Carving Tools at Mount Rushmore for Grades 3, 4 and 5
- Grade Level:
- Third Grade-Fifth Grade
- Visual Arts
- One to two 50-minute sessions
- National/State Standards:
- Visual Arts for 3rd - 5th grades
U.S. National Standards for Visual Arts
Grade k-4 Visual Arts Standard 1:http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/standards/
Grade 5-8 Visual Arts Standard 1:http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/standards/
OverviewLearn about the marks that carving tools make. Students will learn about the processes of rock removal at Mount Rushmore and understand why the different tools were used at each point of the process.
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