3rd Grade
Color Worlds
Lesson3 Days
Project Description: Students will create “Color Worlds” based on Alicia LaChance’s New Village painting. They will compare and contrast the lines, shapes, colors, and patterns in the painting to discover its diversity. The students will begin their collages by painting solid colors and patterns on strips of construction paper. They will then cut shapes out of these and construct a symmetrical radial design on a piece of square paper. Big Ideas & Related Art Concepts: Diversity/Culture: Line, Shape, Color, Scale, Pattern, Repetition, Variety, Appropriation Commonalities: Shape, Color, Balance, Pattern, Repetition, Appropriation, Overlap Unity: Shape, Color, Space, Repetition, Appropriation, Congestion Essential Questions: How is our world diverse? How does this diversity affect our interactions with others? Is diversity good? What is similar between all humans? Artwork Studied: Alicia LaChance New Village 2012 Fresco and oil on canvas NYS Learning Standards for Visual Arts, Elementary: 1a, 1c, 1d, 1e, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b NYS CCLS for English Language Arts, 3rd Grade: Speaking and Listening Comprehension and Collaboration: 1b, 1c, 1d, 3 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: 6 Language Standards Conventions of Standard English: 1c Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: 4a, 6 Objectives: •Technical Objectives: Use bright and dull colors to paint 3 solid and 4-5 patterned strips of paper. Cut a motif out of the painted strips of paper and create a radial composition. •Vocabulary: Identify and describe the following: Organic shape, Geometric shape, Bright color, Dull color, Primary color, Magenta, Yellow, Cyan, Red, Blue, Pattern, Repetition, and Motif. •Language Function: Students will compare and contrast shapes, colors, and how different patterns are made. Students will identify patterns, colors, and shapes in the painting. •Syntax: Students will use complete sentences and refer to specific parts of their artwork by identifying which shape, line, or color they are talking about when speaking. •Meaning Making: Identify why patterns and motifs are similar or different across cultures by explaining that humans are diverse and use patterns differently. Assessment Activities: Informal and Formative: • Class discussions about artwork and vocabulary Formal and Formative: • Painting strips with solid colors and patterns • Cutting a single motif on both ends of each strip • Create a radial composition with strips Formal and Summative: • Explaining what concepts and vocabulary have been learned • Finished artwork Materials: For students: Strips of paper, paint, brushes, smocks, painting boards, pencils and erasers, paper towels, water cups, scissors, glue, background square For teacher: Vocabulary board, New Village poster, Pattern Examples, Color worksheet, Whiteboard Lesson Steps: DAY 1 1. Paint solid colored strips of paper. 2. Discuss how to tell if a color is bright or dull. Discuss use of patterns from other cultures in LaChance’s artwork. Compare patterns to discover diversity and similarities. 3. Use artworks from various cultures to design and paint patterns for new strips of paper. 4. Create personalized patterns with paint on strips of paper. 5. Closure: Share patterns made and explain what inspired them. DAY 2 1. Review pattern and learn about motifs, generating a list from the examples of patterns from other cultures 2. Select one motif to cut on the ends of the painted strips. 3. Pretending she was absent, tell the teacher what concepts were learned today. DAY 3 1. Identify and describe composition in LaChance’s painting. Talk about how colors are placed near each other to make certain ones pop. 2. Create radial compositions with strips and glue down. 3. Closure: Show an tell with artworks: what patterns, shapes, and lines did I use? What was my motif? |
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