BY GRADE: K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12 BY MEDIUM: Drawing Mixed Media Painting Photography Sculpture BY RELATED SUBJECT: English - Language Arts History - Social Science Mathematics Science Visual & Performing Arts --------------- Lesson Plan Title A-Z Index Lesson Plan Image Bank	Related Subjects Grades     Ansel Adams and the Nature of Expressive Portraiture In this multi-session lesson, students will be introduced to the portraiture work of acclaimed photographer, Ansel Adams. Adams, best known for his black and white landscapes of Yosemite National Park and the California coast, did not confine himself to just one subject area.   Visual & Performing Arts CA Standards 6-8                   The Art of Photo-Collage In this one to two-session lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of photo-collage. Photo-collages allow students to combine different pictures into one new composition.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Lanugage Arts CA Standards 4-8                   Globalization - Cultural Viewpoints of Symbols In this two-session lesson, the students will examine artwork that discusses cultural convergence, and create a mixed-media collage that represents this concept.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts CA Standards 4-6                   Objects as Identity In this one-session lesson, students will use basic one-point perspective to make a perspective drawing of their own room (or an imaginary room) that houses objects of significance to them. As in Rochelle Costi's Quartos, their artwork will include a set number of objects that together are a portrait of the room’s occupant.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Lanugage Arts CA Standards 4-6                   Personal Portraiture In this one to two session lesson, students will combine aspects of composition, vantage points, and text to create a personal portrait expressing thought and emotions. Students will explore selected images while considering the concepts of portraiture and self-portraiture.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Lanugage Arts CA Standards 4-6                   Printmaking for Grades 6-8 In this lesson, the students will create a relief print. The chosen image for this print will be a setting from a novel that played an important role in the plot of the story. The students will conclude this lesson by writing a literature response explaining the importance of the selected setting.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts CA Standards 6-8                   Photography and Vantage Points In this one-session lesson, students will be introduced to Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) and vantage points. Using photographs from a variety of time periods, students will discuss and analyze the subjects, the time period, and photographers’ angles. Students will also record their ideas and reflections.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts CA Standards 4-6                   Photography Portfolio In Session One of this lesson, the students will use their knowledge of photographic vantage points to take photographs for a portfolio. In Session Two, the students will begin to design their portfolios, select photographs, write captions, and write personal narratives or expository artist statements. In Session Three, the students will assemble their portfolios and view their classmates’ work.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Lanugage Arts CA Standards 4-6                   Recycled Sculpture In this one-session lesson, students will use recycled materials to create a sculpture using additive and subtractive processes.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, Science CA Standards 4-6                   Ritual Vessel In this lesson students will use their knowledge of geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of Ancient Civilizations, Medieval, and/or Early Modern Times to create their own ritual vessels out of clay. Students will focus on a particular culture in history based upon the History-Social Science unit recently studied.   Visual & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts CA Standards 6-7                   Sketchy Business In this two-session lesson, the students will identify and describe characteristics of contemporary artwork. Then, they will create gesture drawings, a drawing technique used to express the action of a subject in a short period of time. Visual Art Vocabulary will be introduced and students will be asked to reflect upon and interpret artwork, verbally and in writing.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts CA Standards 4-6                   Sunprints In this one-session lesson, students will be introduced to Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) and will create sunprints. Using photographs from a variety of time periods, students will discuss and analyze the subjects, the time period, and photographers’ angles. Students will also record their ideas and reflections.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts CA Standards 4-6                   Think IT, Draw IT, Make IT In this one-session lesson, students will identify and describe characteristics of minimalist sculpture. Students will then work in groups to create an original minimalist sculpture, using careful written and mathematic documentation.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, Mathematics CA Standards 4-6                   Three Dimensional Portrait In this three-session portrait lesson, students will choose characters from a recently read novel and turn two-dimensional artworks into a three-dimensional portrait that can be viewed in the round.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts CA Standards 6-8                   Time - Art and Permanence In this three-session lesson, the students will use natural and recycled objects arranged in a plastic container to create a gelatin cast of the objects and the negative space around them.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts CA Standards 4-6                   Transforming Space Most people are familiar with artists using traditional materials to paint and sculpt with like oil paint, stone, and clay. However, many contemporary artists have been known to use unconventional art materials. Some artists use everyday objects like toothpicks, pencils, and bottles to create beautiful sculptures. In this one-session lesson, students will use an unconventional material to create installation art. The students will also identify and describe characteristics of contemporary artwork, both verbally and in writing.   Visual & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, Mathematics CA Standards 4-6                   Turning a Room into a Camera Obscura In this one-session lesson, students will turn an ordinary room into a camera obscura.   Visual & Performing Arts, Science CA Standards 4-6                   Visual Thinking Strategies The main purpose of the VTS is to teach students ways to examine and think about works of art and construct meaning from them. In this one-session lesson, students will look at different photographic images and begin to develop a sense of connection to art and build critical and creative thinking skills they can use for the rest of their lives.   English-Language Arts CA Standard K-12
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