Yemina Huerta Debora Gonzalez 11/29/2012 Five Drawing Activities K-2: Shapes as elements Students will learn four

of the basic geometrical shapes which are triangle, rectangle, square, and circle. They will use all of these shapes to create a house the house must have two windows, one door, a pointy roof, a front yard with a tree and some flowers, they can add a fence if wanted. All drawings are not required to look the same, students must use creativity. Students will be given markers, colored pencils, drawing pencils, erasers, and newsprint paper to make their work. 3-5: Line, the element Students will learn about line and how to draw different kinds of lines, like scribbles, zigzags, waves, etc. Students then will do Zen tangles, they will be given a triangular card stock paper and will divided in to three parts, they will draw one kind of line in each box of the triangle each box must be completely filled with lines, this means lines are going to be repeated. Students will use markers, however must pick one color for each box. When finished they will placed their works outside the classroom. 6-8: Gridding Students will learn how to use a grid when drawing. The whole class will agree in choosing a famous drawing which will be drawn by the whole class. Teacher will grid the image, will cut it, and will give a piece to the students. Every student must draw their part and should add texture, value, and shade to their drawing. They will be given materials such as drawing pencils, sharpeners, erasers, kneaded erasers, blending stump, copy paper, and a piece of cardboard to

Yemina Huerta Debora Gonzalez 11/29/2012 their final drawings. At the end they will put together their work and will place it in the wall, they will tell their experiences before and after the piece is done. 9-12: Foreshortening Students will get introduced to foreshortening. They will go outside the classroom pick a partner and draw them in five different sketches with a foreshortening view. They must picked their favorite pose and draw it in a piece of white cardboard (they can always take picture of the posse they chose so they can work on it through the weekend). Students must add value, shade, and texture to their drawings. They will use charcoal and pen to work. They will present their pieces to the whole class and as a whole group will discuss it. 9-12: Ratios of portraits Students will learn on how to draw the human body in good proportion meaning no arms longer than legs or eyes placed in the eyebrows and eyebrows placed on the forehead. Students will be given samples of a human body and its dimensions; they will practice on drawing this five times. After done, students will draw directly from a mannequin and will do three to four sketches, when they think they are ready they will choose a partner and will draw him or her they will draw directly from them but they can take a picture so they can have reference to what they are drawing and also to not forget the pose they are doing. Aside from graphic pencils, students material options will be charcoal, drawing ink, or pen, they will draw on a Strathmore paper. After done they will discuss their work with the whole class and with they teacher.