Hillsboroughcountypublic Schools, Tampa, Florida

Lesson Plan

HillsboroughCountyPublic Schools, Tampa, Florida

K-12 Art

Purpose Setting

Essential Learning: The students will learn. . . The difference between shape and form.
What the 3rd dimension is.
by drawing a fish from their imaginations after a read aloud
then by creating a 3 D form from their 2D drawing

Assessment

How will the students show what they have learned?Essential question answered verbally and with pictures in art journal.
What assessment strategies will be used? Drawing of character fish, art journal entries of vocabulary, clay fish sculpture, design and glazing projectand understanding of essential question.

Differentiated Instruction

What is your plan to make sure every student reaches the learning goal? Checking progress in journal and allowing them to verbalize their ideas to table partners with particular notice of ESE student’s progress.
Pre-assessment, environment, content, process, product/assessment. They will already have mastered shape concepts and will be able to review them in their journals. Product assessment will be self assessed.

This assignment is best accomplished after winter break when the first graders have had some experience entering information in their art journals.

Resources/Technology

KWL, Read Aloud (The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, Abby Winner), Examples of some funnycharacter fish on Mimeo Board

Materials

Individual journal, pencils, markers, clay, pointed sticks or pencils, zip lock plastic sandwich bags, assortment of non toxic glazes (bright colors), squares of cardboard to use as a work surface, small and medium brushes

Vocabulary

Shape is an enclosed line, 2Dimensional and flat. Organic shape does not have rules like geometric shapes in math. Drawing is making and using shapes with pencil, markers or crayon.2 Dimensional – length & width; 3 Dimensional- length & width & depth:Form- 3 dimensional object; Clay – moist dirt; Kiln – large very hot oven; Pinch Pot- method to create clay fish

Compare (how are they the same?)/ Contrast (how are they different?)

Applications to Life

The students will be using compare and contrast learning strategies throughout their school careers. Learning the difference or “contrast” will be essential to their progress.

Procedures

Lecture/Demonstration/Student Production

Make a smooth ball with your clay (approx 3” diameter)
Now pinch your thumbs inside the ball to make a small bowl smoothing out the edges and quickly placing it on the cardboard work surface. Explain that the more the clay is handled that it will slowly dry out and be difficult to pinch.
Leaving the bowl upside down on the cardboard pinch one end to make the tail fin being careful not to make it too thin as it will break easily during the drying process.
Now pinch a top or dorsal fin on your fish.
Using both hands pinch small side fins on either side at the same time.
Because fish have eyes on each side of their head (not in front like we do) using appointed stick or a pencil poke a hole for the eye on each side.
Now take your thumb and pinch the front bottom of your fish to make a fat lip. You may use your stick to make teeth.
The stick may also be used to make scales, gills and wavy lines on the fins.
Write your name on the bottom with the stick.
At any time that you must stop work and are not finished, place art in a sealed zip lock bag, with your name and teacher written in permanent marker.

Glazing:

Explain to them and show them what happens to the clay if they at this drying stage if they are not very careful. (It breaks into a sandy powder, and cannot be fixed: you will have to start over.)
Give them choices of two colors. Explain to them that this is not paint…that it will look different after it is put in the kiln and then show them what it might look like.
Give them one brush for each color and offer the glaze in small baby food jars.
Trade brushes with color.
Do not pick up jar from the top nor put near the edge of your work space.
Put brushes in water to clean.