AE17.VA.2.4

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.2.4
Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for cleaning, utilizing, and maintaining materials, tools, and equipment while making art.

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?

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

COS Examples

Examples: properly using brushes, closing glue bottles and marker tops.

Aligned Learning Resources

Cool and Warm Colors