Lesson Plan 2

Lesson #2

Big idea: Human Emotion

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Project Description: 

This lesson is a continuation of the last focus building on what students have planned from their emotion ideation sheets. It is important to understand that students' emotions and ideation plans will all be different.

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Essential Understandings:

I can express my emotion through art

I can express my emotion in art with many different materials

I can express my emotion through art when I can't express it other ways

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Inquiry/Learning Target/Objectives:

What emotions are you currently feeling?

Are you feeling/expressing multiple emotions?

How can you express your emotion or multiple emotions on your page?

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Key Concepts:

Emotion in Art, Associative Color, Identity 

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Skills/Art Methods/Techniques:

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

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Art Vocabulary:

• Associative Color

• Contour Line

• Silhouette Profile 

• Self Portraiture

• Abstract

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Literary Focus:

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

Movie: Inside Out

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Teacher preparation/materials:

• Tempera paint (various colors)

• Ideation worksheet

• Paintbrushes

• Paper (black and white)

• Water cups

• Possibly chalk or pastel

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Student preparation/materials:

• Clothes that they can get paint/chalk on

• Pencil

• Glue/Scissors

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