Search the Lesson Plan Database
Overview
All Arts Impact programs use a common lesson plan format co-designed with classroom teachers. Each lesson identifies the following key components:
- Enduring understanding: the big idea of the lesson
- Student learning targets and criteria
- Instructional and classroom management strategies
- Cultural and material resources
- Essential lesson vocabulary
- Assessment strategies
- State arts standards
- State academic standards for math, reading or writing (infused content)
Sample Lesson Plan Templates
- Arts Foundations (text version)
- Arts Foundations – Early Learning (text version)
- Arts Infusion (text version)
- Arts and Math Infusion (text version)
- Arts and Reading Infusion (text version)
- Arts and Writing Infusion (text version)
Lesson Plan Database
Arts Impact’s Lesson Plan Database is a wide variety of arts and arts-infused lessons.
This searchable database includes lessons from various Arts Impact models: Arts Foundations and Arts Infusion; Arts-infused Summer School; Arts Impact/Arts Leadership; Teacher Training: Arts as Literacy; and selected teacher written lessons.
Some lessons focus on foundational arts concepts and some on arts-infused concepts. Each lesson includes clear learning targets, assessments, resource materials, teaching strategies, and examples of prompts. All lessons are aligned with both Washington State Arts Standards and Common Core State Standards. Applicable lessons are also aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Washington State Early Learning Guidelines.
Arts Impact makes these lessons available for public use to provide support for on-going teacher autonomy in teaching and infusing the arts in the classroom. Please credit Arts Impact and the specific lesson authors when sharing or teaching these lessons.
Browse the full database or search using any of the following categories:
- PreK – 8th grade
- Grade level: Kindergarten – 5th grade
- Artistic disciplines: Dance, Theater, and Visual Arts
- Core content area: Math, Reading, Writing and Science
- Arts concept: examples include shape, character or pattern
- Academic concept: examples include narrative, story structure or symmetry
- Artistic skill or technique: examples include drawing, movement or physical/vocal choice
