Students will read a description of the pine barrens by Basil Hall and analyze the text by using the 3-2-1 strategy. Students will discuss the life and work of Basil Hall, including his travels and journaling in North America. They will observe how a camera lucida functions and debate whether using a camera lucida is "cheating" in art. Next, students will venture outside to create a sketch of their environment while appropriately utilizing materials. They will compare and contrast their products to the sketches of Basil Hall and critique each other's work.
This lesson was created in partnership with the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Students will view and discuss Van Gogh's painting, The Bedroom. Next, students will elaborate on Van Gogh's art by creating a list of items to include in a depiction of their bedroom to organize and develop their artistic ideas. Lastly, students will construct a representation of their bedroom using torn paper scraps.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
Students will read Kay Haring's picture book, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing. Students will answer questions from the text. Students will identify break dancing as his inspiration. The students will watch a few minutes of a Break Dancing video from YouTube. They will draw their own dancing figure using motion lines to illustrate movement.
Students will read Michelle Markel's picture book, The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau. Students will discuss the main character of the book, Henri Rousseau. Students will discuss how people's reactions to his artwork have changed over time. Students will create an individual imagined jungle word list to be used as a prompt for a jungle drawing. They will elaborate on their individual imagined jungle word list by creating a jungle drawing that contains a subject and background.
Students will review and solve multiplication of numbers less than 100 using word problems and arrays by creating a prompted work of art.
Students will analyze images from Joris Hoefnagel's Mira calligraphiae monumenta. They will illustrate a figurative saying featuring an animal, such as a simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. They will write the saying in ornate font and draw the animals using pens, colored pencils, or markers.
Students will explore ancient Roman history. They will discuss and analyze different stories and images of statues. They will create a statue and write a narrative about the sculpture.
Students will analyze illuminated manuscripts. They will identify decorated initials, historiated initials, borders, illuminations, parchment, and scribe. They will write a fairy tale and illustrate it in the style of illuminated manuscripts.
Students will analyze examples of Wassily Kandinsky's artwork focusing on shapes, lines, and colors. While listening to music, they will complete a nonobjective piece of art by cutting shapes, coloring around the shapes, and using lines.
Students will listen to Antonio Vivaldi's Autumn and identify the instruments, tempo, and dynamics heard. They will identify the emotions, colors, and visual imagery. They will sketch and paint fall leaves. They will discuss why leaves change colors.
Students will listen to and analyze each movement of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. They will identify musical elements that represent each season. They will use oil pastels to create a deciduous tree in all four seasons.
Students will listen to Ludwig van Beethoven's 6th Symphony. They will identify the imagery portrayed by the music. They will use oil pastel crayons to create a visual representation of the music.
Students will listen to and analyze Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. They will make connections between the music and the Russian folktale, The Firebird. They will create pictures and write a poem about a firebird.
Students will name colors and identify complementary colors using a color wheel. They will cut organic and geometric shapes and make a collage. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will recreate poses seen in paintings. They will make a gesture drawing of a classmate in three different poses. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will collaborate to choose sketches to use as a template for a wire sculpture. They will use wire to create a three-dimensional human form. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will analyze characters in paintings. They will imagine a character and make a sketch of it. They will make a monotype or an oil pastel drawing of the character. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will make a preliminary drawing of a scene of their choice. They will enlarge one object to create attention. They will use watercolor pencils to create a final drawing. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will analyze paintings of landscapes to identify horizons and overlapping shapes. They will use watercolor painting techniques to create a landscape with a horizon and overlapping shapes. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will observe dance movements in drawings and paintings. Students will work in pairs and do simple gesture drawings of their partner in a dance pose. They will choose a sketch to make a new drawing and paint it with watercolors. They will write a persuasive essay discussing the importance of dance in schools. Students will work in groups to choreograph a short dance.
Students will analyze the Pilgrim Flask, identifying that grotesque designs include both ugly and beautiful elements. They will sketch a design of the pilgrim bottle using pencils and a blue crayon. Students will work in groups to create a grotesque door panel that includes symmetry. They will analyze a grotesque poem and compose a contradiction poem.
Students will analyze a photograph and photo collage of the Pearblossom Highway. They will define and identify linear perspective, horizon line, and vanishing point. They will draw a road through a desert landscape using one-point perspective. They will complete the landscape using colored pencils.
Students will analyze Jacques-Louis David's painting The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte. They will compose a fairy tale based on the painting. They will illustrate a scene from their original fairy tale.
Students will analyze paintings of landscapes, focusing on texture. They will sketch an imagined landscape. They will create textures using rubbings and write a letter to a friend or family member describing their landscape. The drawing will be glued to the front of a postcard with the letter on the back.
Students will analyze two beds, Lit à Polonaise and Lit à Turque. They will draw a bed using three-dimensional drawing techniques. They will build and paint a three-dimensional model of the bed.
Students will discuss fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. They will sketch a character from one of the fairy tales. They will create a portrait using colored pencils, crayons, pastels, or watercolors.
Students will explore the history of quilts, uses of quilts, and quilt block patterns. They will create a pattern for a collage quilt block. Each student will complete one block to be used in the class quilt.
Students will analyze a self-portrait by Judith Leyster. They will write an "I Am" poem and create a monogram to sign their art.
Students will analyze different types of shapes in Beasts of the Sea by Henri Matisse. They will create a paper collage using geometric and natural shapes.
Students will analyze the Astor Chinese Garden Court. They will draw a picture of a landscape.
Students will analyze a variety of artwork. They will make a list of problems and solutions to creating artwork. Working in pairs, students will collaborate to create a piece of art.
Students will analyze the painting, Person in the Presence of Nature, by Joan Miró. They will create a creature that could live in the landscape in the painting.
Students will describe lines seen in art and photographs of animals. They will create an animal drawing using a variety of lines - curved, straight, dots, dashes, spirals, and looping. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will analyze the painting, Cakes, by Wayne Theibaud. They will practice fractions and paint a decorated cake.
Students will create scribble art. They will use three colors to fill the space between the lines. Students will compare and contrast each work.