Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
Skills Examples
- Discuss why student artwork has value and should be displayed.
- Collect favorite selections of original artwork to present during parent conferences.
- Choose artwork for public display, such as in a hallway, office, or gymnasium.
- Choose particular artworks from among those created over the course of the school year and tell how the collection shows what was learned.
- Create a portfolio folder with comments describing purpose or process of each piece of art.
- View different art publications and/or museums via the Internet.
- Engage in a virtual field study by viewing an art museum's website or virtual museum.
- Visit a museum on a field trip.
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
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
