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ELEMENTARY LESSON PLANS

 

Submitted by Renee Baxter, Wake County Schools

Lesson Title:
Artist Research Poster and Red Wolf Rendering

Grade Level or Course:
Fifth Grade

Time Allotment:
3 (45 minute) lessons for the product
2 (45 minute) lessons for the artist research

Targeted Goals and Objectives from the 2000 North Carolina Arts Education Standard Course of Study and Grade Level Competencies, K-12:

1.01 - Use the imagination as a source for symbolic expression.
3.04 - Use variations to create interest in a composition.
3.06 - Recognize the validity of one's feelings and impressions when solving visual problems.
4.01 -Compare and contrast the works of various artists' styles and cultures.
5.01 -Begin to recognize that art is the visual record of the history of mankind.
5.04 - Compare art of one culture to that of another culture or time.
5.05 - Recognize selected individual style characteristics of an artist.
5.06 - Compare and contrast selected major artists and artwork.
6.01 - Respond to questions relating to purpose and appropriateness of works including: why do you think this artist painted this way or how do the materials the artist used to help get across the idea of the artwork?
6.02 - Critique artwork in relation to design principles: emphasis, movement, repetition, space, balance, value and unity.

Targeted Goals and Objectives from the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and Grade
Level Competencies, K-12 for other content areas.

Science: Determine the function of organisms within the population of the ecosystem: producers, consumers, and decomposers.
English: Increase reading and writing vocabulary through: wide reading, word study, word reference materials, content area study, writing process elements, writing as a tool, debate, discussions, seminars, examining the author's craft.
Guidance: Demonstrate cooperation by groups.

 

Lesson Objective(s):

As part of their study, students will choose an artist to research. They will research in pairs. Students will learn the history and time period of their artist and then create a research poster with given criteria. Students will use colored pencils to render an artists work on their own template of the wolf. A rubric will be used to assess the students' product of the wolf. A checklist will be used for the students research project (see attachment).

Materials/Equipment Needed:

Colored Pencils, 12x18 white drawing paper, Sketch Paper, Pencils, Books and Prints to aid students, Internet access, List of artists to choose from, Partner list, Criteria checklist required for the research report, rubric for the wolf product

 

Lesson Procedure:

Lesson 1 (45 minutes)

  1. Inform students that they will become famous artists. They will be researching and creating their own reproduction of an artist. The students will be given a list of artists to choose from and then they will be put into pairs. Together they will have to pick their top three choices and then they will be assigned an artist to research. (Appropriate books will be chosen to aid them in the report.) They will also use resources from the library and Internet.

  2. The teacher will give out copies of the criteria that need to be completed for the artist research project. Modeling will be done for the research project. Students may be creative with this project as long as all of the information is accounted for. The teacher will show an example of the project. After the information about the project is given out, the students will have access to materials that they will need and they may get started. Monitoring will continue throughout the class.

  3. Inform the students that when they return they will be continuing the research of their artist. The checklist must be completed.(By the teacher)

Lesson 2 (45 minutes)

  1. Students will get back into their pairs. Review of the research project will take place and then monitored research will begin. As the students work today they will be looking for an artwork that they would like to reproduce using colored pencils.

  2. Time will be provided during this class be for research and poster production.

  3. At the end of the class the research and poster will be completed. A reproduction will be chose to be rendered. Lastly, the teacher will complete rubric.

Lesson 3 (45 minutes)

  1. Students will begin their product by sketching a wolf at least as big as a 9x12 piece of paper. They may sketch the whole wolf using any angle or they may draw a large wolf head to put their rendering into.

  2. Students will have the picture of their reproduction in front of them and they will recreate the whole print or they may use just a portion of it. The teacher will model this process.

  3. Students will clean up and they will continue with this process the time.

Lesson 4 (45 minutes)

  1. The creative process will continue for at least two more class periods

Special Considerations:

This lesson will be completed after students have learned about the wolves using guiding practices. Students should be familiar with using colored pencils, and the principles of design. Teachers can create their own list of artists based on their study of different artists and time periods. During the lesson I will group students together, you may create the grouping, as you feel necessary. This lesson may take more time depending on the abilities of students, your resources and the size of the class.

 

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