Campbellsport School District Understanding by Design (UbD) Template
Art Foundations
Curriculum/Content Area: Art
Course Length: 1 quarter
Course Title: Art Foundations
Date last reviewed: 1/21/15
Prerequisites: none
Board approval date:
Desired Results: Develop art skills that help students to communicate through art.
Course description and purpose: This is an introductory art course designed to allow students to
explore a variety of art media in two-dimensional and three-dimensional design. There is a strong
emphasis on developing beginning art skills along with learning basic art vocabulary and art history.
The focus will be on art as a form of human communication. Art Foundations must be successfully
completed if the student wishes to enroll in any other art courses, except Introduction to Drawing.
Students are required to furnish some materials.
Enduring Understandings (EUs): [for
teacher use] [6-10 things that you want kids
to know and be able to do in life because
they’ve had this class]
1. Students will develop artistic skills with
the use of a variety of tools, materials,
and artistic conventions.
2. Students will understand and
demonstrate artful design.
3. Students will embrace problems of
relevance within the art world, test and
form solutions, and then decide how
to use materials for that particular art
task.
4. Students will learn to create
meaningful artworks that convey an
idea or feeling.
5. Students will learn to reflect upon and
evaluate the artwork of others as well
as their own.
6. Students will understand and
appreciate art outside of their culture
Essential Questions (EQs): [6-10 things that
you want to make sure kids can do on a final
project/assessment… students should be
able to answer these at the end of each unit]
1. What type of planning, sketching, and
journaling was involved?
2. How did I incorporate the elements
and principles of design into my
artwork?
3. What type of effort, persistence,
problem-solving, and time
management was used was used?
4. How did I communicate an idea or
create something that is meaningful
and personal to me?
5. What are my strengths and
weaknesses of my artwork and my
classmates?
6. What did I learn about other cultures
and artists that helped me?
and within their own culture and
community.
Assessment Evidence
Performance assessments: Art Projects
Other assessments: sketchbook, critical
analysis of works of art
Unit Title: Introduction to art terms, media, and techniques
Sketchbook Assignments: students will create a variety of practice drawing assignments within their
sketchbook, along with writing/journal entries, and ideas (photos and sketches) for art projects.
Elements and Principles of Art: students will create visual and written examples demonstrating their
understanding of technical art terms.
Right Brain Exercises: students will watch Betty Edward’s video “Drawing on the right side of the
Brain” and complete a series of drawings.
Contour Line Objects: students will draw several objects in contour line from observation and
combine them into a drawing.
Art History: Students will examine several works of art and students will complete a writing
assignment that includes a description, analysis, and interpretation of a work of art.
Printmaking: After students complete a series of 2 color designs that will choose 1 one to carve and
print in a repeated sequence.
Painting: Students will experiment with acrylic paint and complete a painting on canvas.
Clay: Students will create functional and decorative objects out of clay.
Standard(s): Standards noted are from Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Art and Design Education.
Madison, WI: Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction, 2000.
A.12.2 Learn appropriate vocabulary related to their study of art
A.12.3 Know about styles of art from their own and other parts of the world
B.12.5 Understand how their choices in art are shaped by their own culture and society
C.12.1 Know the elements and principles of design
C.12.2 Understand what makes quality design
C.12.5 Use thumbnail sketches to experiment and start developing visual ideas
C.12.6 Develop the craft and skills to produce quality art
G.12.1 Know that visual images are important tools for thinking and communicating
G.12.4 Create works of art that have meanings
H.12.3 Be able to draw, paint, and sculpt from life
H.12.4 Create three-dimensional models
I.12.2 Make art that reflects different feelings
I.12.3 Talk or write about feelings in a variety of works of art
I.12.4 Recognize that their own feelings affect how they look at art
I.12.5 Understand that art reflects the time and place in which it was created
J.12.5 Explore their own ideas about the purposes and meanings of art
K.12.1 Connect their knowledge and skills in art to other areas, such as the humanities, sciences, and social
studies
K.12.3 Apply what they know about the nature of life, nature, the physical world, and the human condition to
their understanding and creation of art
L.12.1 Use their knowledge, intuition, and experiences to develop ideas for artwork
L.12.2 Develop a base of knowledge and skills from which to create new ideas
L.12.3 Understand the role that personal traits, such as independent thinking, courage, integrity, insight,
dedication and patience, play in creating quality art and design
L.12.4 Understand that nature and other designs can be sources for new ideas
L.12.5 Study ways that artists develop personal style that reflects who they are