AE17.VA.3.1

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.3.1
Elaborate on an individual or prompted imaginative idea.

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

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.

COS Examples

Examples: Create an imaginative mask showing his/her personality. Look at masks from different cultures such as Chinese, African and Native American.