CSUF ART EDUCATION LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Teacher: Ms. Simon

Unit Title: Content in Art
Lesson Title: Cardboard Portrait Relief Introduction
Class: 3D Art and Design
Time: 55 Minutes
Grade Level: 9th-12th

Equipment/Materials:
- Google Slides
- Computer
- Presentation Clicker (Remote)
- Projector
- Whiteboard & Pens (variety of colors)
- Pencils
- Highlighters
- Notebook Paper (Cornell/Focus Notes)
- Exit Slip Handout
- Guided Cornell/Focus Notes (Certain Students)

Instructional Strategies:
Direct Instruction / Lecture
Individual Practice / Cornell/Focus Notetaking
Cooperative Learning / Think-Pair-Share (Twice)
Problem Solving / Collaborate on a prompt given towards a job project

Teacher Preparation (What you will need to get ready before class):
- Set up/Prepare Google Slides Lecture
- Collect Supplies
- Prepare/ Print/Cut/ Organize Handouts (Exit Slip, Guided Cornell/Focus Notes)
- Prepare all supplies for the lecture
- Check the Presentation Remote that it works, has batteries

Behavioral Objectives (What will students be able to do):

• Students will individually engage in interactive notetaking to a lecture titled “Cardboard
Pizza Relief Portrait Introduction” and demonstrating the techniques of Cornell
notetaking. Students will then apply and demonstrate the lecture understanding by
completing three questions.
• In a group of four, students will engage in higher-order thinking, through oral
collaborative discussion, using think-pair-share to brainstorm, synthesize, collect ideas,
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 organize, plan and write down ideas to a prompt given to them, which consists of artists
investigating in multiple approaches in creating a life size sculpture. Students will also
shape artistic investigations to problem solve.

California Content Standards:

Visual Arts Standards

CREATING—Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

1.1 Enduring Understanding: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that
can be developed.
Process Component: Imagine, Plan
Prof.VA:Cr1.1: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.

CREATING—Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

1.2 Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or
breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Process Component: Imagine, Plan
Prof.VA:Cr1.2: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present day life using a
contemporary practice of art or design.

ELD STANDARDS:

ELD Standards for Grades 9th -12th and for Grades 11th-12th:
Grades 9th -10th
Gr.9-10:PI.A.1.Ex
Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
A. Collaborative
1. Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a
range of social and academic topics.
Gr.9-10:PI.A.3.Em
3. Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative
exchanges.

Grades 11th -12th

Gr.10-11:PI.A.1.Ex
Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
A. Collaborative
1. Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a
range of social and academic topics.

Gr.10-11:PI.A.3.Em
3. Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative
exchanges.

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ADAPTATIONS and DIFFERENTED INSTRUCTION
Identify the instructional strategies you will utilize. Describe the strategies as needed.

English Learners –

Identify key vocabulary / Google Slides Lecture will define vocabulary

Graphic organizers / Cornell Notetaking
Time to work with partner / Share Notes and Think-Pair-Share
Dictionaries available
Pictures, objects, videos visuals available / Google Slide Lecture

Struggling Readers-

Vocabulary help / Google Slides Lecture will define vocabulary, with examples
Word banks with definitions / On their Cornell Notetaking
Graphic organizers / Cornell Notetaking
Oral material provided / Lecture will be given orally
Time to work with partner / Share Notes and Think-Pair-Share

Resource Students (Students with Disabilities)

Identify key vocabulary / Google Slides Lecture will define vocabulary

Graphic organizers / Guided Cornell Notetaking
Time to work with partner / Share Notes and Think-Pair-Share
Dictionaries available
Pictures, objects, videos visuals available / Google Slide Lecture

Advanced Students - CHALLENGE

Advanced students can help and lead group discussions during think-pair-share

Performance List/Task, Scoring Rubric and Check Off List can all be found at the end of
the lesson.

ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES (Each lesson must include all three forms of assessments):

Entry Level (to find out prior knowledge, skill level):

How will you find out this information?
• Students will receive a handout with questions the day before the lesson.
What kind of feedback will students receive?
• Students will see the class results on how much they know and together we will
share our thoughts.

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 How will this influence your teaching?
• I will be able to know where my students are in the knowledge and this will help
me in make sure my students will be successful

Progress Monitoring (making sure that all students understand and make steady progress):
How will you check for this?
• I will circulate the room to monitor and check for understanding and I will listen
in on group conversations during think-pair-share activities.
What kind of feedback will students receive?
• They will receive additional instructions if needed
How will this influence your teaching?
• I will be able to see where the students are and if I will need to in the moment
reteach anything before moving on to the next step.

Summative (measuring whether students have met the standards based objectives):
How will you measure this?
• For the lesson closure I will use an exit slip
What kind of feedback will students receive?
• Students will find out if they where able to process and reflect on information
learned from the lesson.
How will this influence your teaching?
• This will provide me with important feedback on the students understanding and
it will guide me on instructional decision making and will help me to determine if
I must reteach in certain areas.

Connection to the world at large:

Each lesson must include a link to something more expansive like art history, aesthetics,
Social culture, advertising, etc., or another discipline / subject

What is your connection or link?

• Students will be given a prompt: “You are a professional cardboard artist. You
have a studio, and you have the money to buy all the necessary supplies and tools.
Your boss just gave you and your partner/group a new project. You are meeting
with your partner/group to discuss and collect ideas. Brainstorm, organize, plan
and write down your ideas for a life size sculpture, using cardboard. What would
be the steps you would need to do, and what materials and tools would you use to
create your sculpture?”

What do you expect students to learn from this and why is it important?
• I expect students to learn, in the real world, on how to work with their colleagues
on a project given to them by their boss. To learn how to collaborate, plan,

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 organize, share ideas, brainstorm, work together with colleagues as a team,
discuss and problem solve.
• This is important because it will help them built many skills and be ready for real
future jobs.

How and when will you introduce these connections / links?

• Towards the end of the lecture students will thin-pair-share in group of 3-4 people
and they will be given the prompt to complete.

THE LESSON – Short one paragraph description of the lesson

• Students will take Cornell notes during the lecture, to learn new vocabulary terms,
such as relief sculpture, corrugated cardboard. They will learn the different layers
of cardboard and the different types of relief sculpture. Students will work in a
think-pair-share activity to collaborate on a prompt that will be given to them,
linked to a real word job.

LESSON INTRODUCTION: ( 5 min)

Details of how you will introduce the lesson (may start with an entry level assessment)
• Before we start the lesson, we will start with the agenda/expectations for the day,
which will be project on the screen.
• We will start the lesson by going over the results from the Entry Level
Assessment handout that was given to the students the day before.
• I will be using a “hook”, to get the students ready and engage in the google slide
lecture and introduce to them in simple details on what their next art project is.
• I will model and demonstrate on how to do Cornell Notetaking before we start the
lecture.

Daily Lesson Introduction:

More related to classroom management and reminders for daily goals and activities
• Students will be reminded on what is expected of them as we move on from
activity to activity.
• Students will be reminded to stay on task and participate in lesson and group
activities.

BODY OF THE LESSON: ( 45 min )

Use bulleted points, organized for you to use when teaching the lesson, with large enough type
that you can see it
Tells what you will do and what students will do and estimated timing / length for each activity

• Slide 10 of Lecture: Cardboard

o Discovered accidently by Robert Gair
▪ An American printer
o Corrugated Cardboard
▪ Versatile packaging material
▪ Millions of tons used each year to protect and display products
▪ Stiff, strong, lightweight

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 ▪ Made up of three layers of brown kraft paper
▪ Recycling 1 ton of cardboard saves 46 gallons of oil.
• Slide 11: Layers of Cardboard
o Four basic kinds of combined boards
▪ Single Face Board
▪ Single Wall Board
▪ Double Wall Board
▪ Triple Wall Board

• Slide 12: Time to Share ( 2 min )

o 1. Choose a partner next to you or in front of you.
o 2. Compare Notes

• Slide 13: Relief

o Sculptural technique where the elements remain attached to a solid
background of the same material.
o Term Relief, from the Latin verb Relievo, to raise.
o To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted
material has been raised above the background.
o Relief sculpture meant to be viewed frontally, not in the round

• Slide 14: Different Reliefs

o Low (Base) Relief
▪ Forms extends (or projects) slightly from the background
o High Relief
▪ Forms extend (or project) at least half or more from the
background
o Mid Relief
▪ Falls between the low and high relief forms.

• Slide 15: Low Relief Visual Examples

• Slide 16: Mid Relief Visual Examples
• Slide 17: High Relief Visual Examples
• Slide 18: 3 Dimensional Visual Examples
• Slide 19: Chris Gilmour
o British Artist, living in Italy
o Creates Life Size realistic cardboard sculptures

• Slide 20: Famous Artist

o Used to use sculpting materials, such as wood, bronze, stone
o He would make models first from cardboard, realized cardboard was great
on its own
o He is fascinated by everyday objects, that’s his inspiration to create
o It takes him about 3-6 months to create on sculpture
o One sculpture can consist of 4,000 pieces or more
o His work can be found in galleries, in Italy, France and New York

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 • Slide 21: What’s Next / Think-Pair-Share ( 5 min )
o 1. Get in a group of 3 to 4 people or with a partner
o 2. You are a professional cardboard artist. You have a studio, and you
have the money to buy all the necessary supplies and tools.
o 3. Your boss Your boss just gave you and your partner/group a new
project. You are meeting with your partner/group to discuss and collect
ideas. Brainstorm, organize, plan and write down your ideas for a life size
sculpture, using cardboard. What would be the steps you would need to
do, and what materials and tools would you use to create your
sculpture? Write down your ideas on your notes.
o 4. You have 5 minutes

• Class comes back together after think-pair-share

o SHARE and REFLECT ( 2 min)
• Slide 22: Our Project
o Famous Person / Artist Portrait or Self Portrait
• Slide 23: Self Portrait Visual Examples made from Cardboard

LESSON CLOSURE: ( 5 min )

Should include review, reflection and connecting this lesson to past and
future lessons – help students to summarize and connect the lesson to the objective

• Slide 24: Exit Slip: Handout

o 1. Write two things about cardboard.
o 2. In your own words define relief and list two kinds of relief.
o 3. What is our Project?

Daily Closure:
More related to classroom management, cleanup, reminders
• Students will complete Exit Slip and clean up and will give me the exit slips on
their way out leaving the class.

LESSON EVALUATION AND REFLECTION:

Teacher’s notes for future changes for lesson improvement after teaching it
• During the lecture on Slide 11, I would implement more tactile learning and I
would do this by physically cutting up corrugated cardboard pieces and pass it out
to students so they can physically touch it, see it and they can rip apart the kraft
paper from the cardboard to expose corrugated layers.
• I would add a short 1-2-minute video, in the lecture google slide, on how
corrugated cardboard is made and recycled. I briefly talked about recycling in the
lecture but maybe implement a short video about recycling and this way I can
make a cross disciplinary connection with science and industrial art.

(All Handouts are below, at the end of the lesson)

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Name: __________________________________________________________ Per. __________

Rubric: Introduction to Cardboard Portrait Relief Sculpture

Score 1 2 3 4 Total
Topic Below Standard Approaching At Standard Above Standard Score
Standard
Notes was not Notes was Notes was Notes Completed
completed and did not somewhat completed with key correctly with all
Cornell include important key completed with ideas and important key ideas
Notes ideas and definitions definitions, but did definitions, but did with definitions and
and sketch drawing not include the not include the sketch drawing
sketch drawing sketch drawing
Student did not work Students Student Student demonstrated
Think as a team, only demonstrated demonstrated ability ability to work as a
Pare listened to discussion ability to be in a to work as a team team and respectfully.
but did not participate team but did not and respectfully, but Fully participated in
Share in the think-pair-share participate in the not fully participate think-pair-share activity
activity. Was not think-pare-share
respectful activity
One question was Two questions All questions were All questions were
Exit somewhat answered were answered answered somewhat answered correctly
Slip correctly correctly correctly

Possible Your
Score = Score =
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Check Off List : Think-Pair-Share Activity ✓ Check Off

Prompt: ““You are a professional cardboard artist. You have a studio, and you have the
money to buy all the necessary supplies and tools. Your boss just gave you and your
partner/group a new project. You are meeting with your partner/group to discuss and
collect ideas. Brainstorm, organize, plan and write down your ideas for a life size
sculpture, using cardboard. What would be the steps you would need to do, and what
materials and tools would you use to create your sculpture?”
1. Find a Group
2. Read the Prompt
3. Work together as a team, respect and listen to each other
4. Discuss, Brainstorm, Collect Ideas, Organize, Plan
5. Write down your ideas for a life size sculpture
6. Write down steps you would need to build a sculpture
7. Write down materials and tools you would need

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 Entry Level Assessment
Pizza Cardboard Portraits

1. On a Scale of 0-10, rate your experience using cardboard in an art project.

(0 = I never used cardboard in an art project, through 10 = I have used
cardboard many times)
circle one number - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2. On a scale of 0-10, rate your experience using an x-acto knife.

(0 = I have never used an x-acto knife, through 10 = I use an x-acto knife
every day)
circle one number - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3. On a scale of 0-10, rate your knowledge on relief sculpture.

(0 = I know nothing about relief sculptures, through 10 = I could teach a
lesson on relief sculptures)
circle one number - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4. On a scale of 0-10, rate your knowledge or experience creating portraits.

(0 = I know nothing about portraits, through 10 = I could teach a lesson on
portraits)
circle one number - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

5. On a scale of 0-10, rate your knowledge regarding famous artists.

(0 = I know nothing about famous artists, through 10 = I could teach a
lesson on famous artists)
circle one number - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Guided Cornell/Focus Notes Name ____________________ Per_____
Pizza Cardboard Portrait

Essential Questions: What is a cardboard relief sculpture and how do I

create one?
Main Idea/ Notes-
Key Points

Invention Robert Gair accidentally invented

Date___________________
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Corrugated Corrugated, versatile, stiff, strong, lightweight

3 layers of ___________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________

4 Basic Kinds of Single face, Single Wall double face, __________

Combined Board __________, and Triple______________.

Relief A relief is a wall-_________ sculpture in which

the three-dimensional elements are __________
from a flat base.

Sculpture elements remain_______________

attached to a solid background of the same
_________________.

The term relief is from the Latin verb, relievo, to

__________. To create a sculpture in the relief is
to give the impression that the sculpted material
has been _________ above the ____________.

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 Relief sculpture is meant to be viewed
________________, not in the round.

Different Reliefs Low (Base) Relief: the forms extend (or projects)
____________ from the _______________.

High Relief: the forms extend (or projects) at least

__________ or __________ from the
________________.

Mid Relief: the falls between the ___________

and the ____________ forms.

Chris Gilmour ___________ Artist living in Italy, creates

_______ _______ realistic ______________
Sculptures.

He used to use sculpting materials such as,

__________, ___________, and _________.
He would make a model first using
__________________ and realized that
cardboard was great on its own.

He is _________________ by every day

____________ and that’s what ____________
him to create his sculptures.
It takes him about ____ to _____ months to work
on one sculpture, which can consist of 4,000 pieces.

His exhibitions can be found in galleries in

__________, _______________ and
_______________________.

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Exit Slip Name ___________________________ Period_______

1. Write three things about cardboard.

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
2. In your own words define relief sculpture and list two kinds of reliefs.
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
3. What is Our Project? __________________________________________________________

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Exit Slip Name ___________________________ Period_______

1. Write three things about cardboard.

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
2. In your own words define relief sculpture and list two kinds of reliefs.
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
3. What is Our Project? __________________________________________________________

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Exit Slip Name ___________________________ Period_______

1. Write three things about cardboard.

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
2. In your own words define relief sculpture and list two kinds of reliefs.
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
3. What is Our Project? __________________________________________________________

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 Instructional Materials:
Google Slides, Lecture/Presentation: Cardboard Pizza Relief Portrait Introduction

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