Museum London– Grade 5 Teacher: My Nguyen

What Will You Teach?Expectation(s): Strand: D1. Creating and Presenting- D1.4: “use a variety of materials, tools, and techniques to determine solutions to design challenge (e.g., …mixed media: a composite image that used photographs, photocopies, transfer, images, and selected opaque and transparent materials to reflect their self-identity).”D2. Reflecting, Responding, and Analyzing- D2.2: “ Explain how the elements and principles of design are used in their own and others’ art work to communicate meaning or understanding.”Learning Goal:D1.4: students will use different materials, tools, and techniques to solve a design challenge (e.g. mixed media: a collection of images that uses photographs, photocopies, transfer, and images to reflect their self-identity).D2.2: students will use the elements and principles of design to explain how it will communicate meaning or understanding to theirs and others’ artwork.

Materials and/or Resources:Thick paper and tracing paper, crayons, scissors, glue sticks, stencils to create textures and pencilImportant Terminology / Word Wall:Colour, texture, value, mixed media, characters, emotions,

How Will You Teach This? Assessment for learning

Minds On!Hook: Review with students the colour wheel and introduce the terms texture and mixed media. Introduce the assignment by showing a clip of “Finding Nemo” because as a class they will create an “Under the Sea Theme” displaying creatures that represent themselves through the use of colours and textures, collage and mixed media.

Diagnostic The students should already know the colour wheel.

Lesson Overview + Key Questions: 2-3 40 minutes lessons1. Introduce the lesson by showing two abstract paintings

that do not display anything explicitly but convey strong emotions and movement.

2. Ask students what they see in the painting, how they feel when they’re looking at it, and how the artist might have felt while painting it.

Sound Vibrations Bacchus Et NeptuneBy: Alexandra Luke by: Jean-Paul Riopelle

3. Introduce the assignment through a power point on the

Formative The abstract

painting is to reassure students that their artwork will look abstract and not representational.

Students are demonstrating their use of colour to capture themselves or a character and also, emotion and a sense of movement.

Students are capturing different type of textures to further enhance their characters.

smart board - review the colour wheel and introduce the terms: texture, and mixed media/collage. Questions: explain how through the use of colours and texture they can capture a sense of character (i.e. excited, funny, bored, happy and sad) Show a clip of “Finding Nemo” to display how colours and textures can represent a type of personality and character - this will lead into explaining the project: the class will create an “Under the Sea” theme that will represent who they are or a type of character they want to portray, the artworks will represent a school of fishes when displayed together.

4. I will demonstrate the art lesson step by step to the class through an example:

5. Activity: Step 1) the class will pick out their sea creature by tracing one of the stencils I’ve created or draw their own. Step 2) I will tell the students to take 5 pieces of paper and go around the classroom and capture 2 textures with 2 colours on one sheet of paper (they are not to go over the edge). They can use any colour or texture they wish but should keep in mind that it has to portray who they are or a character they are representing capturing a sense of personality, mood, movement, emotions, etc. Step 3) the students will trace their sea creature twice, once on thicker paper and the second time on tracing paper. Step 4) They will cut out the tracing paper to use as a stencil to trace over top of their textured/coloured paper and cut the shapes/features out and glue them onto the thicker paper.

6. As a class, the artworks will be display together to represent ‘a school of fishes!’

7. The students will present their sea creature to the class and explain their use of colours and texture that represent themselves or a character and how or if it does portray a specific emotion, movement or characteristics through the use of these techniques.

Students will demonstrate independent work but also, group work as they progress along in the artwork and help each other when needed.

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the colour wheel, texture, and mixed media/ collage.

Consolidation The students will be given an opportunity to share with

the class their sea creature and reflect on their use of colours and texture to capture a mixed media/collage that represents them or a character.

The class will comment on each other’s artwork and discuss where each student has succeeded in achieving the goals of the lesson.

Summative Rubric will be used

to assess their understanding of colour, texture, and mix media. The rubric will also evaluate their ability to use colour and texture in a mixed media composition to reflect their personality.

They will also be assessed on their oral representation of their sea

creature to the class or in a written paragraph. This can be a cross curricular exercise with language arts.

Students’ Sea Creatures

Rubric