Watermarks Classroom Guide
To accompany the Watermarks project, Metro Arts partnered with Metro Nashville Public Schools teacher Ted Edinger to create a classroom guide for kindergarten through fourth grade students. The guide includes lesson plans that provide writing opportunities and art making exercises. Each lesson plan can be customized to make cross curricular connections in science, math and social studies.
“The art created for the Watermarks project, at its core, is about identity. Who we were before the flood, who are we now that the flood has happened, and who will we choose to be in light of the devastation that has touched our lives. Not only do the communities impacted by this event have to ask such questions, but the individuals involved must ask that of themselves.
Identity is a major theme in the life of elementary students. They connect with the idea of finding who they are as it relates to them as an individual, a family, a community, and from a global perspective. Each work connected with the Watermarks project has a story to share with the elementary art student, as well as a story to inspire the student to pursue a deeper understand of themselves. The lessons connected with each work are designed to explore this theme of IDENTITY.”
- Ted Edinger, Elementary Art Teacher
Watermarks Classroom Guide