Positive Impact

Rebecca Zastrow
Walker-Winter & Roosevelt
McGrath Elementary
1
st
Grade Unit Plan:
Jobs through Art
Students will:
Identify an illustrator as a job in the art field
Explain the job of an illustrator
Utilize black and white paint to create shades and
tints of colors painted onto the paper
Create painted sheets of paper to be assembled and
layered into images
Collaborate as a class to write a story
Illustrate a scene of a book
Objectives to Standards
1B. Use art material and tools safely and responsibly.
1C. Use visual characteristics and organizational principles of art to
communicate ideas.
2A. Apply knowledge of materials, techniques, and processes to
create artwork.
2B. Apply knowledge of how visual characteristics and
organizational principles communicate ideas.
2E. Know different purposes of visual art to creatively convey ideas.
3B. Identify various purposes for creating works of visual art.
5A. Explain how visual arts have inherent relationships to everyday
life.
5B. Identify various careers in the visual arts.
5D. Identify connections between the visual arts and other
disciplines in the curriculum.
Pre- Assessment
The students were given a pre-test at the
beginning of the school year in which they were
asked:
Which is a JOB for an artist?
A. Firefighter
B. Illustrator
C. Truck Driver
Results
95% chose firefighter or truck driver
leaving only 5% choosing illustrator
Week 1
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Discussed tints and shades
Painted large sheets of paper
Week 2
The Very Artistic Caterpillar
Write story
Illustrate match pictures to the words
Week 3
Illustrate pictures
Shapes
Paintings

These pages were copied and assembled into a book
for each student to take home
Growth
Each student was able to identify Illustrator as a
job for an artist.

Each student illustrated their own page.

Along with help from their classroom teacher,
the students were able to identify the
occupation of an illustrator in a song
(Sung to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell)
The author writes the words, the author writes
the words, hi-ho the derry-o the author writes
the words.

The illustrator draws, the illustrator draws, hi-ho
the derry-o the illustrator draws.

The publisher puts pages together, the publisher
puts pages together, hi-ho the derry-o the
publisher puts pages together.

Objectives
Identify an illustrator as a job in
the art field
Explain the job of an illustrator
Utilize black and white paint to
create shades and tints of
colors painted onto the paper
Create painted sheets of paper
to be assembled and layered
into images
Collaborate as a class to write a
story
Illustrate a scene of a book

Standards
1B. Use art material and tools safely
and responsibly.
1C. Use visual characteristics and
organizational principles of art to
communicate ideas.
2A. Apply knowledge of materials,
techniques, and processes to create
artwork.
2B. Apply knowledge of how visual
characteristics and organizational
principles communicate ideas.
2E. Know different purposes of visual
art to creatively convey ideas.
3B. Identify various purposes for
creating works of visual art.
5A. Explain how visual arts have
inherent relationships to everyday life.
5B. Identify various careers in the
visual arts.
5D. Identify connections between the
visual arts and other disciplines in the
curriculum.