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Title:

Figures in Action

URL:

http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Third-Grade-Lesson-5.pdf

Content Source:

Other
ArtsEd Washington

Type:

Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

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.

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. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make Essential Questions: EU: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed. EQ: What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process? Concepts & Vocabulary: Creativity Criteria Critique Design Media Mixed media Monochromatic Principles of design Rhythm Technology Visual image Skill Examples: Use a variety of materials to create a three-dimensional mask showing a student's personality. Use torn paper scraps to create rhythm in a landscape. Plan a community/city; then, build a model of it with recyclable materials, such as cardboard, boxes, containers, and tubes. Collaborate with a group to demonstrate how to care for tools used in class (such as paintbrushes). After looking at Vincent van Gogh's painting, Bedroom, create a narrative painting depicting a memory of a student's personal bedroom. Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during the art-making process of two-and-three-dimensional artworks. Collaborate with others to create a work of art that addresses an interdisciplinary theme. Read and explore books like Imagine That by Joyce Raimondo or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland and then create a Surrealistic style artwork. Recognize and identify choices that give meaning to a personal work of art. Create a drawing using monochromatic colors (paint, oil pastels, etc.). Explore individual creativity using a variety of media. Understand what effects different media can have in a work of art.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Visual Arts	2) Demonstrate skills using available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process. Examples: Choose from a variety of resources and materials to create a work of art. Use books Imagine That by Joyce Raymond or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals. EQ: How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations? Concepts & Vocabulary: Creativity Criteria Critique Design Media Mixed media Monochromatic Principles of design Rhythm Technology Visual image Skill Examples: Use a variety of materials to create a three-dimensional mask showing a student's personality. Use torn paper scraps to create rhythm in a landscape. Plan a community/city; then, build a model of it with recyclable materials, such as cardboard, boxes, containers, and tubes. Collaborate with a group to demonstrate how to care for tools used in class (such as paintbrushes). After looking at Vincent van Gogh's painting, Bedroom, create a narrative painting depicting a memory of a student's personal bedroom. Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during the art-making process of two-and-three-dimensional artworks. Collaborate with others to create a work of art that addresses an interdisciplinary theme. Read and explore books like Imagine That by Joyce Raimondo or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland and then create a Surrealistic style artwork. Recognize and identify choices that give meaning to a personal work of art. Create a drawing using monochromatic colors (paint, oil pastels, etc.). Explore individual creativity using a variety of media. Understand what effects different media can have in a work of art.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Visual Arts	5) Individually or collaboratively construct representations of places that are part of everyday life. Examples: Create a two-dimensional or three-dimensional model of school, home, bedroom, or neighborhood. View and discuss Van Gogh's Bedroom. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Reflect, Refine, Continue Essential Questions: EU: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives. EQ: How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate? Concepts & Vocabulary: Creativity Criteria Critique Design Media Mixed media Monochromatic Principles of design Rhythm Technology Visual image Skill Examples: Use a variety of materials to create a three-dimensional mask showing a student's personality. Use torn paper scraps to create rhythm in a landscape. Plan a community/city; then, build a model of it with recyclable materials, such as cardboard, boxes, containers, and tubes. Collaborate with a group to demonstrate how to care for tools used in class (such as paintbrushes). After looking at Vincent van Gogh's painting, Bedroom, create a narrative painting depicting a memory of a student's personal bedroom. Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during the art-making process of two-and-three-dimensional artworks. Collaborate with others to create a work of art that addresses an interdisciplinary theme. Read and explore books like Imagine That by Joyce Raimondo or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland and then create a Surrealistic style artwork. Recognize and identify choices that give meaning to a personal work of art. Create a drawing using monochromatic colors (paint, oil pastels, etc.). Explore individual creativity using a variety of media. Understand what effects different media can have in a work of art.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Visual Arts	14) Create works of art based on observations of surroundings. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Connecting Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences. Process Components: Interpret Essential Questions: EU: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences. EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking? Concepts & Vocabulary: Creativity Criteria Critique Design Media Mixed media Monochromatic Principles of design Rhythm Technology Visual image Skill Examples: Discuss how art can be used to express ideas in poems and short stories. Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras. Discuss the relationships between the elements of art. Use historical and cultural artworks to answer questions about daily life. Discuss how we encounter art and artists in everyday life.

Tags:

3D, drawing, gesture, sculpture, wire

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This lesson uses sketches from a previous lesson.

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Figures in Action