AE17.VA.1.1

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

AE17.VA.1.1

Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with art materials.

COS Examples
Examples: Work with partner or small group to create an artwork. Use the book Perfect Square by Michael Hall to help thinking outside the box“ skills.“

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?

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.