Smile Compositions
An Exploration into the Art and Anatomy of the Smile
Module Information
Grades:6, 7, 8
Oral Health Subjects: Anatomy, Smiles, Anomalies, Tooth Loss
Keywords:Composition, Dentition, Exfoliation, Buccal, Microbiomes
Learning Goals:
- Understand key vocabulary and composition related to visual representations of oral anatomy.
- Describe different anatomical variations that can occur with teeth.
- Identify different cultural modifications of the smile.
- Analyze how different artistic representations of the smile relate to the history of oral health care.
Educational Standards
National Health Education Standards
1.8.2 Analyze how practices and behaviors support a variety of dimensions of wellness.
1.8.4 Analyze practices and behaviors that support health and well-being, including how to manage health conditions.
1.8.6 Analyze how individual, interpersonal, community, and environmental factors impact health and well-being.
2.8.2 Analyze individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental factors that influence health behaviors, health outcomes, and health equity.
2.8.3 Analyze how various influences affect the health and well-being of people and communities in different ways.
3.8.1 Describe situations that may require support from trusted adults, other individuals, and health professionals.
7.8.2 Analyze practices and behaviors that support personal and community health and well-being.
7.8.3 Demonstrate practices and behaviors that support personal and community health and well-being.
8.8.1 Analyze opportunities to advocate for the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities.
National Core Arts Standards
VA:Re.7.1.6a. Identify and interpret works of art or design that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.
VA:Re.7.1.7a. Explain how the method of display, the location, and the experience of an artwork
influence how it is perceived and valued.
VA:Re.7.1.8a. Explain how a person’s aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and impact the visual image that one conveys to others.
VA:Re.7.2.6a. Analyze ways that visual components and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions
VA:Re.7.2.7a. Analyze multiple ways that images influence specific audiences
VA:Re8.1.6a. Interpret art by distinguishing between relevant and non-relevant contextual
information and analyzing subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
VA:Re8.1.7a. Interpret art by analyzing art-making approaches, the characteristics of form and
structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
VA:Re8.1.8a. Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of
form and structure, use of media, art-making approaches, and relevant contextual information
contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.
VA:Cn11.1.6a. Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses
VA:Cn11.1.7a Analyze how response to art is influenced by understanding the time and place in which it was created, the available resources, and cultural uses
VA:Cn11.1.8a. Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity.
National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
D2.Geo.5.6-8. Analyze the combinations of cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from other places.
D2.Geo.6.6-8. Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identities and cultures.
D2.His.1.6-8. Analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.
D2.His.2.6-8. Classify series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity.
D2.His.4.6-8. Analyze multiple factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.
D2.His.5.6-8. Explain how and why perspectives of people have changed over time.