7th Grade Learning Goals

Course Description:

Seventh grader art students attend art every other day for one trimester. Projects are based primarily on the principles and elements of art, the state learning results, and the district’s visual arts benchmarks and outcomes. Art elements such as color, line, texture, shape, space, form, and value, are emphasized throughout the school year to help guide the students toward their artistic goals.  In addition, 7th grade art classes explore a number of techniques such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and pottery. Throughout the trimester students will use materials such as oil pastels, clay, pencil, watercolors, and printing ink, and tempera.  In most cases, students will complete the projects listed below:

Clay Unit

Learning Goal: Students will become familiar with the three hand building techniques (slab, coil, pinch), and different means for creating texture in clay. Students will experiment with the slab building method to create lidded pots with relief sculpture designs.

Pastel Landscape

Learning Goal: Students will use color mixing and blending to create a textured, impressionistic style landscape.  Emphasis on color theory.

Relief Printing

Learning Goal: Students will work with concepts such as compositions, and positive and negative space, and color schemes to create a an inked relief print design.