ALEX Learning Activity

Keith Haring Dancing Drawings

A Learning Activity is a strategy a teacher chooses to actively engage students in learning a concept or skill using a digital tool/resource.

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Author: Abby Kuhn
System:Auburn City
School:Auburn City Board Of Education
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 1696
Title:
Keith Haring Dancing Drawings
Digital Tool/Resource:
Break Dancing Video: Beat Street 1984 -The Roxy Battle
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

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. 

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 3
Visual Arts
1) Elaborate on an individual or prompted imaginative idea.

Examples: Create an imaginative mask showing his/her personality.
Look at masks from different cultures such as Chinese, African and Native American.

English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
18. Demonstrate content knowledge built during independent reading of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through writing.
Learning Objectives:

Students will identify break dancing as the inspiration for Keith Haring's dancing figures.
Students will illustrate movement using motion lines in a dancing figure drawing.
  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
During/Explore/Explain
Activity:

Students will read Kay Haring's picture book, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing.

Students will answer questions from the text.
What inspired Keith?
Why did he make art?
Why did he give his money away?
Where did he make art? 
(NOTE: Information for taking an Accelerated Reading (AR) Test on this book is included in the Advanced Preparations section below.)

Students will view images of Keith Haring's dancing figures. The instructor could share illustrations from the book or use a digital tool to share images of Keith Haring's paintings from Jenny Shepard's Tes Teach Gallery. 

Students will discuss how the motion lines illustrate movement for the figure.

Students will view a few minutes of a breakdancing video from YouTube. 
*You can share the whole 5-minute video if you would like. Two minutes would be enough for students to get the idea.

Students will create their own dancing figure drawing inspired by the movements of the dancers from the video.

Students will use motion lines to illustrate movement in their dancing figure drawing.
Assessment Strategies:

Objective

Mastered

Attempted

Student identified break dancing as the inspiration for Keith Haring’s dancing figures based on the text.

 

 

Student illustrated movement in their dancing figure drawing using motion lines.

 

 

 
Advanced Preparation:

Resources Needed:

Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing (Book)
Haring, Kay A.
AR Quiz No. 187592 En Nonfiction
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts. 0.5
AR Quiz Types: RP

Break Dancing Video 
Beat Street 1984 (The Roxy Battle)

Images of his Art:
I would recommend selecting a view images of his work to share with your class. 
You can also download this free color sheet to use as an "idea sheet" for your class. Students can use this sheet to help plan their dancing figure drawing.
http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/dancing-figures-by-keith-haring


Supplies Needed:
Paper (Your desired size)
Pencils
Erasers
Sharpies (for outlining pencil drawing)
Crayons/Markers (for adding optional color)
Variation Tips (optional):

Please consider the follow-up activity, Keith Haring Dance Phrase.
Notes or Recommendations (optional):
 
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