Lesson Title: Environmentalism
Today
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Enduring Ideas:
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Rationale:
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Sustainability and stewardship
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It is important to make connections
between visual arts and other disciplines. Art helps you express yourself in
a way that very intimate and vulnerable. Art making is a powerful vehicle to
address social justice and a way to sensitively explore a social justice
issue through an art medium.
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Main Lesson
Goal/Objective:
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Students will: Invent an imaginary product that would solve an environmental
issue (food, pollution, trash and consumerism) and make it out of clay from a
sketch (ex: garbage eater)
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Students will: Sketch their designs by hand
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Students will: Create an advertisement for their product that
contains a
picture, explains its purpose, how it works and why it is needed
The
student will know: about different environmental issues such as pollution,
trash, food production, and consumerism
The student will
be able to: demonstrate
understanding of an environmental issue of importance to them through design of an art product with
clay
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Arts Standard(s)
Addressed:
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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): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors
support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage
people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative
process?
5th VA: Cr 1.1.5a Combine ideas to generate an innovative
idea for art-making.
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Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and
work.
Enduring Understanding:
Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts,
media, and art-making approaches
Essential Question(s): How
do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular
direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from
trial and error?
5th VA: 2.1.5a
Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and
approaches through practice.
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Visual Arts
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Color: ✓ Students will use color choice in
their advertisement and painting of environmental product.
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Form: ✓ Students will use form in making their 3D
environmental products in clay
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Space: ✓ Students will use space in the creating of
their 3D environmental products
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Shape: ✓ Students will use shape in the design and
forming of the 3D environmental product
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Line: ✓ Students will use line in their sketch of
their environmental product
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Texture: ✓ Students will use texture in the
clay for their environmental product
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Essential
Questions:
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How might we use art and design to promote a healthy
environment and a sustainable world?
How do artists decide what to make their artwork about? What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors
support creativity and innovative thinking? Etc. See standards for more
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