

UEN Core: HE.3.2