Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson
Title/Focus

Painted paper turtles

Date

November 05, 2014

Subject/Gra
de Level

Health/ Art: Grade one

Time
Duratio
n

1 hour

Unit

Identity & Equality / Expression

Teacher

Angela McPeake

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:

Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

Health:
Students will make responsible and informed choices to maintain health and to
promote safety for self and others.
Art: Expression: Component 10(i)
Students will decorate items personally created.
Health:
identify physical characteristics that make themselves both similar to and
different from others
Art: Purpose (1):
Use drawing tools to make a variety of shapesopen, closed forms; straight,
curved forms; geometric (rectangles, squares, circles and triangles) and free
form.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Interpret the idea of individuality and equality in the book Yurtle the Turtle
2. Learn and apply tracing motor skills
3. Demonstrate creative thinking to make unique works
4. Apply painting skills

ASSESSMENTS

Observations:

Key Questions:

Products/Performan
ces:

Students respond as a group to identify the important ideas of the

book; Equality and individuality.
Circulate classroom to observe students motor skills in tracing

Observe students ability to construct the pieces

Examine the variation of ideas used by students to make the turtles
unique
Challenge students ability to mix secondary colors
What is equality? What is individuality?
Why is equality important? How do you relate this to the turtles?
Is everyone different? And is that okay?
How do we trace?
How do we make secondary colors?
Are all the turtles different?
Students will construct unique painted-paper turtles and utilize
tracing and painting skills.

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta health and life skills curriculum guide:
http://education.alberta.ca/media/313382/health.pd
f
Alberta art curriculum:
http://education.alberta.ca/media/312998/elemart.p
df
Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

BOOK: Yurtle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
Turtle tracing pieces (one big circle, four
small circles, tail piece, and head)
Red, blue, yellow, white, and black acrylic
paint
Paint brushes and paint trays
Card stock for students, blue for water, white

YouTube: Yurtle the Turtle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFfbSWbLWw

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

for turtle
Pencils and erasers
Sharpie markers(optional)
Water washing cups
Google eyes

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Assessment of
Prior Knowledge

Expectations for
Learning and
Behaviour
Advance
Organizer/Agenda

Transition to Body
Learning Activity
#1

Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Learning Activity
#2

Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Learning Activity
#3
Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Have tracing shapes ready, paint on trays, paper ready for handout
Introduction
Time
Turtle exemplar pictures on the board
2:30PM
Does anyone know what equality means?
What does it mean to be individual? Or unique
2 MINS
Do we remember how to make our secondary colors?
Light and dark shades?
Students will be quite during book reading, and on task with the
art project while being respectful of the materials
1. Prepare materials before class
2. Read Yurtle the turtle book
3. Demonstrate how to trace the circles
4. How to put the turtle together
5. Clean up
Students are individually called to the carpet corner
Body
Yurtle the Turtle book by Dr. Seuss
READ the book and discuss equality and individuality
Have students look at the different turtle shells

Time
10 MINS

Do students know what equality and individuality mean?

Have you seen different types of turtles? What do they
look like? Can there be imaginary turtles?

Making painted paper turtles

Demonstrate how to trace: dont press too hard, always
use pencil, you my use a partner if your having a hard
time holding your paper
Step 2, paint, mix all the colors, be creative
Add sharpie if you wish
Create the water background
Cut the turtle pieces
Glue the turtle pieces to the background
Attach google eyes
Clean up.
Circulate classroom
Are student coordinating to trace the pieces
Are students applying individual ideas, or are they
copying the exemplars?
Are students experimenting with paint colors?
Gallery Walk
Students will put their paintings on the whiteboard so they can
do a gallery walk.

30 MINS

10 MINS

Encourage students to pick out the similarities and differences

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

of the turtle works
Consolidation of
Learning:
Feedback From
Students:
Feedback To
Students
Transition To Next
Lesson

Sponge
Activity/Activities

Closure
Do all the turtles look different ? is that okay? Is that similar to
all the students in the class?
What are some good qualities you can pick out in your
classmates work?

Time
5 MINS

Good work all you artists!

Remember how you mixed your perfect green paint colors
because you might need to make them again for our social and
science project making the environment!

Yurtle the Turtle YouTube movie

Another Dr. Seuss story from the book

Reflections from the

lesson

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe