Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Are You Sleeping?

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

K, 1, 2

Overview

Students will measure space and furniture using their feet.  They will analyze Bed (Lit à la Turque) by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard.  At home, students will sketch their bed and measure it with their feet.  In class, the students will compare and contrast the size of their bed with Bed (Lit à la Polonaise).

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

    AE17.VA.K.1

    Engage in self-directed exploration and imaginative play with art materials.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.K.1

    Vocabulary

    • Art
    • Artwork
    • Collaboratively
    • Collage
    • Cool colors
    • Warm colors
    • Elements of Art
      • Color
      • Line
      • Shape
    • Imaginative play
    • Play
    • Portfolio
    • Primary colors
    • Principles of design
      • Pattern
    • Printmaking

    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

    • Create two-dimensional artworks using finger painting, watercolors, paper collage, and rubbings.
    • Create three-dimensional artworks using techniques such as rolling, folding, cutting, molding, pinching, and pulling clay.
    • Work with a partner to create works of art.
    • Working in small groups, use recycled materials to create artworks.
    • Explore the books Why is Blue Dog Blue? by G. Rodrigue and My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss to understand color meanings and moods.
    • Read the book Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman to explore different styles of line.
    • Safely use and share scissors, pencils, crayons, markers, glue, paints, paintbrushes, and clay.
    • Use symbols to help tell a personal or make-believe story.
    • Manipulate art media to create textures and patterns.
    • Identify and use organic and geometric shapes to create works of art.
    • Show respect for self and others while making and viewing art.
    • Use the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) to create a free-style painting while singing the names of the colors.
    • Use patterns in designing colored stripes on the shirt of a person you know.
    • Collect found objects such as paper tubes, forks, and pieces of cardboard. Press them in shallow tempera paint, and stamp them on paper to show printmaking.
    • Create a T-chart that separates cool (blue, green, and purple) and warm (red, yellow, and orange) colors in different columns. Use the symbols of water waves for the cool column header and the sun for the warm column header.
    • Work with a partner to find colors, lines, and shapes in art and tell each other what you see.

    Anchor Standards

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

    AE17.VA.1.2

    Explore and experiment with a range of art materials.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.1.2

    Vocabulary

    • Complementary colors
    • Contrast
    • Curator
    • Elements of Art
      • Texture
    • Landscapes
    • Portrait
    • Positive/ negative space and shape
    • Principles of design
      • Repetition
      • Variety
    • Secondary colors
    • Still life
    • Technique
    • Venue

    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

    • Work with a partner or small group to create an artwork.
    • Use the book Perfect Square by Michael Hall to help "thinking outside the box" skills.
    • Create two-dimensional artworks using a variety of gadgets for printmaking.
    • Use paint media to create paintings of family portraits or a favorite memory.
    • Create three-dimensional artworks such as clay pinch pots or found-object sculptures.
    • View a step-by-step demonstration of an artistic technique.
    • Properly clean and store art materials.
    • Use Mouse Paint book by Helen Walsh to teach color mixing of primary to achieve secondary colors.
    • Create a painting inspired by Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie.
    • Create a "Pop Art" inspired artwork of positive and negative spaces and shapes by using colored paper cut-outs and gluing to different background squares.
    • Make a color wheel and identify the complimentary colors (red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple).
    • Draw different forms in the school environment: cones in the gym, cubes in math center, and sphere used for a globe.
    • Create texture rubbings by placing paper over different surfaces and rubbing with a crayon or oil pastel. Use a rough brick wall, a smooth table, bumpy bubble wrap, or soft felt shapes.
    • Use repetition in art by looking at the designs on a shell or the stripes of a zebra for inspiration.

    Anchor Standards

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

    AE17.VA.1.10

    Select and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.1.10

    Vocabulary

    • Complementary colors
    • Contrast
    • Curator
    • Elements of Art
      • Texture
    • Landscapes
    • Portrait
    • Positive/ negative space and shape
    • Principles of design
      • Repetition
      • Variety
    • Secondary colors
    • Still life
    • Technique
    • Venue

    Essential Questions

    EU: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
    EQ: How do life experiences the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?

    Skills Examples

    • Identify the basic elements of art in a work of art through group discussion.
    • Discuss how people create works of art to communicate ideas and serve different purposes.
    • Investigate how a select work of art was created.
    • Identify elements of art and principles of design in their own artwork and in those of others using art vocabulary.
    • Connect the stories in works of art to the cultures they represent.
    • Compare Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa with Johannes Vermeer's The Girl with the Pearl Earring to identify different uses of the elements of art and principles of design.
    • Compare images that represent the same subject matter.
    • Connect visual stories with literary stories.
    • Share their art-making processes with peers
    • Classify/ group art work by portraits, landscapes and still life.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.2.2

    Explore personal interests and curiosities with a range of art materials.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.2.2

    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 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

    • 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 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.2.14

    Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.2.14

    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: 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?

    Skills Examples

    • Students compare, contrast and discuss how art can reflect artists' personal experiences or interests.
    • Compare materials and techniques in works of art using descriptive language.
    • Identify and share the uses of visual arts outside the classroom.
    • Teacher provides a diverse selection of artworks that represents different times and places for student viewing and discusses subject matter with students.
    • Recognize and respect cultural differences in works of art.
    • Compare and contrast Australian Aboriginal dot painting and Plains Indians pictographs.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
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    The J. Paul Getty Museum
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