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John James AudubonJohn James AudubonArtist and NaturalistArtist and Naturalist
A Unit to accompany Picturing AmericaA program of the National Endowment of the Humanities
Monique Poldberg2009
American Flamingo, 1838John James Audubon (Robert Havell, Engraver)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Integrated Content AreasVisual Art, Science, Language Arts, History
Big IdeaLiving Things Grow and Change
ThemesArtists as Naturalists - Naturalists as Artists
Connecting the Past to the Present
Grade LevelPrimary Grades
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What will students know and be able to do?
1. Students will learn about the contributions of John JamesAudubon and connect those contributions to the present day.
2. Students will be able to observe and document a bird with bothartistic and linguistic representations (include life cycle stages.)
3. Students will be able to research, observe and documentinformation about a bird to contribute to a class field guide with artand writing.
4. Students will learn about other naturalists-artists.
5. Students will be able to compare and contrast the contributionsof two or more artists-naturalists.
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Vocabulary
ornithology/ornithologistobserve/observation
comparecontrasthabitat
journal/journalingtaxidermy/taxidermist
naturalistscientisttimeline
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ARTS INTEGRATION MODEL Initial stimulus
A work of art/ a pieceof literature
Art production Vocabulary & Content Instruction
Oral and/or Written Expression
Publication or Presentation
Arts LINC Poldberg/Andrzejczak 2008
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Initial Stimulus
American Flamingo, 1838John James Audubon,
(Robert Havell, Engraver)National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
in Picturing America Print Set
Literature & ResourceBooks
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Art Production Observational drawing
• Lessons include teachermodeling of technique and useof materials.
• Students are given models orphotographs of birds to observe.
• Students are given multipleopportunities to practice beforecreating their final product.
• Vocabulary and content areintegrated in all lessons.
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Students can focus on the adult bird
Or the life cycle stages:
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Study the bird in its habitator in action:
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Study details
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Oral & Written ExpressionIn response to their art and
observations--Students have multiple
opportunities to share orally create a variety of written
responses, includinglabeling, descriptive,narrative and expositorycompositions.
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Publication or Presentation
Student work will becombined to createa Field Guide ofBirds and publishedas a class book.
Student work maybe displayedpublicly.
Original student work © R.I., 2009
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Compare Audubon to otherAmerican Artists-Naturalists
The Summer Duck (1747) Mark Catesbyfrom the book Mark Catesby’s Natural History of America, The
Watercolors from the Royal Library of Windsor Castle, 1997
Alexander Wilson Martin Johnson Heade
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Connect to present dayconservation efforts
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All original photographs © Monique Poldberg, 2009