Lowell Elementary ART! Community

Unit Title: Community

Enduring Ideas: Family, Culture, Community

Rationale: 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. 

Key Concepts about the Enduring Idea: How to reflect on one’s own family, community, culture!

Key Concepts about Art/Visual Culture: How can art and visual culture affect people’s actions/perspective towards community

Unit Objectives: Students will develop understanding of a community through making a community tree, community map, and community documentary.

National, State, or Local Standards: 

1) Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines Students a. compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context b. describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school! are interrelated with the visual arts

2) Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others Students a. identify intentions of those creating artworks, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of purposes in particular works b. describe meanings of artworks by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts c. reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art

3) Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes Students a. apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks b. conceive and *create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use 

4) Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas Students a. reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture b. apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in their artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in! daily life

Assessment

Evidence: Project based

Levels and Criteria:

   Exemplary: The artwork clearly depicts a specific community. The

 artwork has a clear idea and you can tell time was spent on the details. The artist used elements of art and principles of design effectively. 

   Essential: The artwork has many elements of a community. The artwork has some ideas and some time was spent on details. The artist is using some elements of art and principles of design effectively. 

   Partial: The artwork has a few elements of a community. The artwork has some thought but it feels rushed. The artist is beginning to use elements of art and principles of design.

Goals / Objectives:

The student will produce an original community incorporating two each of both art principles and elements.
 The student will identify his/her general intent and expressive qualities in his/her work.
 The student will incorporate history skills as he/she orally expresses his/her ideas based on his/her own knowledge and experience of community.
 The student will associate concrete ideas with appropriate vocabulary.

Lesson Description: Art Elements and Art Principles of Art Design: line, space, balance, unity

Vocabulary Terms: 

 Line – a dot that moves out into space.

 Space – positive space is the actual object, while negative space is the space surrounding it
 Balance – symmetry (symmetrical, asymmetrical or radial)
 Unity - all the parts work together to make the whole
 Symbol – an item used to represent something else
 Horizon – where the sky meets the earth
 Family – a group of people who are related in some way, such as your descendants or those you live with as a unit
 Culture – beliefs and customs shared by a particular group of people
 Express – share your thoughts out loud
 Personal – unique to you  

Materials Needed: Pencils, erasers, 12X18 80 pound paper, watercolor sets, brushes, clean water, black markers