Subject/Grade: Visual Arts Gr. 6
Course: Introduction to Art
Unit Title: Lesson 1 week 1: Visual Language and Design
Content Standards:
Content Standards: Using the National Art Common Core Standards -
VA:Cn10.1.6
Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in art-making.
VA:Cn11.1.6
Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.
VA:Cr1.1.6
Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
VA:Cr2.1.6
Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.
VA:Re9.1.6
Develop and apply relevant criteria to evaluate a work of art.
Essential Questions: Why do we make art? How does the making of art make you feel? Why do you like a particular style of art? How does looking at a work of art make you feel? How can doodling work as art?
Understanding: Whether we look at a piece of art and it makes us happy, sad, or confused, there is a reason for that reaction. Learning the language of art and the elements of design will help you to explain why and how a work of art gives us a feeling.
Students will know:
1. Visual art vocabulary.
2. How to describe a work of art technically citing the terms used in design such as, “tone, line, shape, color…”
3. How to apply at least two of the terms to the sketching process.
4. Learn and design "Zen Doodles" as a mode of sketching and artistic thought.
Students will be able to:
1. Identify different elements of design in others’ work.
2. Apply elements of design to the progress of a work of art
3. Use basic instruments effectively in the sketching process.
Activities for ALL students:
Activity 1. View and respond – Students will view works of art and respond with what they think of the art in a discussion format.
Activity 2. Recap. – Viewing the same works of art, students will have copies of the art and vocabulary indicators in the examples. .The vocabulary will be then explained as it pertains to the art.
Activity 3. Zen Doodles and doodling as art practice will be discussed and executed. Students will be able to doodle in structured assignments as well as random patterning as they become more comfortable.
Activity 4. Still life – Students will draw on newsprint using charcoal a still life concentrating on line, shape, and form. The drawings will be purposely timed and no erasers will be allowed in this process as the students are being taught to be open-minded. Techniques such as cross-contour will be introduced as a tie-in to the doodle exercises.
Activity 5. Students will complete two pages of rough sketches with crayons at home practicing doodles. These sketches are to be of ordinary objects found around the house drawn in a doodle fashion and formal cross-contour.
Vocabulary
Line: In visual art, a separation or fracturing of space in color or black and white.
Line qualities can vary in width, length, gesture, color, direction, etc.
Shape: A two‑dimensional area or plane that may be open or closed, free form or geometric.
It can be found in nature or created by humans.
Color: What is seen dependent on the reflection or absorption of light from a given surface.
The three characteristics of colors are hue, intensity, and value.
Tone: Color with gray added to it.
Composition: The overall placement and organization of elements in a work of art, and how those elements relate to each other.
Pattern: A design, image, or shape repeated in a predictable combination.
Contour: The defining outline of a shape.
Cross- Contour: A use of line that wraps around an object like a string being drawn in order to show the dimensionality of the object.
Course: Introduction to Art
Unit Title: Lesson 1 week 1: Visual Language and Design
Content Standards:
Content Standards: Using the National Art Common Core Standards -
VA:Cn10.1.6
Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in art-making.
VA:Cn11.1.6
Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.
VA:Cr1.1.6
Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
VA:Cr2.1.6
Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.
VA:Re9.1.6
Develop and apply relevant criteria to evaluate a work of art.
Essential Questions: Why do we make art? How does the making of art make you feel? Why do you like a particular style of art? How does looking at a work of art make you feel? How can doodling work as art?
Understanding: Whether we look at a piece of art and it makes us happy, sad, or confused, there is a reason for that reaction. Learning the language of art and the elements of design will help you to explain why and how a work of art gives us a feeling.
Students will know:
1. Visual art vocabulary.
2. How to describe a work of art technically citing the terms used in design such as, “tone, line, shape, color…”
3. How to apply at least two of the terms to the sketching process.
4. Learn and design "Zen Doodles" as a mode of sketching and artistic thought.
Students will be able to:
1. Identify different elements of design in others’ work.
2. Apply elements of design to the progress of a work of art
3. Use basic instruments effectively in the sketching process.
Activities for ALL students:
Activity 1. View and respond – Students will view works of art and respond with what they think of the art in a discussion format.
Activity 2. Recap. – Viewing the same works of art, students will have copies of the art and vocabulary indicators in the examples. .The vocabulary will be then explained as it pertains to the art.
Activity 3. Zen Doodles and doodling as art practice will be discussed and executed. Students will be able to doodle in structured assignments as well as random patterning as they become more comfortable.
Activity 4. Still life – Students will draw on newsprint using charcoal a still life concentrating on line, shape, and form. The drawings will be purposely timed and no erasers will be allowed in this process as the students are being taught to be open-minded. Techniques such as cross-contour will be introduced as a tie-in to the doodle exercises.
Activity 5. Students will complete two pages of rough sketches with crayons at home practicing doodles. These sketches are to be of ordinary objects found around the house drawn in a doodle fashion and formal cross-contour.
Vocabulary
Line: In visual art, a separation or fracturing of space in color or black and white.
Line qualities can vary in width, length, gesture, color, direction, etc.
Shape: A two‑dimensional area or plane that may be open or closed, free form or geometric.
It can be found in nature or created by humans.
Color: What is seen dependent on the reflection or absorption of light from a given surface.
The three characteristics of colors are hue, intensity, and value.
Tone: Color with gray added to it.
Composition: The overall placement and organization of elements in a work of art, and how those elements relate to each other.
Pattern: A design, image, or shape repeated in a predictable combination.
Contour: The defining outline of a shape.
Cross- Contour: A use of line that wraps around an object like a string being drawn in order to show the dimensionality of the object.
Grade 6 Visual Art Standards
Connecting
#VA:Cn11.1
Process Component: Interpret
Anchor Standard: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Enduring Understanding: Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?
Grade 6
VA:Cn10.1.6
Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in art-making.
#VA:Cn11.1
Process Component: Synthesize
Anchor Standard: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question: How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Grade 6
VA:Cn11.1.6
Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.
Creating
#VA:Cr1.1
Process Component: Investigate, Plan, Make
Anchor Standard: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question: What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Grade 6
VA:Cr1.1.6
Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
#VA:Cr1.2
Process Component: Investigate, Plan, Make
Anchor Standard: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question: How does knowing the contexts histories, & traditions of art forms help us create works of art & design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources are needed to formulate artistic investigations.
Grade 6
VA:Cr1.2.6
Formulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art.
#VA:Cr2.1
Process Component: Investigate
Anchor Standard: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Grade 6
VA:Cr2.1.6
Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.
#VA:Cr2.2
Process Component: Investigate
Anchor Standard: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question: How do artists and designers care for & maintain materials, tools, & equipment? Why is it important for safety & health to understand & follow correct procedures in handling materials & tools? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
Grade 6
VA:Cr2.2.6
Explain environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of art materials, tools, and equipment.
#VA:Cr2.3
Process Component: Investigate
Anchor Standard: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question: How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?
Grade 6
VA:Cr2.3.6
Design or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified needs of diverse users.
#VA:Cr3.1
Process Component: Reflect, Refine, Continue
Anchor Standard: Refine and complete artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.
Essential Question: What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Grade 6
VA:Cr3.1.6
Reflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.
Presenting
#VA:Pr.4.1
Process Component: Relate
Anchor Standard: Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question: How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Grade 6
VA:Pr.4.1.6
Analyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three- dimensional, and digital artwork.
#VA:Pr5.1
Process Component: Select
Anchor Standard: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
Essential Question: What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
Grade 6
VA:Pr5.1.6
Individually or collaboratively, develop a visual plan for displaying works of art, analyzing exhibit space, the needs of the viewer, and the layout of the exhibit.
#VA:Pr6.1
Process Component: Analyze
Anchor Standard: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
Essential Question: What is an art museum? How does the presenting & sharing of objects, artifacts, & artworks influence & shape ideas, beliefs, & experiences? How do objects, artifacts, & artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation & understanding?
Grade 6
VA:Pr6.1.6
Assess, explain, and provide evidence of how museums or other venues reflect history and values of a community.
Responding
#VA:Re7.1
Process Component: Share
Anchor Standard: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
Essential Question: How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Grade 6
VA:Re7.1.6
Identify and interpret works of art or design that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.
#VA:Re7.2
Process Component: Perceive
Anchor Standard: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Question: What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Grade 6
VA:Re7.2.6
Analyze ways that visual components and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
#VA:Re8.1
Process Component: Perceive
Anchor Standard: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual art vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Grade 6
VA:Re8.1.6
Interpret art by distinguishing between relevant and non-relevant contextual information and analyzing subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
#VA:Re9.1
Process Component: Analyze
Anchor Standard: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Grade 6
VA:Re9.1.6
Develop and apply relevant criteria to evaluate a work of art.
National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (2014) National Core Arts Standards. Rights Administered by the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education. Dover, DE,www.nationalcoreartsstandards.org all rights reserved.
Connecting
#VA:Cn11.1
Process Component: Interpret
Anchor Standard: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Enduring Understanding: Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?
Grade 6
VA:Cn10.1.6
Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in art-making.
#VA:Cn11.1
Process Component: Synthesize
Anchor Standard: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question: How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Grade 6
VA:Cn11.1.6
Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.
Creating
#VA:Cr1.1
Process Component: Investigate, Plan, Make
Anchor Standard: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question: What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Grade 6
VA:Cr1.1.6
Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
#VA:Cr1.2
Process Component: Investigate, Plan, Make
Anchor Standard: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question: How does knowing the contexts histories, & traditions of art forms help us create works of art & design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources are needed to formulate artistic investigations.
Grade 6
VA:Cr1.2.6
Formulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art.
#VA:Cr2.1
Process Component: Investigate
Anchor Standard: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Grade 6
VA:Cr2.1.6
Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.
#VA:Cr2.2
Process Component: Investigate
Anchor Standard: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question: How do artists and designers care for & maintain materials, tools, & equipment? Why is it important for safety & health to understand & follow correct procedures in handling materials & tools? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
Grade 6
VA:Cr2.2.6
Explain environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of art materials, tools, and equipment.
#VA:Cr2.3
Process Component: Investigate
Anchor Standard: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question: How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?
Grade 6
VA:Cr2.3.6
Design or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified needs of diverse users.
#VA:Cr3.1
Process Component: Reflect, Refine, Continue
Anchor Standard: Refine and complete artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.
Essential Question: What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Grade 6
VA:Cr3.1.6
Reflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.
Presenting
#VA:Pr.4.1
Process Component: Relate
Anchor Standard: Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question: How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Grade 6
VA:Pr.4.1.6
Analyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three- dimensional, and digital artwork.
#VA:Pr5.1
Process Component: Select
Anchor Standard: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
Essential Question: What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
Grade 6
VA:Pr5.1.6
Individually or collaboratively, develop a visual plan for displaying works of art, analyzing exhibit space, the needs of the viewer, and the layout of the exhibit.
#VA:Pr6.1
Process Component: Analyze
Anchor Standard: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
Essential Question: What is an art museum? How does the presenting & sharing of objects, artifacts, & artworks influence & shape ideas, beliefs, & experiences? How do objects, artifacts, & artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation & understanding?
Grade 6
VA:Pr6.1.6
Assess, explain, and provide evidence of how museums or other venues reflect history and values of a community.
Responding
#VA:Re7.1
Process Component: Share
Anchor Standard: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
Essential Question: How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Grade 6
VA:Re7.1.6
Identify and interpret works of art or design that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.
#VA:Re7.2
Process Component: Perceive
Anchor Standard: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Question: What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Grade 6
VA:Re7.2.6
Analyze ways that visual components and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
#VA:Re8.1
Process Component: Perceive
Anchor Standard: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual art vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Grade 6
VA:Re8.1.6
Interpret art by distinguishing between relevant and non-relevant contextual information and analyzing subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
#VA:Re9.1
Process Component: Analyze
Anchor Standard: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Grade 6
VA:Re9.1.6
Develop and apply relevant criteria to evaluate a work of art.
National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (2014) National Core Arts Standards. Rights Administered by the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education. Dover, DE,www.nationalcoreartsstandards.org all rights reserved.
