Stuffy Creatures!

4th and 5th graders Stuffy Creatures!

National Core Art Standards:

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Enduring Understanding: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.

Essential Question(s):

            1.What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?

            2.What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.

Essential Question(s):

            1. How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it                                important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials,                       tools, and equipment?

            2. What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Enduring Understanding: Through art making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

Essential Question(s):

1. How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives?