Kindergarten Class

Column1 Technique/P roduct

Column2 Theme/Diversity

Column3 Visual Culture

Column4 Aesthetics/Art History/Art Criticism

Column5 Journal

Column6 Special Needs Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: choose different objects within the drawing Special Needs: Trace different shapes for practice Gifted/Talented: Draw the shape of the body within the basic shapes

Charcol Drawing

Blind Contour Drawing

Item represents interest

Abstract images

Sketch using Automatism approach

Drawing the Body with shapes

Identity

What are shapes?

Shapes in art

Sketch an animal using shapes

Cave Drawings/oil pastels

Telling a story

Images of cave paintings

Lascaux Caves

Special Needs: work with a partner Sketch multiple Gifted/Talented: create own symbols ideas for the story to represent the story

4 5 Color Wheel Collage Color theory Images of color wheels Learning the color wheel (primary/secondary) Experiment with color mixing Special Needs: work with a partner Gifted/Talented: assist other students when finished Special Needs: work with a partner Gifted/Talented: add the body of the animal with the magazine pieces Special Needs: work with partner to help cut materials Gifted/Talented: create a theme in the collage Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: create an object using burlap that would be found in the desert

Recycled Magazine Animal Faces

How recycling can Images of help endangered Recycled objects as art endangered Species species

Sketch animal ideas

Abstract/Text ured Collage

Unifying different materials

Recycled materials

Elements and Principles of Design

Sketch different textures Draw an object that you would most likely want/need in the desert

Fabric Assemblage

Desert Landscape

Images of deserts and what can survive in the environment

Alberto Burri

Use of intense color Sketch objects that Chagall Oil Images of Chagall's Marc Chagall I and to create a dreamlike will be used in this Pastel Image art My Village/ Surrealism atmosphere project Night Skyline Scene Outside own environment Objects in a certain Artworks that portray areas buildings at night Sketch a variety of objects that could be used in the artwork

Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: no need for modification Special Needs: help from a partner Gifted/Talented: do all three areas

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Action Jackson Painting

Line

"Action Jackson" www.jacksonpolloc k.org

Jackson Pollock Emotion in lines

Special Needs: use a pencil instead of Practice drawing black marker for the lines different types of Gifted/Talented: create a feeling using lines lines and colors

13 14 15 Displaying Artist Trading Expressing yourself personality/interests Cards to others to others Sketch designs, objects that show your personality Special Needs: create larger trading cards Gifted/Talented: create six cards instead of four. Colors used need to represent the personality trait Painted Lockets Personal character Keepsake items/ Photographs Use of lockets in different cultures Sketch a design for the locket Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: create a locket box

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Business cards/ Baseball cards

17 Special Needs: create a painting of a Sketch a creature fish with watercolors Artist who paint water that belongs under Gifted/Talented: create a light source the sea within the seascape

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Seascapes

Sea life with acrylics Images of sea life

19 Sketch an object you use everday that could be considered art Special Needs: work with a partner to fold the paper Gifted/Talented: use the color wheel to create a color theme for the fan

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Japanese Fans

Watercolors

Nature/flowers

Art as a function

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Reflected Houses

Use of different media

Images of reflected Artwork that portrays What else could be objects/stencils water reflections reflected in water?

Special Needs: limit the amount of houses Gifted/Talented: include other buildings besides houses

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Fruit and Veggie Prints

Food as art

Artwork that Special Needs: choose easier foods to Bringing in a wide Sketch a pattern incorporate use variety of fruits and with the use of fruits/images of stencil Gifted/Talented: paint over the print vegetables their food choices printmaking to make the image more detailed Sketch trees in Images of monoprints different seasons to show the changes Special Needs: use only primary colors for their print Gifted/Talented: incorporate other objects to make it seem like a fall picture

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Foil Prints

Monoprinting

Fall Trees

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Bean Mosaics

Picasso style Portraits

Image of a person

Picasso portraits/images of Mosaics

Special Needs: use beans similar in Sketch a simplified size image of yourself Gifted/Talented: use a wide variety of beans, small and large Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: create another puppet that would represent an assistant, co-worker, etc. Special Needs: use primary or secondary colors Gifted/Talented: use Tertiary or Monochromatic colors Special Needs: work with a partner to help tie string around the frame Gifted/Talented: add any aditional media to make the feeder more 3D

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Paper Bag Puppets

What do you want to Image of be when you grow yourself/occupation up?

Fandango Puppets

Sketch a scene which would fit your puppet

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Sand Jars

Patterns

Colored sand

Australian Aboriginal Sand Art and function

Select a color pattern to use Hang the bird feeder outside at home. See what kind of birds are attracted to the

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Bird Feeder

Fauvism colors favored by birds

Colors that attract certain birds

Fauvism artworks/artists

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Percussive Pods

Incorporating music Function of rattels into visual art

Art as a function

What different Special Needs: work with a partner tools could you use Gifted Talented: plan out the shape of to bring texture to what you want the rattle to represent your rattle

31 Special Needs: work with a partner when coming up with different techniques to make the card "pop" Gifted/Talented: these students can make multiple cards, or much larger ones to incorporate more in the card Special Needs: no need for modification

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Pop-up Cards Lifting other's spirits Examples of cards

Art that can help others Sketch an image of in a time of need or how you want the special occasion card to look

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Corpse Drawing

Hybrid Creatures

Images of Surrealism

Salvador Dali Sketch an image of how you want the Functions of clay pinch pinch pot to look pots in different and what cultures contrasting colors you want to use

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Clay Pinch Pots

Contrasting Colors

Images of pinch pots

Special Needs: work with a partner Gifted/Talented: create a handle or two that could go on the pot

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Surrealist pictures

Rene Magritte

Grade 1-3 Class

Column1 Technique/Product

Column2 Theme/Diversity

Column3 Visual Culture

Column4 Aesthetics/Art History/Art Criticism

Column5 Journal

Column6 Special Needs

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Comic Book Drawings

Telling a story

Story about being outside

Special Needs: no need for Examples of art telling Brainstorm ideas for modification a story story in journal Gifted/Talented: they will act as the "manager" in the group

Marionette Puppets

Drama in art

Puppets from the How puppets are media today considered an art form

Write a skit that will Special Needs: assist with tying knots be developed for the puppet between the two Gifted/Talented: Create a stage using puppets made a large cardboard box for the puppets What colors/line Special Needs: Assist laying down the work would help to masking tape make your piece Gifted/Talented: create a specific speak in a spiritual design with the masking tape way?

6 7 Abstraction/Geometr Variety of widths ic Shapes of masking tape Piet Mondrian and Spirituality

Masking Tape Painting

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Grout Mosaics Self-Portrait Image of yourself Sketch the image of Special Needs: work with step-by-step yourself and break it instruction Historical Mosaic Art apart like it would Gifted/Talented: no need for be in the mosaic modification

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Bubble Wrap Prints

Using typical objects Images of Nonin art objective art

Kandinsky

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Sketch the image Special Needs: no need for you are wanting to modification design with Gifted/Talented: break away from the different colors in non-objective and turn the print into a mind that are specific design unified

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X-Ray Fish

Australian Aboriginal

Images of fish

Special Needs: students will work Australian Aboriginal X- Sketch the design of with a partner Ray Art and pupose the fish Gifted/Talented: use the X-Ray art in different animal forms Where would you choose to paint outdoors? Why? Special Needs: Individual conferences with students Gifted/Talented: no need for modifications

String Painting

Paintng in a different way

Images of landscapes

Thomas Moran

Oil paints, Statue of Liberty

Muliculturalism

Learning about immigration, images of the State of Liberty, personal item

History of the State of If you were Liberty traveling to another country and could only bring one item, what would it be and why? This is the item you will paint in your artwork.

Special Needs: Assign a clean up partner Gifted/Talented: Create their own version of the statue

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Cardboard and wood, Low relief 3D sculptures

Using layers to create movement, rhythm and balance

Recycled cardboard

Louise Nevelson

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Research a Special Needs: Presentation of Nevelson's piece material in small steps and compare and Gifted/Talented: keep tabs on step by contrast with your step instructions on making the project own. and why you chose to do it a certain way

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Architectural Letters

Self-Interest

Images of architecture

Architecture as an art form

Special Needs: students will be Sketch ideas you assisted with gluing the letter together want to incorporate Gifted/Talented: students are required into the letter to do initials of their first and last name

50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 Nature Assemblage/Texture Creating a theme with nature Found objects Larry Neilson Write down objects you could use that would go well together Deconstructed Books Making something ordinary into extraordinary Recycled books Books turned into a scultpure piece Write down ideas you could transform your book into Special Needs: individual conferences with the students Gifted/Talented: add additional objects to the book sculpture

Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: students will be required to use 10 different nature objects in their piece

64 65 66 67 68 69 Sketch ideas of different foods Special Needs: students will work on 2 pieces of food items Gifted/Talented: students will be required to create 5 foods, creating a unifying theme

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Clay Food

Pop Art

Images of food

Claes Oldenburg

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Leaf Prints

Fall Leaves

Use of fall leaves from outside

Monoprint examples

Brainstorm for color ideas

Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: create their own leaves out of foam

Clay Sandcastles

Sand as Art

Images of sandcastles

Sand sculpture competitions

Sketch sandcastle

Special Needs: students may work with a partner Gifted/Talented: students will make a fairly large representation

Recycled Fish

Trash as Art

Images of Fish

Robert Bradford

Sketch designs of fish and write down objects they may want to use

Special Needs: students may work with a partner Gifted/Talented: students will be required to use 5 piece of recyled objects

Clay Kimonos/Slab

Cultural Fashion

Principles and Elements of Design

Japanese Culture/artworks

Students will sketch Special Needs: students may work out designs they with a partner may use for their Gifted/Talented: students will create a project more detailed Kimono

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Silhouette Sculpture

Bestiary

Examples of 3D artwork/ images of animals

Kara Walker

Students will practice drawing silhouettes

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Special Needs: students will need assistance cutting the mat board and using hot glue Gifted/Talented: students will be required to give their bestiary sculptures human characteristics

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Column1 Technique/Product

Column2 Theme/Diversity

Column3 Visual Culture

Column4 Aesthetics/Art History/Art Criticism Self-Portrait Pieces

Column5 Journal

Column6 Special Needs Special Needs: Individual Conferences with the students Gifted/Talented: incorporate two different shading techniques in the image

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Self-Portrait Drawings, Shading

Identity

Image of yourself

Practice different shading techniques

Drawing Book of the Outdoors/Oil Pastels

Egyptian Stories

Egyptian culture

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Create own symbols to provide a story

Special Needs: work with a partner Gifted/Talented: no need for modification

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Recycled Cups, Tissue Vases

Abstract collage

Turning nature into abstraction

Abstract art

What does recycling do to the environement? Sketch design in journal

Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: use a larger cup for more intricate designs

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Chenille Stem Stitchery Preparing for sewing Abstract design Joan Miro Choose a color Special Needs: allow break time scheme from the color Gifted/Talented: create a specific design within wheel the stitchery Misty Trees/Watercolor Shadows and Highlights Images of trees in different seasons Impressionism Special Needs: Individual conferences with students Gifted/Talented: choose two different seasons to create misty trees other than one

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Silk Screen Prints

Restaurant Advertisement

Sketch image in Food How color attracts journal and explain advertisements people how you are drawing from magazines in the viewer

Special Needs: work with a partner Gifted/Talented: use 3 different types of stenciling

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Images of graffiti found on streets Sketch the design of the tag in the journal Special Needs: work with a partner, make sure student is using proper safety materials Gifted/Talented: Create a unique design to go with the tag Still Life SelfInterests/different cultures Personal Objects How do the objects in Audrey Flack still the still life represent life paintings yourself? Special Needs: use a photograph image along with actual object Gifted/Talented: same still life, but abstracted

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Graffiti/Spray Paint

Personal Tags

Is graffiti art?

30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Example of quilts History/uses of quilts it different cultures Sketch the design of Special Needs: work with a partner when sewing the quilt in the Gifted/Talented: help others who may need it journal/ what colors with sewing will help it unify? Distored Ball Portraits Identity Image of yourself/images Picasso/Munch's of Picasso Scream Portraits Special Needs: Simplify the self-portrait form Gifted/Talented: on the other side of the ball show the back of your head

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Collage Quilts

Color Theory

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43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 Different types of chairs based on people in society and their status Special Needs: Individual conferences with Sketch the design of students your own personal Gifted/Talented: add other materials to the chair chair that creates a unifying theme Quilling Paper Murals Enviornmental Issues Mural artworks Sketch the design of the mural in the journal Special Needs: no need for modification Gifted/Talented: students can act as the "manager" of the group

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Wire Chairs

Chair Identity

Joseph Kosuth

54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 Clay Slab Mugs Geometric and Organic Shapes Household Ceramic Mugs Funtional art as Fine art Design a mug and Special Needs: work with a partner when using include a portrait of clay tools yourself, family Gifted/Talented: create two mugs, one geometric member, or pet and one organic Plaster Masks Concealing identity Mardi Gras Mardi Gras Carnivals Sketch out your design for the mask Special Needs: allow break for students Gifted/Talented: either create a mask without using the entire mold, or add plaster onto the mask