2nd grade

identity

Unit Name: Exploring identity and community through art

Description of the unit: StudeNts will learn about themselves and others as they explore LINE, SHAPE, COLOR and COLLAGE AND Collaborative Art processES



STAGE 1-DESIRED RESULTS

competencies/Standards: 2nd grade

What are the CCSS standards/content standards/learning progressions?

CREATING

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

  • VA:Cr1.1.2a—Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem.

  • VA:Cr1.2.2a—Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.

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

  • VA:Cr2.1.2a—Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.

  • VA:Cr2.2.2a—Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.

  • VA:Cr2.3.2a—Repurpose objects to make something new.

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

  • VA:Cr3.1.2a—Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.

PRESENTING/PRODUCING

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret work for presentation.

  • VA:Pr4.1.2a—Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

  • VA:Pr5.1.2a—Distinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation.

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

  • VA:Pr6.1.2a—Analyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contributes to communities.

RESPONDING

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze work.

  • VA:Re.7.1.2a—Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.

  • VA:Re.7.2.2a—Categorize images based on expressive properties.

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

  • VA:Re8.1.2a—Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form.

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

  • VA:Re9.1.2a—Use learned art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork.

CONNECTING

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

  • VA:Cn10.1.2a—Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life.

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

  • VA:Cn11.1.2a—Compare and contrast cultural uses of artwork from different times and places.

MEANING

Understandings: (U)

What kinds of long term independent accomplishmnets are expected?

Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge and experiences.

Color choices can impact both the appearance and meaning of an artwork.

Sometimes artists work together to share ideas, solve creative problems and create community artworks.

Each person is a unique individual with their own ideas and experiences which can be communicated though personal artwork.

Artists find inspiration and ideas from many sources.

Essential Questions: (Q)

How will these questions provoke and engage student's thinking?

What can we learn about ourselves through our responses to art?

How do personal life experiences influence the way one relates to art?

Where do artists find sources of inspiration?

How do artists use the color wheel to choose a palette for their artwork?

Why do artists collaborate?

How can artists collaborate successfully?

What role does art play in everyday life?

STUDENTS WILL KNOW...

(KNOWLEDGE) NOUN PHRASES

The difference between geometric and organic shapes.

Lines create shapes and shapes create compositions.

How to mix secondary colors.

How to use tools in a safe and responsible manner.

How use shape, line and color to create personal artworks.

How to identify analogous and complimentary color schemes.

In order to collaborate on an artwork, everyone involved must cooperate, communicate and listen to each other's ideas.

How to look at real objects to represent them in an artwork.

STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO...

(SKILLS) VERB PHRASES

Create artwork by observing their surroundings.

Use color to communicate ideas and experiences.

Experiment with various materials, tools and techniques to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.

Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.

Explore a personal interest or question by using various materials, tools and techniques.

Brainstorm potential ideas for creating artwork.

Successfully collaborate on an artwork.

Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.

Build skills by experimenting in various media and approaches to art-making.

Use art vocabulary to describe shapes and colors.

Collaborate by incorporating individual steps in a process toward a common idea.


STAGE 2-ASSESSMENT/OTHER EVIDENCE

PERFORMANCE TASK: (T)

HOW WILL MEANING MAKING AND TRANSFERABLE SKILLS BE DEMONSTRATED? DOK 3-4


OTHER EVIDENCE: (OE)

WHAT TASKS/ACTIVITIES DETERMINE WHETHER DESIRED RESULTS ARE BEING ACCOMPLISHED? DOK 1-2


STAGE 3-LEARNING PLAN

UNIT VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY

  • Palette

  • Hue

  • Primary and Secondary Colors

  • Complimentary Colors

  • Analogous Colors

  • Geometric and Organic Shapes

  • Still Life

  • Observation

  • Contrast

  • Positive and Negative Shapes

  • Collage

  • Collaborate

SUGGESTED ARTISTS

  • Henri Matisse

  • Impressionist Artists: Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt

  • Frida Kahlo

  • MC Escher

  • Janet Fish

  • Paul Cezanne

  • Georgia O'Keeffe

  • Horrace Pippin

HOOK:

Students collaborate on Art Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQC_I1GhuLg



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