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   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] VISA (6) 1 :
1) Work collaboratively to develop new and innovative ideas for creating art.

Subject: Arts Education (6)
Title: School Spirit
Description:

Essential Question: How does collaboration expand the creative process?

The students will investigate, plan, and make a mural. The students will collaborate on how to create a mural to be displayed within the school for all students and faculty to view as a way to show and demonstrate their school spirit.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.



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ALEX Classroom Resources  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] VISA (6) 1 :
1) Work collaboratively to develop new and innovative ideas for creating art.

[ARTS] VISA (6) 2 :
2) Formulate an artistic investigation and discovery of relevant content for creating art.

Example: Make, share, and revise a list of ideas and preliminary sketches.

Subject: Arts Education (6)
Title: Values in Profile
URL: http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sixth-Grade-Lesson-4.pdf
Description:

Students will analyze profile views in portraits.  They will practice sketching a head in profile.  They will draw a classmate's profile using charcoal.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.  


   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] VISA (6) 1 :
1) Work collaboratively to develop new and innovative ideas for creating art.

[ARTS] VISA (6) 3 :
3) Develop new ideas through open-ended experiments, using various materials, methods and approaches in creating works of art.

Subject: Arts Education (6)
Title: Playing With Scale
URL: http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sixth-Grade-Lesson-6.pdf
Description:

Students will analyze a sculpture of a dog and focus on how the scale was enlarged.  Classmates will brainstorm household objects.  They will draw an object on an enlarged scale.  They will build a sculpture of the object using a poster board.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF. 


   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] VISA (6) 1 :
1) Work collaboratively to develop new and innovative ideas for creating art.

[ARTS] VISA (6) 3 :
3) Develop new ideas through open-ended experiments, using various materials, methods and approaches in creating works of art.

[ARTS] VISA (6) 8 :
8) Collaboratively or individually develop a visual plan for displaying works of art in a designated space.

Subject: Arts Education (6)
Title: What Is Real and What Is Not
URL: http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sixth-Grade-Lesson-8.pdf
Description:

Students will analyze art focusing on juxtaposition.  Students will be divided into three groups - setting, objects, and figures.  Each group will work in secret to create their part of a large mural painting.  Classmates will work together to organize the mural.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.   


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