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.

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.

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.

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.