Klimt Lesson: K-2

lesson example

Lesson Plan

Morgan Hughes

Drawing

Grade K-2

Aim:  Students will draw patterns using color pencils

Objectives

To create a drawing using shapes to create patterns.  To compare/contrast two works of Klimt.  To be able to draw shapes and recognize patterns, while being creative.  Understanding what an organic shape is.

Materials

Large paper (at least 16x20), pencils, colored pencils, bottle caps (approx. 2 inches in diameter), and rulers

Motivation 

What shapes are found in Klimt’s artworks?

Where on the page are their shapes located?  (background/foreground/within another form)

What kind of shapes does he make?

What does this form look like?

What is a pattern?

Presentation of Content

Teacher will ask questions:

                Who can show me circles around the room?

                Who can show me squares?

                Who can identify rectangles?

                Who can identify any kind of patterns in the classroom?

Teacher will demonstrate:

                -How to draw lines every two inches on the paper vertically and horizontally with a ruler,  creating a grid of squares throughout   the   page.

                -Ask a student to volunteer to come to the front of the room.

                -You then trace the top part of their head, torso or a part of their body on the paper with a pencil. They can lie down or stand up against a wall.

                -Within the body form you traced begin to trace bottle caps, forming circles in the various grid squares. 

                -Draw shape freehand or using ruler

                -Draw shapes within shapes

                -Color in the shapes to form various shapes

                -In each square begin to draw shapes to create a pattern using those shapes in each grid square.

                -Finally, erase the grid on the outside of the body form and color in a solid background.

Assessment and Evaluation

Teacher will assign a partner for each student to trace another student’s body part.

Teacher will walk around room holding up examples of work that shows variation in shapes and patterns.

Did students follow directions in creating artwork?

Teacher will show students work that depicts various color choices

Possible Extensions

Students will continue to work on projects developing patterns through shape such as pattern making, example: African Textiles, different quilts.            

NYC Strands of Arts Learning:

I. Arts Making  

II.  Literacy in the Arts 

III.  Making Connections

V.  Careers and Lifelong Learning