AE17.VA.5.3

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.5.3
Communicate personal ideas, images, and themes through artistic choices of media, technique, and subject matter.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

Skills Examples

Use a variety of materials (wood, found objects, wire, paper, clay, etc.) to construct a three-dimensional work of art.
Have students keep journals to reflect on and combine ideas for their works of art.
Draw a still life of students' favorite objects, while adding color with a variety of media (paint, pastels, collage, etc.).
Draw an object or other images (landscapes, hallways, etc.) in linear one-point perspective.
Create tessellations in connection with interdisciplinary subjects such as mathematics.
Write a short story and illustrate the story with original drawings.
Draw and transform two-dimensional shapes into three-dimensional forms.
Write a personal artist statement to accompany an original work of art.
Draw a landscape including foreground, middle ground, and background.
Create an artwork integrating observational and technical skills to solve a problem or address contemporary social issues.
Create a bas-relief by carving into a clay slab.