Objectives:

As a result of this activity students will be able to:

• learn how to represent realistic proportions and positions of the human body.
  
• research costume, flags, color, and other symbols (or sometimes develop original ideas) to visually represent their ethnic origin.
  
• create art that enhances their self-esteem by increasing awareness of their own ethnic and cultural heritage.

Standards:

Michigan Curriculum Framework: Content Standards and Benchmarks: Visual Arts

Content Standard 5
All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

Content Standard 4
All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

Excerpted from: Arts Education Content Standards and Benchmarks: Visual Arts (Michigan Department of Education, 1996).

For more information see The Michigan Curriculum Framework.