Lesson Description
For one year, humans will not be permitted outdoors to give the earth some time to heal. Today you will be a designer responsible to decide what elements of nature will come inside with you and create drawings to express your ideas. You will identify and select a variety of nature place that you connect to. As a designer, you will consider the scale, and perspectives of bringing these inside. In your drawings, you will consider use of color when depicting your desired indoor experience. Your peer artist and the polaris community will be interested to see your designs, drawings, and paintings.
Essential Understandings
Artists develop personal relationships to their surroundings.
Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, to develop technique and communicate ideas.
Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, to develop technique and communicate ideas.
Inquiry/ Learning Targets
“I can identify my relationship to my surroundings.”
“ I can use form, structures, materials, technique to communicate concept and ideas”
“ I can use form, structures, materials, technique to communicate concept and ideas”
Key Concepts
Relationships
Skills
Completion
Reflecting
Reflecting
Art Focus
Painting
Literary Focus
Bird's eye view perspective
Objective
Evaluating their ideation TSWBAT choose the most important nature elements to bring into indoor spaces.
Reflection
To begin class, students got into groups of three to discuss each other's paintings. The artist was silent when the other group members were asked these questions questions below. After two minutes, the artist spoke to the group to debrief.
What can you tell about the artist by what they painted?
How many colors can you find?
How do you think the artist made them?
In the videos below, students discuss each other's paintings
" I notice that you did a light green and a dark green over it"
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"I see yellow with a tint, and then a yellow with some blue in it"
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"She likes tree houses and a lot of water"
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" Right here is a whitish grayish color"
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"13, 14,15 colors!"
Choosing Titles
After returning to their own painting, students were asked to brainstorm a list of ten things they associate with their art work. Then five potential titles were written to choose from.
Collaborative Polaris Classroom Drawing
Back in their groups of three, students created a collaborative drawing of their 4/5 classroom for the indoor year. They were asked to create a list of elements they agreed on to include for the class.
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Students give a verbal tour of their collaborative Polaris classroom drawing.
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Students above have a conversation about the classroom plan they can agree on.
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Students explain elements of the classroom design.
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Students explain the animals, and nature elements that will be in their classroom.
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