Unpacked Content
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?
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.
Vocabulary
- Principles of design
- Balance
- Brainstorming
- Composition
- Concepts
- Characteristic
- Elements of art
- Space
- Value
- Expressive properties
- Foreground
- Middle ground
- Neutral colors
- Resist
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
