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Unit 1
Visual Art: Drawing                                                                                                            Duration: Onging


Essential Questions:
  1. How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?
  2. What role does persistence play in planning, revising and refining work over time?
  3. What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
  4. How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Big Ideas:
  • Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed
Priority Standards:
  • Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
  • Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
  • Refine and complete artistic work.
Performance Standards:
  • VA:Cr2.1.2a Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
  • VA:Cr1.1.2a Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design.
  • VA:Cr2.2.2a Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment and studio spaces.

What to Teach

Introducing the Illusion of Space
  • I can create a horizon line. 
  • I can create an artwork with foreground and background.
  • I can overlap shapes to create depth.
  • I can use different size shapes to create depth.

Student Practice

Cactus Landscape - Experimenting With Art Lesson 17 page 71

Create a work of art showing the illusion of space.

Students will draw the following 3-D forms: cylinder, cube, cone, pyramid, rectangular prism, triangular prism, sphere
Introducing the Illusion of Form
  • I can identify geometric forms.
  • I can draw basic geometric forms.

Assessment

Pre assessment
  • Student Artwork
  • Artwork Rubric

Formative Assessment:
  • Check for Understanding
  • Teacher Observation
  • Group Discussion
  • Artist Statement
  • Artwork Rubric

​Post Assessment

Report Card Headings

Project Rubric

Unit resources

Geometric Wooden Form Set

Experimenting With Art Lesson 6 page 59

Google Cultural Institute Art Project

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