LESSON PLAN:
MATERIALS NEEDED: scrap paper for visual and written notes,
white paper/paint/brushes/water/colored tissue paper for
painting background sky atmosphere. Crayons for added wax
resist to sky before painting. Scrap poster board,
cardboard/scissors/glue for art deco building collograph. Silver
&white ink/colored copy paper/brayers/newspaper. Scissors for
cutting out prints. Extra strength glue sticks (sets of 24: 3 sets) for
attaching prints to sidewalk. Colored tissue paper for palm tree
trunks AND fronds. Blue/green paper for patio umbrellas.
Blue/green paint for stamping onto white matt frames; silver
tempera for star stamps on white matt frame.
RESOURCES: Miami art deco websites
PROCEDURES:
Day 1: intro to architecture, Miami Beach, Ocean Drive hotels
and environment. On folded scrap paper, students will draw a
variety of art deco style hotels from Google.
Day 2: continue with drawing hotels and add written notes from
art deco architecture vocab sheet.
Day 3: begin painting background night/twilight/dusk/sunset
SKY. Add in areas at bottom for street and sidewalk. Add in
textured areas?
Day 4:
Day 5: show final hotel rubric; get variety of thick papers. (BE
CAREFUL NOT TO PICK SLICK PAPER: GLUE WON’T STICK)
Create new hotel using the papers/glue and scissors.
Day 8(block day): students will print their own hotel once and
then other hotels on the rest of their colored paper. (finish with 4
prints-allow for 6 papers to print-student’s hotel twice)
Day 9: grade 4 prints; begin tracing printed details with black
thin sharpie pens.
Day10: finish the tracing; start the hotel names (allow students
to select 4 hotel names from Ocean Dive list)(COPY HOTEL
NAMES WITH A FONT/SIZE VARIETY AND PRINT/COPY ON SAME
COLORED PAPER AS PRINTS-USE AS COLLAGED HOTEL NAMES)
Day 11: trace umbrellas using blue/green construction papers.
Cut out and glue down along sidewalk.
NGSSS:
Big Idea: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
#1. Understanding the organizational structure of an art form provides a foundation for
appreciation of artistic works and respect for the creative process.
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#2. The structural rules and conventions of an art form serve as both a foundation and departure
point for creativity.
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#3. Every art form uses its own unique language, verbal/ non-verbal, to document and
communicate with the world.
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Big Idea: HISTORICAL AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
#1. Through study in the arts, we learn about and honor others and the world they live in.
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#2. The arts reflect and document cultural trends and historical events and help explain how new
directions in the arts have emerged.
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#3.
ASSESSMENT RUBRIC:
Final hotel rubric 100 points: 2 layers of details/correct overall
size/neatly cut out details/place for hotel name/design like
practice hotel.
Practice hotel 100 points: had to be the correct size (using the
numbered tracers), had to be 1 of the 4 definitions (for art deco
hotel styles using the vocab chart), had to have details like the
definitions.
Sidewalk/street paper 10 points: use the ruler the right way the
FIRST time (along the bottom edge so everyone’s street will line
up at the end)
Print rubric: 10 points for just right ink; 7 points for not
enough/too much ink
OBSERVATIONS:
Get the silver/white ink and the multi colored BRIGHT copy
paper