Lesson Plan

Healing Canvas Roadmap

Guide 10th-grade students through a five-session trauma-informed art therapy project. Students create expressive paintings to process emotions, reflect through journal prompts, and self-assess growth using structured tools.

Provides a safe, individualized space for trauma processing through creative expression. Builds emotional regulation, self-awareness, and coping skills for 10th graders in need of targeted therapeutic support.

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Prep

Review Materials & Prepare Space

30 minutes

Step 1

Session 1: Orientation & Emotional Grounding

70 minutes

Step 2

Session 2: Expressive Painting – Memory Mapping

70 minutes

Step 3

Session 3: Expressive Painting – Emotional Exploration

70 minutes

Step 4

Session 4: Artist’s Reflection & Insight

70 minutes

Step 5

Session 5: Self-Assessment & Closure

70 minutes

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Art as Therapy

Why Art Therapy?

Trauma-Informed Principles

Project & Session Overview

Grounding Exercises

Color & Emotion

Expressive Painting: Memory Mapping

Emotional Exploration Layer

Reflection & Self-Assessment

Resources & Next Steps

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Activity

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Journal

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Rubric

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