Unpacked Content
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?
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.
Vocabulary
- Creativity
- Criteria
- Critique
- Design
- Media
- Mixed media
- Monochromatic
- Principles of design
- Rhythm
- Technology
- Visual image
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
