Lesson Plan 1

10/9/2020
Teachers: Ana (Main Teacher) and Brady (Assistant)

Big idea: Human Emotion

Project Description: Students will map/code prominent emotions with an ideation sheet. Students will be encouraged to explore their emotions and start their main projects for Lesson #2.

Essential Understandings:

Emotions are felt differently by different people.

I can use art to express my emotions.

I can express the way I feel, even when others want me to act differently.

Inquiry/Learning Target/Objectives:

Students will be able to connect certain emotions with certain colors and forms such as line, shape and symbol.

Students will be able to understand that their emotions are different from others around them.

Students will be able to use associative color to map/code the emotions that they experience.

Students will be able to use/construct a contour line of a side profile of themselves.

Key Concepts:

Emotion, Personal Expression

Skills/Art Methods/Techniques:

Self Expression, Creative process, Self-Portraiture, Planning/Ideation, Abstraction, and Associative Color

Art Vocabulary:

Associative Color
Contour Line
Silhouette Profile
Self Portraiture
Abstract

Literary Focus:

Possible book about emotions: Dr. Seuss: My Many Colored Days

Movie: Inside Out

Teacher preparation/materials:

Ideation worksheets
Paint (tempera)
Paintbrushes
Oil Pastels
Sponges
Paint Sticks
Toothbrushes
Paper plates
Pencils
Black Construction Paper

Student preparation/materials:

Clothes that they can get paint/chalk on
Pencil
Glue/Scissors

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