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Title:
Material Exploration
Students will create personal puzzle pieces to express their personality and share
themselves with the class; as a way to get to know each other.
going to teach and why is this
lesson of importance to your Students will then explore the medium of tissue paper and discover ways to use
students? How is it relevant to
materials through two different compositions.
students of this age and
background?
Essential Understanding (s): What are the big ideas? What specific
Outcomes - Students will be able to...What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? ...Art history and culture;
expressive features and characteristics of art; art materials, tools, and techniques? What should they eventually be able to do as a result of such knowledge and
skill? ...Compare and contrast art work; analyze sketches?
understanding be judged?
pattern, and resist in their second piece to use the tools and
techniques discovered in the first activities.
Pre-assessment:
How will you help the students know where the unit is going and what is expected? Help the teacher know where the students are
coming from (prior knowledge, interests)?
The unit will begin with a simple question, one without a specific correct answer: How do we know what
tissue paper can do? This question will serve as a basis for discussion on color theory and an exploration
of media with the intention of activating prior knowledge in the form of content and compositional
construction.
Motivation:
How will you hook all students and hold their interest?
Ideation:
How will you equip students, help them experience the key
ideas, and explore the issues to generate ideas for their art work?
-Teachers demonstrate tissue paper painted with watered down glue. We will show overlapping, and color
mixing.
-Students will be given smaller sheet of paper for exploration
-Students try tissue paper with primary colors only
-Students play and explore overlap
-Students explore painting with tissue paper
-Students reflect on first piece What did you find?
-Teachers show examples of famous art works using overlap and ask questions like: how did they do that?
What were they inspired by?
-Teachers demonstrate resist with pastels and crayon on tissue paper
-Students are given larger sheet of paper to make their final piece
-Students continue on a second work
-Students explore color, repetition of shape, pattern, overlap, and possibly resist
-Students present to whole class or small groups what they made
-Students identify use of overlapping, painting, texture, and/or resist
Materials and Resources: What is needed to complete the learning plan? List materials and resources in a bulleted format.
Paper for puzzle pieces will be cut and tissue paper will be cut into circles, triangles, squares, and
rectangles. Before students arrive, all materials will be set up. Tables will be covered and tissue paper,
water, glue, and brushes set up for a demonstration. Each student will have a puzzle piece, a small piece
of paper for exploration, and a large piece of paper for final artwork.
Accommodations:
How is the lesson tailored (personalized) to the different needs, interests, and abilities of learners? ...Access (Resources and/or
Process) and Expression (Products and/or Performance)?
Gloves will be available for student who do not want to get their hands dirty. Other accommodations will
be further assessed when the students needs are known.