Instructional Unit Seven

Goal:  Visual Communication and Production

Objective:

2.5       The student will create a still life work of art using inanimate objects as a visual.

State Core SOL Correlation: None

Instructional Strategies:

Set up a still life arrangement in clear view of all the students. Discuss the difference between animate and inanimate objects.  Demonstrate how to draw the objects, discussing such words as shape, form, and shadow.  Include vocabulary:  still life, inanimate, shape, form and shadow.

Suggested Student Activities:

1.  Paint shapes from a still life, using inanimate objects such as a collection of balls, plastic trucks, etc.

2.  Draw a stuffed animal from a still life setting.

Assessment:

The student will be assessed based upon their ability to create a work of art from a still life through:

            1.  identifying inanimate objects.

            2.  creating art work based on these objects.

3.       displaying student work.

Instructional Unit Eight     lupl

Goal:  Visual Communication and Production

Objective:

2.6        The student will depict objects in proportion within a work of art.

            State Core SOL Correlation: None

Instructional Strategies:

Show examples of various artworks and discuss size and proportion.  Point out objects in the foreground, middle ground and background.  Discuss how these objects vary in size, color, placement and detail.

Suggested Student Activities:

1.  Draw a face with features in the correct proportion (Unit 2, Lesson 5, page 26).

            2.  Create an island treasure map using the correct proportions.

3.  Draw and color a desert scene depicting the cacti in proportion showing  near and far.

Assessment:

The students will be assessed through their ability to create objects in proportion within their artwork by:

            1.  recognizing size relationships.

            2.  creating a work of art using their knowledge of proportion.

            3.  displaying student work.

 

Instructional Unit Nine        lupl

Goal:  Visual Communication and Production

Objective:

2.7        The student will collaborate with others to create a work of art.

State Core SOL Correlation: English 2.2, Math 2.13, 2.14, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20, Science 2.1

Math SOL   Science SOL   English SOL   History – Social Science SOL

Instructional Strategies:

Discuss the importance of cooperation when working in groups, and the necessity of sharing and conserving materials, taking turns, and in contributing a part to a whole as in creating group murals or making sets, costumes and props for plays.  Divide the class into three or four small groups.  Have each group choose a theme and then paint a mural dealing with that theme.   Allow the students to make the decisions concerning the production of the mural (Unit 5, Lesson 13, pages 84 and 97).

Suggested Student Activities:

1.  Create the scenery for a play in Language Arts class.  Props and costumes may be added.
2.  Create a life size Egyptian sarcophagus using roll paper, paint, and markers.
3.  Create a large-scale Native American tepee.
4.  Create a sectional mural where student cut-outs contribute to a large piece   (ex. flower shapes, city buildings, Egyptian figures, etc).

Assessment:

The students will be assessed on their ability to work cooperatively in a group situation through:

            1.  contributing to a group activity.

            2.  displaying work.

 

Page 1 - Unit One (SOL 2.1) * Unit Two (SOL 2.2) * Unit Three (SOL 2.3-1)
Page 2 - Unit Four (SOL 2.3-2) * Unit Five (SOL 2.3-3) * Unit Six (SOL 2.4)
Page 3 - Unit Seven (SOL 2.5) * Unit Eight (SOL 2.6) * Unit Nine (SOL 2.7)
Page 4 - Unit Ten (SOL 2.8) * Unit Eleven (SOL 2.9) * Unit Twelve (SOL 2.10)
Page 5 - Unit Thirteen (SOL 2.11,12,13,19) * Unit Fourteen (SOL 2.15) * Unit Fifteen (SOL 2.16)
Page 6 - Unit Sixteen (SOL 2.17) * Unit Seventeen (SOL 2.18) * Unit Eighteen (SOL 2.25RC)
Page 7 - Unit Nineteen (SOL 2.3-2) * Unit Twenty (SOL 2.3-3) * Unit Twenty-One (SOL 2.4)

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