Grade Level: 3rd Grade
Objectives:
Students will trace around different shapes (made from their own templates) to create a work of art using shapes and colors.
Frameworks/Standards:
(A.1.1) Students will examine art and communicate ideas and feelings using the language of art, which shall include the elements and principles.
(A.2.1) Students will use creative problem-solving, critical thinking skills, and various resources to select subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.
(A.3.8) Students will analyze and discuss the relationship among the arts and other disciplines.
Vocabulary:
Geometric, Organic
Materials:
Oil Pastels
Card Stock
12 x 18 white paper
Resources:
Sample of artwork
Introduction/Set:
Teacher will discuss how to identify, compare/contrast, categorize shapes.
Procedure:
• Teacher will discuss and demonstrate how trace around shapes, overlapping and changing colors.
• Teacher will show samples of the process.
• Teacher will discuss and demonstrate how to fold a piece of paper and cut away a shape to form a template.
• Students will follow teacher’s lead to make their own template.
• Students will follow teacher’s lead to trace their template in different colored oil pastels.
• Students will create a finished project using the tracing technique.
Assessment/Evaluation:
Skill Development, Individual Participation, Reflection for Error Correction
Curriculum Integration:
Language arts – Classifying/Categorizing, Social Studies – Alike/Different, Math – Flat Shapes
Reflection/Refinements:
Students’ work will be kept for portfolios.
