Classroom Resource

Shapes to Represent Objects

Subject Area

Mathematics
Arts Education

Grade(s)

2

Overview

Students will name basic shapes seen in art and in tools. They will choose a tool and draw and connect shapes to form the object.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF. 

Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 2

MA19.2.25

Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

Unpacked Content

UP:MA19.2.25

Vocabulary

  • Attributes

Knowledge

Students know:
  • defining characteristics of basic shapes (triangles, rectangles, squares, circles).

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
  • recognize shapes with specified attributes.
  • draw shapes having specified attributes.
  • determine shapes based on their attributes.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • shapes may be sorted by many sets of attributes, but their geometric classification is based on certain defining attributes.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.2.3

Extend skills by individually following sequential steps to create works of art on subjects that are real or imaginary.

Unpacked Content

UP:AE17.VA.2.3

Vocabulary

  • Principles of design
    • Balance
  • Brainstorming
  • Composition
  • Concepts
  • Characteristic
  • Elements of art
    • Space
    • Value
  • Expressive properties
  • Foreground
  • Middle ground
  • Neutral colors
  • Resist

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

Skills Examples

  • Create two-dimensional artworks such as drawing or painting by using a variety of media.
  • Use the book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L.
    • Blood & Martin Link to learn about weaving.
  • Use clay or pipe cleaners to create small animal sculptures.
  • Work in groups to brainstorm ideas for a collaborative art project.
  • Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor to study Native Americans and their traditions.
  • Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle to explore collage techniques.
  • Create a real or imagined home using two-and-three-dimensional media.
  • Learn how to properly use and store brushes, close glue bottles and marker tops.
  • Use found objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc.
    • to create artworks.
  • Use the book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch to explore different colors and values.
  • Create a landscape showing depth by placing the foreground, middle ground and background in their correct positions.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Link to Resource
http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Second-Grade-…

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

Other

Resource Provider other

ArtsEd Washington
Accessibility
License

License Type

CUSTOM

Custom License Type (URL)

http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Protocol-Guid…

Approved Date

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