______Meghan De Groodt___________
_____Richard Mayberry____________
______Megan Stevenson____________
Big Idea*:Life
Grade Level*:3
National Core Art Standards: Visual Arts (grades 1-6 only) (4): Please
list number and description of Anchor Standard.
1. Creating: 3rd VA:Cr1.1.3a Elaborate visual information by adding
details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.
2. Presenting: 3rd VA:Pr6.1.3a Identify and explain how and where
different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life
through art.
3. Responding: 3rd VA:Re.7.2.3a Determine messages communicated
by an image.
4. Connecting: 3rd VA:Cn10.1.3a Develop a work of art based on
observations of surroundings
California Visual and Performing Arts Standards (grades 1-6 only) (3-5):
Please check all that apply and add number and description of
applicable content standard.
___1.0 Artistic Perception:
_X_2.0 Creative Expression: 2.1 Explore ideas for art in a personal
sketchbook.
___3.0 Historical & Cultural Context:
_X_4.0 Aesthetic Valuing:4.1 Compare and contrast selected works of
art and describe them, using appropriate vocabulary of art.
_X_5.0 Connections, Relationships, Applications:5.3 Look at images in
figurative works of art and predict what might happen next, telling
what clues in the work support their ideas.
List all materials needed in the columns below.
Identify & define vocabulary that connect the art form with the
other identified content areas*:
1. surrealism:a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and
literature that sought to release the creative potential of the
unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of
images.
2. Life:the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from
inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction,
functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
3. Solar system: the collection of eight planets and their moons in
orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of
asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
4. Planet:a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
Lesson Activities & Procedures (please be very specific)*:
1. Set presentation up
2. Set materials on tables
3. Do presentation
4. Demonstration of studio (Megan)
5. Return to table. Have one person at each table grab materials
6. Pick either a white or black piece of paper.
7. Begin by drawing your ideal planet
8. Now add life to your planet (What does your planet need to
survive?)
9. Add any additional materials that you want.
10.Lastly, name your planet and main life form on your planet.
11.Leave artwork on the table
12.Take the 5 tokens and start to look at other artists work
13.Hand out the tokens.
Purchase
Demonstrate other artist art work and pictures of our solar system.
Reflect on tokens and have artist raise their works if they had more
then 2.
Token system.