UNIT 12: International Fair

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(s) and MATERIALS:

Essential Questions:

What is an international fair?
What is the purpose of the international fair?
What can we learn about a culture through its art forms?
Why should we study other cultures and what does it teach us?

Materials:

IPad
Pencil
Eraser
Paper
GridTool Website
Grid Image of your photo

STANDARDS

STANDARDS:

7th GRADE

Creating:

1.1 Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.

2.1 Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.

2.3 Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.

3.0 Reflect on and explain important information about personal artist statement or another format.

Responding:

7.1 Explain how the method of display, the location, and the experience of an artwork influence how it is perceived and valued.

8th GRADE

Creating:

1.1 Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or contemporary media.

2.1 Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

2.3 Select, organize and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations.

3.0 Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.

Responding:

7.1 Explain how a person's aesthetic choices are influenced by culture, environment, and personal experiences . which impacts the message it conveys to others.

OBJECTIVE(S)

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

Students will learn about the purpose of the international fair by celebrating the cultural traits that are shared and makes people unique.
Students will learn more about a culture by creating and designing a display board that demonstrates information about the country or state.
Students will research information about an artist from a specific country or state. Students will replicate some of the artist's most famous pieces.

KEY TERMS

KEY TERMS:

International Fair:
- The International Fair is a celebration of the many cultures in our society. The purpose of the international fair is to encourage you to learn about other cultures around the world, to celebrate what makes us all unique, and to recognize cultural traits that we share.
Researcher:
- The systematic use of the artistic process, the actual making of artistic expressions in all of the different forms of the arts, as a primary way of understanding and examining experience by both researchers and the people that they involve in their studies.
Curator:
- The job entails being responsible for a museum's collection, selecting art to be displayed in a museum, organizing art exhibitions in galleries or public spaces, researching artists, and producing the written material.
Culture:
- The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
Identity:
- Is the way in which we perceive and express ourselves.

PROJECT DIRECTIONS

DIRECTIONS:

In a group of four, you and your partners will create a well-organized and decorated display board and artwork. Please make sure that you check off all of the items that is required for each role that I have provided for you. Make sure you use your time wisely in order to complete this project on time.