unit plan 1

Josh Disney
Grade Lvl 1-5 Grade
Unit One: Art Is Everywhere
Content Area:
Senses/ perception
Look and Compare
Line/Shape/Color/ texture/ value
Balance/ pattern/ variety/ proportions/ emphasis
Representation
Artist Work
Portfolio Project

Goals/Content Cognitive
Students will be able to communicate to others what they see or have seen. Using language, paint or other mediums, students will be able to communicate intended meanings to others. Students will gain an understanding of common terms and techniques. Students will experience producing a work of art.
Students will know what lines/ shapes / colors are and how to describe them.
Students will be able to objectively look at a work of art and describe what they see.
Students will be able to look at a work and think about it from different perspectives.
State standards that will be addressed:
Art projects will promote, support and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. Students will be faced with problems that will make a need for them to explore the real world , their perception and resources available to them. Students will also have to engage each other, family and friends to gain a better understanding of what they have seen, hear, perceived, and read. Dialog with students will offer the opportunity for students to become self aware. Teaching them how they can gain control of their own learning.
This unit will cover every relevant state standard.
For the Technology Content Standard
Self awareness and becoming aware of different avenues of gaining experiences will provide students the opportunity to better understand and analyze their world. Students will be shown that you have multiple avenues of gaining information on desired subjects of interest. The internet should be accessible, books, magazines, museums, art on the wall and inspiration from each other providing the students a chance to reference and cross reference infromation. Discussions and Dialog in and out of class will also promote learning. Discussion will lead to understanding different views and how to identify accuracy.
Why would students care about this topic?
Students will care about this topic because it engages them. Being aware of what is around one’s self provides an understanding of who we are and who we choose to be and become. Students will also learn how to communicate this to other visually in addition to writing and speach. Students will also enjoy the class because it is fun.
How will students be assessed?
Students will produce representation drawing. Students will also have critiques and be able to discuss different aspects of works of art. Students will describe what they have done, how they came to the conclusion of how to do it, and what was successful and what was not. Technology can support and enhance assessment by providing the ability for students to critique master’s works before critiquing their own.
Learning Connections
Students will need to come to class with the ability to use their senses. They will need to have a desire think. Students will encounter difficulties if they can only see the world in black and white (metaphorically not colorblindness). If students must be told step by step instructions without any mental impute of their own, this class will be a struggle for them. Even with the struggle of having to learn to problem solve on one’s own this class will teach students the basics of line, shape, color, perception and thought, which will providing a strong foundation for any further classes.
Learning Activities or Tasks
Students will describe what they see around them. Students will describe events that had emotions attached. Students will be shown different colors, shapes and types of lines. Students will then create their own colors shapes and lines. Leading students up to the point of creating a representational drawing using the lines shapes and colors they have learned. Within a sketch book students will draw and describe what they have seen and perceived in the world around them. Slide shows and PowerPoint presentations will provide the possibility for mass diversity of events for students to whiteness.
Teaching Strategies
During this unit all of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences will be utilized to immerse the students in an environment where they are exposed, process, and utilized; topics, techniques, and terminology they have learned throughout the unit. As a teacher I will provide examples, thought provoking questions, ideas of techniques to use and the possibilities to become successful.
Management?
During class time students will be in the classroom unless the opportunity presents its self for the class to go out on the playground and sketch what we see. Dependent on the environment the work the students produce will either be industrial interiors/ and people or if they have the opportunity to go outside it may include nature, people, architecture, and anything else they may be exposed to outside.
Each student will view the world differently and will convey what they have experienced differently. Dependent on the student and their work different thought provoking questions must be proposed, leading to students gaining an understanding of the basics of art and perception.
Technology will provide classroom management be it the lone tree on the playground that every student will want to sit by. PowerPoint slide shows or images they can pull up on a computer all life enriching methods or opportunities to exploit resources will promote keeping the students together and focused.
Materials and Resources:
Students
something to write or draw on and a utensil to do so.
Students will only use APA if they so choose to cite a work of art they have created due to being inspired by said source.