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Lesson: Maps/finger painting
Grade level: Pre-K, 1, Special Education
Objectives:
- To experiment with finger paints
- To review mixing primary colors making secondary colors
- To make a map
- To review 3 types of lines and use them in the map
Materials:
- Finger paints
- paper
- oil pastels (for 1st grade)
Procedure:
- Introduce a storybook, The Hobbit, and tie in the adventure he is about to embark on with the need for a map!
- Have younger students start painting lines and color mixing. For first graders a further demonstration on how to draw a map (with a legend, river, roads, trees) was performed.
- Students completed the maps with other invented or known symbols.
Lesson: Idea Sketches
Grade level: 5
Objectives:
- To create 4 drawings, each exploring a different idea for a future painting on stretched canvas.
Materials:
- Large paper folded into half (to later be laminated, and formed into a pocket-like portfolio)
- pencils
- mirrors
- exact dimensions of the canvas
Procedure: Students put together the stretchers and traced them 4 times on the outside part of the portfolio. Basic guidelines were given for each of the four drawings: 1) something you love 2) something you fear 3) a self-portrait (using a mirror) and 4) anything at all. Each drawing was to be labeled as such and at least started within the class period. In addition, students were given the assignment to bring images or photographs from home to use as a source for ideas as well.
Lesson: Oil pastels
Grade level: all
Objectives:
- To introduce students to oil pastels and its unique qualities: its greater blendability and vibrancy compared to regular crayons
- To learn cross hatching
- Simultaneously, to draw on envelopes that would be used to collect smaller art work
Materials:
- Oil pastels
- Envelopes of a large size
Procedure: Each student was given an envelope along with a few oil pastels (about 2-3). They drew an enclosed shape, some coloring it in. Later students flipped the envelope over and were instructed how to do crosshatching. Finally, they filled shapes with crosshatching.
Lesson: Idea Sketches (continued)
Grade level: 5
Objectives:
- To finish sketches using oil pastels
- To measure and draw 2 lines intersecting in the middle of the drawing. This was to be a reference point in scale when transferring the sketch to canvas
Materials:
- Pencils
- rulers
- oil pastels
- sketches
Procedure: After explaining the process, students measured their drawings and proceeded to complete above objectives.
Lesson: Abstracting/drawing
Grade level: 5
Objectives:
- To develop our own mysterious interpretation of a recognizable image
- To learn about and make one of: landscapes, portraits, and still life
- To learn the term "abstract"
- To make a finished sketch for a painting
Materials:
- Paper
- color pencils and oil pastels
- National Geographic magazines
Procedure: Josefa explained the ideas and concepts described above to the class. Then materials and magazines were passed out. Many students chose a picture to "abstract" from the magazines. Some brought their own pictures from home.
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