AE17.VA.1.4

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 1 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.1.4

Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.

COS Examples
Example: Show the students how to properly store the brush.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?

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.