Assignments and PROJECTS FOR first grade!
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Unit 1: Discovering Art!
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
LESSON TWO: Students will create a tree collage landscape with diagonal tree branches. They will also include curved, loopy, spiral, and wavy lines in the sky as well as an element of blending with oil pastels in their collage.
LESSON THREE: Students will create an abstract paper collage similar to that of Henri Mattisse.
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
- 1.1: Select and use different media, techniques, and processes.
- 1.6: Identify different media, techniques, and processes that are used to create works of art.
LESSON TWO: Students will create a tree collage landscape with diagonal tree branches. They will also include curved, loopy, spiral, and wavy lines in the sky as well as an element of blending with oil pastels in their collage.
LESSON THREE: Students will create an abstract paper collage similar to that of Henri Mattisse.
Unit 2: Discovering Communication
In Art!
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
LESSON TWO: Students will create a human face with model magic.
LESSON THREE: Students will create a realistic drawing of a still life using shapes.
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
- 1.2: Use selected two-dimensional and three-dimensional media to communicate ideas.
- 1.3: Use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
- 1.4: Demonstrate how a single medium or technique can e used to create multiple effects in works of art.
LESSON TWO: Students will create a human face with model magic.
LESSON THREE: Students will create a realistic drawing of a still life using shapes.
Unit 3: Art + Artist = Relationships!
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Grade Level Expectation:
LESSON TWO: Students will create three landscapes and learn how to use the primary colors to mix the secondary colors.
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Grade Level Expectation:
- 4.1: Identify historical and cultural characteristics of works of art.
- 4.2: Describe how the arts and artists influence each other across history and culture.
LESSON TWO: Students will create three landscapes and learn how to use the primary colors to mix the secondary colors.
Unit 4: Artist + Community = Relationships!
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Grade Level Expectation:
LESSON TWO: Students will create Cinco De Mayo flowers using pattern.
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Grade Level Expectation:
- 4.4: Speculate on how history and culture give meaning to a work of art.
- 4.5: Describe and differentiate the roles of artists in society across history and cultures.
LESSON TWO: Students will create Cinco De Mayo flowers using pattern.