Creating
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Investigate, Plan, Make
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1) Brainstorm collaboratively to create a work of art. |
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2) Explore personal interests and curiosities with a range of art materials. a. Create two-dimensional art. Examples: Paper-weaving, drawing, and resist painting. Use book about weaving, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood & Martin Link. b. Create three-dimensional art. Examples: Clay animals and pipe cleaner sculptures. Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor. |
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3) Extend skills by individually following sequential steps to create works of art on subjects that are real or imaginary. Example: Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle. Create a real or imagined home. |
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4) Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for cleaning, utilizing, and maintaining materials, tools, and equipment while making art. Examples: properly using brushes, closing glue bottles and marker tops. |
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Reflect, Refine, Continue
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5) Create an artwork using found and/or recycled objects. Examples: Use objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc. Use book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch. |
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6) Integrate art vocabulary while planning and creating art. a. Elements of art: line, shape, neutral colors, value, texture. b. Picture compositions: overlapping, background, horizontal, vertical orientation. c. Colors in the color wheel: primary, secondary, warm and cool. |
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Presenting
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Select, Analyze, Share
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7) Collaborate on ways to publicly display artwork based on a theme or concept. |
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8) Explore a variety of ways to prepare artwork for presentation. Examples: gluing artwork on construction paper, creating a name card |
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9) Discuss how art exhibited inside and outside of schools contributes to communities. |
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Responding
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Perceive, Analyze, Interpret
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10) Perceive and describe characteristics of natural and man-made environments. Example: Compare lines on a seashell to lines made by fence posts. |
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11) Categorize images based on expressive properties. |
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12) Interpret art by identifying the mood or feeling suggested by a work of art through subject matter and visual qualities. Examples: Talk about color qualities and composition in Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist. |
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13) Use learned art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork. Example: Use statements as, "I know the texture of the cat is soft from the pencil marks." |
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Connecting
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Interpret
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14) Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life. |
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Synthesize
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15) Compare and contrast cultural uses of artwork from different times and places. Example: Australian Aboriginal dot paintings and Plains Indians pictographs. |