Problem-Based Lesson Plan
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ARTE 301
Connection Collage
Rachel Kinney
Prairie View Ogden South
3rd
April 16, 2015
Big Idea that drives Lesson/Unit:
Making connections with people and objects is vital to human experience and
heavily influential in art making. Connections can be made by drawing upon past
experiences, knowledge, and empathy to relate to objects, people, and ideas. These
are five problem based lesson plans to inspire connections and art based on those
connections.
Key concepts about Big Idea:
 Relationships are formed by connections
 Connections are important to human existence
 Making connections fuels art making/viewing
Fine Arts Goals Met by the Objectives:
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Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create works of visual art using problem solving,
observing, designing, sketching and constructing.
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Understand how elements and principles combine within an art form to express ideas.
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Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create visual works of art using manipulation, eye/hand
coordination, building and imagination.
3-4 Essential Questions:
 What happens when you make irrational connections?
 Do these connections affect how we see the world and each other?
 Are connections important in art making?
 How do connections make meaning?
Vocabulary Acquisition:
 collage: combination of various things
 Surrealism: art movement to combine real life with dream life by making
irrational juxtaposition of images
 Irrational juxtaposition of images: making connections by combining or
placing close to each other images that would never in ordinary life be
together
 Scale-size
Key Artistic Concepts:
 Collage
 Surrealism
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Problem-Based Lesson Plan
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Artmaking Materials Needed:
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Scissors
Glue
Magazines
Construction paper
pencils
Contemporary/Historical/Multicultural exemplars:
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Eugenia Loli
Rene magritte
Procedures:
 DISCUSSION: (5 minutes)
o Have any of you ever had crazy dreams!?
o We will be making a surreal, or dream like collage
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o Imagination is key!!
DEMONSTRATIONS: (8 minutes)
o Show examples
o Define surrealism
o The idea is to make a situation, environment, or combination of
objects that don’t make sense, like your dreams
o How can you make something dream like?
Ex. unrealistic scale, connect very different objects
o Fill whole page! So tear bigger pieces for background or enough small
pieces to fill whole paper
DESIGN/WORK SESSION: (20 minutes)
o First 8-10 minutes look through magazines, tear out, cut out images
o Second 12-10 minutes arrange, glue down images
CLEAN UP: clean up scraps, glue, scissors, name on paper(5 minutes)
CLOSURE: (2 minute)
o While walking around looking at each other’s work discuss
o What does making these connections that don’t normally exist
between objects/people do? What does it make you think about?
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