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Aim: To reflect on the personal, emotional, or cultural significance of objects.
Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Themes: Memory, Contemporary Perspectives, Identity
Artworks: Wedding Sofa, North Germany, 1838
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, Social Studies, English Language Arts
Aim: To create holiday greetings using non-traditional materials.
Grades: K-2, 3-5
Themes: Identity
Artworks: Happy Jack: New Year Greeting, Alaska, 1910
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, English Language Arts
Aim: To create a personal envelope book inspired by Harriete Estel Berman's work Tzedakah.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Identity
Artworks: Berman: Tzedakah, Alms Container, USA, 1999; Happy Jack: New Year Greeting, Alaska, 1910
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, English Language Arts
Aim: To work in small groups to create imaginative sukkah designs for different environments.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Ritual
Artworks: Wexler: Dining Room with Walls as Projections of Chairs …, USA, 1988
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, Math, Science
Aim: To use found objects to design a hanging sculpture for your sukkah or window.
Grades: K-2, 3-5
Themes: Ritual
Artworks: Wexler: Dining Room with Walls as Projections of Chairs …, USA, 1988
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To paint images of celebration.
Grades: K-2, 3-5
Themes: Identity, Ritual
Artworks: Hart: The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue…, 1850
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To create three-dimensional crowns and finials for the Torah.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Identity, Ritual
Artworks: Shulkin: Torah Ark, Iowa, USA, 1899; Hart: The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue…, 1850; Zabari: Torah Crown, USA, 1969
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To create a mosaic inspired by the decorations on a Persian synagogue wall.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Identity, Ritual
Artworks: Hart: The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue…, 1850; Portion of a Synagogue Wall, Isfahan, Persia, 16th century
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, Math
Aim: To use found materials to create Hanukkah lamps inspired by Joel Otterson’s Unorthodox Menorah II.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Ceremonial Objects, Identity, Ritual
Artworks: Godley: Miracle, Hanukkah Lamp, USA, 2004; Hanukkah Lamp, Stolin, c. 1885; Otterson: Unorthodox Menorah, Hanukkah Lamp, USA, 1993
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To reflect on light and dark through collage.
Grades: K-2, 3-5
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Ceremonial Objects
Artworks: Godley: Miracle, Hanukkah Lamp, USA, 2004
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To create a portrait of a hero in words and pictures.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Identity
Artworks: Goldberg: Untitled, Seder Plate, USA, 1996; Indiana: Purim: Four Facets of Esther, 1967; Otterson: Unorthodox Menorah, Hanukkah Lamp, USA, 1993; Reichert: Miriam Cup, USA, 1997; Godley: Miracle, Hanukkah Lamp, USA, 2004
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, English Language Arts
Aim: To create landscapes through collage.
Grades: K-2, 3-5
Themes: Ritual
Artworks: Halpert: Trees, 1917
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To create personal books reflecting on one’s own bravery.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Identity
Artworks: Indiana: Purim: Four Facets of Esther, 1967
Discipline: Visual Art, English Language Arts
Aim: To create a work of art that tells the Purim story using only numbers, words, and shapes.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Identity
Artworks: Indiana: Purim: Four Facets of Esther, 1967
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, Math, English Language Arts
Aim: To create a class scroll illustrating the entire Book of Esther.
Grades: K-2, 3-5
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Ritual
Artworks: Indiana: Purim: Four Facets of Esther, 1967
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To create seder plates for Passover.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Ceremonial Objects, Identity, Ritual
Artworks: Goldberg: Untitled, Seder Plate, USA, 1996
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To write poems that reflect on the meaning of freedom.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Identity
Artworks: Reichert: Miriam Cup, USA, 1997; Goldberg: Untitled, Seder Plate, USA, 1996
Discipline: English Language Arts
Aim: To role-play various scenes in the story of the Exodus.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Ritual
Artworks: Goldberg: Untitled, Seder Plate, USA, 1996; Tissot: Pharaoh's Daughter Receives the Mother of…, c. 1996-1902
Discipline: Theater, Jewish Studies, English Language Arts
Aim: To create Shavuot papercuts exploring symmetry and the use of positive and negative space.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Ritual
Artworks: Shulkin: Torah Ark, Iowa, USA, 1899
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, Math
Aim: To design omer calendars.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Ceremonial Objects, Identity, Ritual
Artworks: Shulkin: Torah Ark, Iowa, USA, 1899; Kahn: Saphyr, Omer Calendar, 2002
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, Math
Aim: To create a symbolic reminder of Israel.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Identity
Artworks: Formstecher: Model of the Second Temple in Jerusalem…, 1813
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To use creative writing to reflect on the thoughts and feelings of the figures in the Sabbath-related work of art.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Identity, Ritual
Artworks: Kaufmann: Friday Evening, c. 1920
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies, English Language Arts
Aim: To bring the spirit of the Sabbath into your classroom.
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Ceremonial Objects, Identity
Artworks: Studio Armadillo : Linen, 2002; Kaufmann: Friday Evening, c. 1920
Discipline: Visual Art, Jewish Studies
Aim: To make a tower-form spice container.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Themes: Contemporary Perspectives, Ceremonial Objects, Identity, Ritual
Artworks: Kaufmann: Friday Evening, c. 1920; Segal: Spice Container, Israel, 1986
Discipline: Visual Art, English Language Arts