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?
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
- 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 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
