TRENTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
GRADE 2 VISUAL ARTS CURRICULUM GUIDE
Unit 6: Element of Value
Grade level: Second Grade
“I can” Statement: I can identify the element of value and use it in an artwork based on a famous work of art and/or piece of literature.
Stage 1: Desired ResultsGoals: (Related Performance Standards):
By the end of Second Grade, students will:
- Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem.
- Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.
- Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
- Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.
- Repurpose objects to make something new.
- Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.
- Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.
- Distinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation.
- Analyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contributes to communities.
- Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments
- Categorize images based on expressive properties.
- Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form.
- Use learned art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork.
- Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life
Enduring Understandings:
(Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.)
- Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
- Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
- Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
- Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
- People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
- Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.
- Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
- Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
- Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
- Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
- People evaluate art based on various criteria.
- Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
- People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Questions:
(Anchor Standard 1)
- What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?
- What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
- How does collaboration expand the creative process?
- How does knowing the contexts histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design?
- Why do artists follow or break from established traditions?
- How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic responses?
- How do artists work?
- How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective?
- How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
- How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment?
- Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment?
- How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities?
- How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems?
- How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?
- What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work?
- How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms?
- How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
- How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art?
- How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world?
- What can we learn from our responses to art?
- What is an image?
- Where and how do we encounter images in our world?
- How do images influence our views of the world?
- How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art?
- How and why might criteria vary?
- How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
- How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives?
- How does making art attune people to their surroundings?
- How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?
- How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures?
- How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
What Key Knowledge and Skills will Students acquire as a result of this unit?
Content:
- Introduction to different art media and how to properly use them
- Identify where values are in object in life and in art
- Demonstrate how to create tints and shades
- Experimenting with different values
- Practice in critique and evaluating art work
- Practice in discussing art works and aesthetics
Creating:
VA: Cr 1.1.2a :
Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem.
VA: Cr 1.2.2a :
Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.
VA: Cr 2.1.2a :
Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
VA: Cr 2.2.2a:
Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.
VA: Cr 2.3.2a :
Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.
Presenting:
Analyzing: VA:Pr5.1.2a:
Distinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation.
Sharing: VA:Pr6.1.2a:
Analyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contributes to communities.
Perceiving:
VA: Re.7.1.2a :
Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.
VA:Re.7.2.2a :
Categorize images based on expressive properties.
Synthesize:
VA: Cn10.1.2a :
Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life.
VA:Cn11.1.2a :
Compare and contrast cultural uses of artwork from different times and places. / Skills: Student Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Discuss the role of artists and describe how artwork is used to communicate stories, ideas and emotions that are reflections of their place in history and culture (e.g., narrative paintings of everyday life by Horace Pippin, Grandma Moses, Norman Rockwell, EdouardManet, or narrative art found in the Lascaux cave paintings, early Egyptian reliefs, Inuit art etc.).
- Discuss the lineage of famous artists and their connection to cultures past and present (e.g., Grant Wood’s American Gothic and the influence of European culture and painting traditions; Pablo Picasso’s collage Three Musicians influenced by Italian Comedia dell Arte characters; Sugar Cane, a portable mural by Diego Rivera portraying the harsh reality of the life of the ordinary Mexican farm worker before the 1911 agrarian revolution. Rivera’s murals of this period were directly influenced by Aztec storytelling; or Red Groom’s three-dimensional construction, Ruckus Manhattan – homage to cubism influenced by comics and political cartoons).
- Identify the characteristics of exemplary works of visual art, and identify characteristics of the artists who created them (e.g., gender, age, absence or presence of training, style, etc.).
- Describe how the subject matter chosen by the artists for a particular artwork(s) is used to convey the purpose or intent of the artwork(s) (e.g., to celebrate, to replicate, to create and emotion of personal response, etc.).
- Compare and contrast culturally and historically diverse works art that evoke an emotion, and identify the subject matter and purpose for the works. Describe how the subject matter contributes to the purpose.
- Use their imagination to create a story based on an arts experience. Write and illustrate an original shore story based on the arts experience.
- Describe how nature is reflected in various works of art. Describe how the artist and/or the work of art incorporates elements (e.g., color, line, shape, and texture) found in nature into the work of art.
- Identify, select and define those elements and principals of design (e.g., line shape, color, texture, repetition, rhythm, emphasis, balance) that help create a good work.
- Recognize that individuals have different opinions about various works of art by sharing individual responses for liking or disliking specific aspects of a particular work of art.
- Identify various subjects and themes in works of art, and verbalize simple reasons liking/disliking parts of the content of the work of art.
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence
What evidence will show that students understand?
Performance Task Options: Students understand the importance of elements of value;
SLO: / -Students collaboratively examine and respond to a diverse selection of artworks.
-Students select from a variety of provided materials and tools to create an artwork that communicates personal interests. -Students present their art works and discuss why they are meaningful to them.
-Students group their artworks based on identified similarities and share reasons for the groupings.
TRENTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
GRADE 2 VISUAL ARTS CURRICULUM GUIDE
Unit 7: Element of Space
Grade level: Second Grade
“I can” Statement: I can identify the element of space and use it in an artwork based on a famous work of art and/or piece of literature.
Stage 1: Desired ResultsGoals: (Related Performance Standards):
By the end of Second Grade, students will:
- Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem.
- Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.
- Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
- Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.
- Repurpose objects to make something new.
- Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.
- Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.
- Distinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation.
- Analyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contributes to communities.
- Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments
- Categorize images based on expressive properties.
- Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form.
- Use learned art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork.
- Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life
Enduring Understandings:
(Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.)
- Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
- Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
- Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
- Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
- People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
- Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.
Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve
(Anchor Standard 5: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
- Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
- Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
- Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
- Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
- Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
- People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Questions:
(Anchor Standard 1)
- What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?
- What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
- How does collaboration expand the creative process?
- How does knowing the contexts histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design?
- Why do artists follow or break from established traditions?
- How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic responses?
- How do artists work?
- How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective?
- How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
- How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment?
- Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment?
- How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities?
- How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems?
- How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?
- What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work?
- How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms?
- How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
- What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer?
- What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
- What is an art museum? How does the presenting & sharing of objects, artifacts, & artworks influence & shape ideas, beliefs, & experiences?
- How do objects, artifacts, & artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation & understanding?
- What is an art museum? How does the presenting & sharing of objects, artifacts, & artworks influence & shape ideas, beliefs, & experiences?
- How do objects, artifacts, & artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation & understanding?
- How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art?
- How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world?
- What can we learn from our responses to art?
- What is an image?
- Where and how do we encounter images in our world?
- How do images influence our views of the world?
- How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives?
- How does making art attune people to their surroundings?
- How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?