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II. Lesson Plans and Activities
Lesson 3: Planning and Creating Your Art
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
What are the advantages of using art (non-linguistic
communication) instead of written or verbal means of
conveying ideas? Personal and cultural introspection is the first step
toward global competency.
How does the process of creating art give perspective
on one’s own culture? Art is a universal language that can convey cultural
norms and values.
Activity
Description and Important Points
Materials
1. Introducing
“Our
Environment,
My Culture" a. Using the ArtLink “Our Environment, My Culture” handout,
introduce the theme.
b. Discuss the ways that “nature and culture” are interrelated and how
“our environment influences our daily lives.”
c. Ensure students understand that the subject of their artwork
should be a meaningful scene from their day-to-day lives, and
that takes place in their natural environment.
d. For advanced students, emphasize the opportunity to go beyond
only illustrating a specific activity to address their concerns about
the well-being of the environment now or in the future, and what
might be needed to tackle those environmental challenges.
2. Re-examining
the Sample
Artwork a. Re-examine together the six examples of art found in Lesson 1 to
discover how each one depicts a meaningful activity that depends
on the natural environment where it takes place.
b. Examine if and how the quality of the environment in each case is
vital to the activity being carried out there.
c. Review the values expressed by each artist to rediscover those that
include (in some form) environmental stewardship.
a. Students use the “Our Environment, My Culture” Planning
Worksheet to develop sketches that illustrate their selected activity
and values, sketches that include cultural and environmental
details and the “who, what, and where” of the scene.
a. Students should confer with their teacher regarding final ideas
and available art media, tools, and techniques that will be used
to create final artwork.
b. Students work on and complete individual pieces.
3. Conceiving
and Planning
the Art
4. Creating
the Artwork
5. Artist
Description
Sheet (ADS)
a. Students complete the ADS, reflecting on their own artwork.
b. Attach the ADS to the student’s final artwork.
ArtLink
"Our
Environment,
My Culture"
Theme
handout
Cultural Art
and Analysis
Worksheets
1-6
ArtLink
"Our
Environment,
My Culture"
Planning
Worksheet
Necessary
materials for
chosen art
medium
ArtLink Artist
Description
Sheet (ADS)
ArtLink Tool Box: Strategies for Deeper Understanding
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Hold a Class Critique or Gallery Walk. By describing, explaining, comparing and analyzing, students discuss the
cultural norms and values illustrated in their classmates’ artwork.
Check the U.S. Grade Level Learning Standards for specific objectives for age/grade appropriate content.
US Learning Standards
Addressed Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11 -12
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