Grade Level: 4th Grade
Objectives:
Students will practice creating perspective, as well as creating foreground and background.
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.3.1) Students will understand and relate how art is used to communicate ideas and feelings to others.
Vocabulary:
Perspective, Background, Foreground, Overlapping, Light Source, Hatching, Crosshatching, Stippling, Shadow
Materials:
6 x 18 white paper
sharpie marker
crayons
Resources:
Various samples of artwork
Introduction/Set:
Teacher will discuss how to create hatching and crosshatching to show a light source in a drawing and try stippling.
Procedure:
• Teacher will refer students to previous practice of hatching and stippling.
• Teacher will discuss and demonstrate how to draw five (5) mugs to create overlapping shapes and perspective.
• Teacher will show samples of the process.
• Students will follow teacher’s lead to produce their own project and colorize.
Assessment/Evaluation:
Skill Development, Individual Participation, Reflection for Error Correction
Curriculum Integration:
Mathematics – measurement, Social Studies – light sources, perspective
Reflection/Refinements:
Students’ work will be kept for display in the school.
