I have always found that visual arts has had a profound positive effect on me, and it wasn't until I read the rationale behind why we teach visual arts to our students that I realized why.
Through the process of visual arts, students become aware of the ideas and emotions expressed in visual images and gain the knowledge, skilled, and attitudes needed to engage in and appreciate the visual arts throughout their lives.
To be able to have this awareness to appreciate and see the various forms of art is something I value and hope to pass on to my students.
For me I appreciate the images nature have to offer in the world around us such as in this fall photo of the river. This is something I would love to do for an integrated fine arts and literacy lesson, where studies are to capture something from the outdoors either a drawing, painting or photograph and write a story about it.
