Overview and Background: Unit: Weather Gallery

Michaeline Kohler : Cheney USD 268

Art, Drama, Music. : Art, Drama, Music. : Art, Drama, Music.

Cheney : Grades 2 - 2 : Aug. - Jun.

Title:	Weather Gallery
Topics:	Elements and Principles of Design
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-
Status:	Draft
Date Revised:

Other Designers:

Summary:
Students will create a painting showing a weather condition using the elements and principles of design.

Print Materials Needed:
Art reproductions that show weather conditions. Books about artists (i.e. Grandma Moses).

Resources:

Resource Attachments:

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Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	National Standard
Title:
Standard(s):	Visual Arts Standard #2 -All students will use knowledge of structures and functions. Visual Arts Standard #4 -All students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

Understandings:
user	Artists make intentional decisions about how they arrange lines, shapes, forms, colors, values and textures in art.

Essential Questions:
User	How do artists use the elements and principles of design to communicate their ideas?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
The elements and principles of design.
How to use the elements and principles in a work of art.

S
Identify the elements and principles of design in other artist's work

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Students will use watercolors to create a painting that shows a certain weather condition.

Other Evidence:
Students will identify the elements of design in famous artist's work, magazine ads and children's books.
Second graders will look out the window and discuss the weather and what are the clues to identify different conditions.

Task/Prompt: Weather painting

Type: Performance Task

Topics: Elements and Principles of Design

Summary:
Students will use watercolors to create a painting that shows a certain weather condition.

Print Materials Needed:

Resources:

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:
Link 1: http://
Link 2: http://
Link 3: http://
Link 4: http://
Link 5: http://

Notes:

Student Directions:
You will be a landscape painter for the new "Weather Art Gallery". You must decide which gallery in the museum your painting will hang. Create a painting that will fit in the "Windy Gallery", "Snowy Gallery" or the "Sunny Gallery."
Your painting must be accurate so that a curator knows which gallery to hang your work.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
Students will critique several pieces of artwork using the elements and principles of design. They will look for weather conditions in the work.

H
Display Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night". Discuss how Van Gogh shows the windy weather. Have a student stand in front of a fan and discuss what happens to hair and clothes. Books of other landscape artists will be on display.

E
Generate a list of objects in a landscape that need to change according to the weather. Students plan their own landscape and weather condition. Students may use ideas from the artwork displayed or create their own unique ideas.

R
How does the artist use line, color and the other elements of design in their painting? (ex. dark sky to show cold weather)

E
You will be a landscape painter for the new "Weather Art Gallery". You must decide which gallery in the museum your painting will hang. Create a painting that will fit in the "Windy Gallery", "Snowy Gallery" or the "Sunny Gallery". Your painting must be accurate so that a curator knows which gallery to hang your work.

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