Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Balancing Shapes and Making Them Pop With Color!

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

3

Overview

Students will name colors and identify complementary colors using a color wheel.  They will cut organic and geometric shapes and make a collage.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.  

    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.3.1

    Elaborate on an individual or prompted imaginative idea.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.3.1

    Vocabulary

    • Creativity
    • Criteria
    • Critique
    • Design
    • Media
    • Mixed media
    • Monochromatic
    • Principles of design
      • Rhythm
    • Technology
    • Visual image

    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?

    Skills 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.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.3.2

    Demonstrate skills using available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.3.2

    Vocabulary

    • Creativity
    • Criteria
    • Critique
    • Design
    • Media
    • Mixed media
    • Monochromatic
    • Principles of design
      • Rhythm
    • Technology
    • Visual image

    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?

    Skills 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.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.3.13

    Use learned vocabulary to evaluate artwork based on given criteria.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.3.13

    Vocabulary

    • Creativity
    • Criteria
    • Critique
    • Design
    • Media
    • Mixed media
    • Monochromatic
    • Principles of design
      • Rhythm
    • Technology
    • Visual image

    Essential Questions

    EU: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
    EQ: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?

    Skills Examples

    • Identify the basic elements of art in a work of art through discussion and writing.
    • Observe and compare similar themes in artwork from historical and contemporary eras.
    • Theorize how individuals can have different opinions about works of art.
    • Demonstrate and apply critiques of personal work and the work of others in a positive way.
    • Select an art object and explain reasons why it is a work of art.
    • Use feedback and self-assessment to improve the quality of personal artwork.
    • Discuss the difference between Meret Oppenheim's Object and an everyday cup.
    • Discuss how art can be related to other subject areas.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
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    Lesson/Unit Plan

    Resource Provider

    ArtsEd Washington
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