Lesson Overview

Students will:

• Observe Chinese artworks depicting landscapes that include natural and built elements, and consider their significance
• Learn about urbanization and overdevelopment in contemporary Shanghai
• Explore how art plays a role in local activism in their own communities

• Paper
• Drawing materials (such as colored pencils, crayons, markers, etc.)
• Scissors
• Tape or glue
• Large backing materials (such as butcher paper, poster board, etc.)
• Animated video: On the Quiet Water—Underwater Paradise, by Yang Yongliang
• Photograph of the Shanghai skyline
• Map of China showing the location of Shanghai

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