Students explore how our neighborhood changes over time. Using one of the children's books recommended in the resources list, students will use ideas gathered from their own classroom windows to view these architectural and seasonal changes over time.
Students will learn about artists who used numerals in their work, experience chalk pastels as an art medium, and work with adding in number sentences. They will learn about positive and negative space, review warm and cool colors, review the concept of overlapping, and learn how to use stencils.
Students will use their observational skills as they observe and discern different geometric shapes, art elements of line and space, and art principles of emphasis and balance found within the construction of their playground equipment. The students will analyze playground equipment, identifying the various elements incorporated in the construction of the pieces
This lesson features a glue relief self portrait and personal portrait image covered with aluminum foil on the outside cover. On the inside are special messages about the "artist" and his or her special image.
Students will construct their own "pieces of the pie" using concepts of primary, secondary and intermediate color.
Students will learn about their own community by using recyclables to create a class sculpture. They will understand Heidelberg neighborhood and apply their own ideas to construct their ideal community.
Students will learn and apply the basic fundamentals of still life drawing as they create an original composition based on found items in the classroom. They will incorporate language arts concepts such as listening, inferring and summarizing as they listen first to a model story and then complete an original story based on their projects.
Students will understand the difference between a sculpture and a drawing or painting, understand the meaning of the word silhouette and will create a simple silhouette of any animal or object they choose and use that drawing to create a sculpture piece which is mounted to a wooden base.
Students will discuss secondary and primary colors using tactile and visual senses.
Students will learn about soft sculptural elements by constructing animals made from reused items.
Students will learn about relief printmaking in this lesson creating Mandalas.
Students will learn how artists select and develop a verbal and visual vocabulary in order to describe, analyze, interpret and perceive abstract imagery, music and sound.
Students will learn the value of and how to incorporate symbolism as a means of expressing personal meaning as they create an original family tree which represents their family and culture. They will incorporate language arts skills through expressing their personal story in writing a composition, as well as history as they orally express the ideas they have set forth both in their symbolic rendering as well as their writing composition.