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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
- 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.
