Students study examples of lettering art and through the lenses of graffiti and graphic design. Students begin to understand the multiple contexts in which text, lettering, and word art make their way into the arts. Students will create a self-expressive piece of lettering art/design that utilizes stylized type and additional graphic elements like icons, symbols, and stylized backgrounds.

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Students are introduced to color terms, color relationships, and color mixing. Students begin by building an understanding of primary colors, then mixing secondary colors. Students understand how they relate, then use this basic knowledge to explore color schemes more independently. Students begin to practice categorizing colors by relationship on the color wheel (complementary colors, analogous colors, warm/cool colors), then assemble groups of colors by personal preference.

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Students are introduced to the concept of kinetic or moving artwork. Students observe multiple pieces of artwork in motion and discuss the component of time-based artwork. Students are given a variety of materials to create functioning mobile sculptures. Project time may include sketching concepts for a mobile, playing with materials to understand the function of these mobile sculptures (balance, suspension, motion, etc...), construction, and collaboration.

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Students will participate in a lesson that reviews some of the basic techniques of hand building with clay. Covered during this lesson are scoring with slip, the pinch method, and the creation of texture through the use of a variety of conventional clay building tools and other unique odds and ends. Students are challenged to create a clay piece/pieces of their choice while demonstrate these clay building techniques.

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Students will write, type, construct, and illustrate an original children's storybook. This inter-curricular project challenges students to engage and persist through a complex project with a variety of tasks. Students develop and refine aspects of the book between the language arts, visual arts, and computer applications until the product is finalized. Students bind and illustrate their books in the art classroom, then create an accompanying sculpture that represent the main character(s) in their books.

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