Grade: 1st
Date: March 31, 2008
UNIT: Me and You and All Others Too
Big Idea: Ccmmunity
Essential Questions:
What kinds of things make a community?
Are communities just for people?
Artwork
Shel Silverstein
Henri Matisse
Van Gogh and others for people in groups
Key Concepts:
There are many ways to draw. (with line like Silverstein or with scissors like Matisse, etc.)
Harmony in a work of art often includes repetition.
Sequential Overview of Lessons:
If the World Was Crazy – Line drawing from imagination based on the poem by Shel
Silverstein of this name.
Underwater Communities -- A construction paper cut-out collage of a school of fish based on
Matisse’s collages.
Around My Town -- A mixed media watercolor and marker scene depicting a community event
in the neighborhood with a decorated border and descriptive captions.
Grade: 1st
Date: April 7, 2008
Lesson Plan: Fun Fish
Art Journal Topic: Making Fish
Warm up/Minilesson: Talk about shapes for fish and seaweed
Big Idea: Community
Essential Questions:
What is community? Is it just our neighborhood?
Are there certain things that happen in communities?
Art SOL:
1.5 Create art from real and imaginary sources of inspiration.
1.3 Identify and use shape – organic and/or geometric
1.8 Develop eye-hand coordination by constructing.
1.10 Use motor skills to weave, tear, and otherwise manipulate art materials.
Motivation:
Looking at Matisse’s collages and images of different fish/seaweed.
Lesson:
Create a seascape with fish and seaweed -- construction paper collage.
Procedure:
A brief discussion of what we think of as community, eventually leading to communities of fish.
View work of Matisse and pictures of types of fish.
Distribute blue construction paper and pencil.
PUT YOUR NAME ON BACK OF PAPER.
Distribute scissors and other construction paper colors.
Make fish by drawing shapes to cut out.
Make seaweed by drawing shapes to cut out.
Make waves if you like.
WHEN you have at least 3 of each cut out and arranged on your paper, raise your hand.
GIVE GLUE.
Glue down.
Have cooperative students or students who are finished help with collecting scissors, pencils,
glue.
Have students put scraps in trash by table.
Have students bring work to front desk.
Materials:
Blue construction paper base
Other color construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Vocabulary:
Collage
Geometric shapes
Organic shapes
Form
Pattern
Visuals:
Pictures of Matisse’s collages
Closure:
Today we looked at fish communities underwater. Next time we’ll do an artwork about our own
community.
Rubric:
O – Exceptional collage with hand-cut shapes and clear attempt to design both fish, plants and
placement on page.
V – Very good collage, detail and imagination. Clearly took time and care in either development
of idea or execution with little major problems.
S – Good idea or execution that may not be strong in one area or another, either execution, idea
or craftsmanship.
N – Did not utilize many shapes and demonstrated little effort in attempting to create fish or
consider idea of layout. Relatively poor craftsmanship and execution. Used existing paper
rather than cutting into further designs.
U – Did not really develop idea beyond the minimum of a recognizable object. Shows lack of
concentration and care or interest in completing assignment.