Unit Plan Title: - Length: - 8 Weeks - Polaris Service Learning 2nd-3rd Grade
Unit Plan Title: - Length: - 8 Weeks - Polaris Service Learning 2nd-3rd Grade
Unit Plan Title: - Length: - 8 Weeks - Polaris Service Learning 2nd-3rd Grade
Course Name
Grade Level
Standards
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend
Length:_________8 weeks____________________
2nd-3rd Grade
i.
I can talk about my art and your art with art words
b. Artists, viewers, and patrons make connections among the characteristics, expressive
features, and purposes of art and design
i.
I can connect ideas in art
3. Invent and Discover to Create
a. Use familiar symbols and basic media to identify and demonstrate characteristics and
expressive ideas of art and design
i.
I can use symbols and art materials to express ideas
b. Demonstrate basic studio skills
i.
I can work appropriately in an art classroom
Studio Thinking
Develop Craft: Learning to use materials, tools and techniques
Engage and Persist: Learning to embrace problems and not give up
Envision: Imagine the possible next steps; see what is not there
Express: Convey an idea, feeling, personal meaning
Observe: Seeing things that otherwise might not be seen
Reflect: think, talk and evaluate your work and the work of others
Stretch and Explore: Reach beyond ones perceived capacities
Understand Art World: Learn about contemporary and past art(ist)
Lesson Length
1
Sequence
1
Identity
Unit: Prepared
Graduate
Competencies
Identity, Relationships.
Tension/Conflict, Freedom, Design,
Aesthetic, Patterns, Origins,
Transformation, Change, Influence,
Collaboration, Intention,
Play/Exploration, Synergy/Flow,
Choices, Balance, Inspiration,
System, Structure/Function, Reform)
Unit: Standards
and Grade Level
Expectations
(Unit must have all
standards; NOT all
GLEs.)
(Visual Arts Standard Name and appropriate GLEs for each standard)
iii.
I can connect ideas in art
Invent and Discover to Create:
Use familiar symbols and basic media to identify and demonstrate characteristics and expressive ideas of art and design
ii.
I can use symbols and art materials to express ideas
Demonstrate basic studio skills
iii.
I can work appropriately in an art classroom
Relate and Connect to Transfer:
Works of art connect individual ideas to make meaning
ii.
I can connect ideas to make meaning through art
Historical and cultural ideas are evident in works of art
iii.
I can connect art to the world around me
Unit: Inquiry
Questions
(Engaging-Debatable:
In art, what does it
mean when something is
beautiful? How can
something be so ugly it
is beautiful?)
Unit Strands
Comprehend/Reflect/Create/Transfer
Unit: Concepts:
Timeless,
Transferrable and
Universal (I.E.
Identity, communication, expression, meaning, connection, creation, discussion, analyzation, defense, function
Composition, Patterns,
Technique, Rhythm,
Paradox, Influence,
Style, Force, Culture,
Space/Time/Energy,
Line, Law/Rules, Value,
Expressions, Emotions,
Tradition, Symbol,
Movement, Shape,
Improvisation,
Observation)
For each statement you create below align with Standard(s), Prepared Graduate Competencies, and Grade Level Expectations. Refer to Standards: Inquiry Questions, Relevance and
Application and Nature of Statement when writing understandings.
Artists use materials and art concepts to express ideas and create
meaning in art
Artists can plan, analyze, and defend their artwork and the artwork of
others
1.
2.
3.
4.
Identify characteristics
Make connections
Explore their interests
Analyze and defend their work
Vocabulary
Identity, composition, fibers, screenprinting, pottery, ceramics, glaze, video, digital art, photography, reflection
Literacy Integration
Numeracy Integration
Measurements