Kayta Brown

November 20th, 2014

Art - Lesson #3
Subject: Art
Grade: Three/Four
Activity: Ted Harrison Paint Pictures
Total Time of Lesson: 60 minutes
Goals/Key questions: Question: How can I have students create a more advanced art
project while incorporating other aspects of school subjects as
well?

Goal: Students will start to create northern landscape pictures
inspired by Ted Harrison.
Objective (connected to PofS):
General Outcome:
Component 10 (ii) SUBJECT MATTER: Students will develop themes, with an emphasis
on personal concerns, based on:
A. Plants and animals
B. Environment and places
C. Manufactured or human-made things
D. Fantasy
E. People
Component 10 (iii): Media and Techniques: Students will use media and techniques,
with an emphasis on exploration and direct methods in drawing, painting, print
making, sculpture, fabric arts, photography, and technographic arts.
PURPOSE 4: Students will express a feeling or a message.
B. Specific messages, beliefs and interests can be interpreted visually, or symbolized.
PURPOSE 5: Students will create an original composition, object or space based on
supplied motivation.
A. Outside stimulation from sources such as music, literature, photographs, film,
creative movement, drama, television and computers can be interpreted visually.

Kayta Brown
November 20th, 2014

Specific Outcome:
B. Painting:
- Learn simple brush skills: holding and unloading the brush, applying paint, cleaning
the brush.
- Experiment with the medium to explore its possibilities.
- Work primarily with tempera paint or tempera paint with additives, using large
brushes to paint.
- Mix primary colours and lighten and darken colours.
Materials needed/pre-set-up required:
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Book: A Northern Alphabet

Other Arctic theme books
Laptops
Pencils
Scrap paper
Draft paper
Smartboard presentation

Activity/Time
Read a story
10 minutes
Introducing Ted
Harrison
5 minutes

What are the teacher/students doing?

We will read the story A Northern Alphabet, by Ted Harrison. I will
tell students to pay close attention to the images in the book and also
to ask questions with any words they do not know.
Next, I will pull up the smartboard presentation. I will start out by
showing students some of Ted Harrisons work, explaining to
students that Ted Harrison is an artist who does art work mostly of
pictures of northern Canada. I will point out to students that he does
not usually use the correct colors when painting something. His
colours are usually vibrant and mismatched from the real colors.

Introducing the
assignment
1 minute

I will explain to students that we are going to be painting pictures

inspired by Ted Harrisons art work! I will first start out by asking
students some of the things they saw in Ted Harrisons work - what
kinds of animals? The landscape? How were the people dressed?

Ideas about things

they could draw
about the north
10 minutes

I will go through all of the ideas and images that I found that might
inspire them for their projects. We will go through and talk about each
image.

Kayta Brown
November 20th, 2014

Activity/Time

What are the teacher/students doing?

Research: Info and

Activity
15-20 minutes

I will explain to them that now we are going to be researching some

ideas that they have. I will go over rules about using the computers
and I will also explain that they can look through the books I have
brought. I will also explain that they need a scrap piece of paper: on
one side they will write down their ideas, and on the other page they
will scribble down a rough sketch of what their ideas look like (How to
draw a caribou, or the mountains, etc.)

Rough Draft
15-20 minutes

I want them to get their vision on paper right after they have done
their research. Kids will come back to their desks and draw a rough
sketch of what they are imagining in their mind of what they would
like to draw. I will explain to them that these are our rough copies and
the purpose is simply to start getting an idea of what to draw.
However, they should also not rush through this. They should be
going through and adding details that they might want to add and do
not want to forget by next week.

Conclusion
2 minutes

I will explain to students that they need to write their names on both
their idea page and their rough copy and hand them in to me. We will
be working on our good copies for the next two classes.

Assessment: I will assess students on their understanding of Northern Canada and the
types of things that are there and assess if they understand the assignment by their
ideas and rough copies.
Modification: We may bring in the lap tops and we may not, depending on how we are
doing for time.
Extra Activity: Students will go around and look at some of their classmates ideas and
rough copies.

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