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Art Works!

Author: Sharon John  4/27/2006 8:59:00 AM PDT		 TaskStream - Tools of Engagement

VITAL INFORMATION
Subject(s):
Art, History, Research, Social Studies
 
Grade/Level:
1-3
 
 
Summary:
This unit covers the human development of art. It starts in cave art and goes through modern art. As a culminating project, students recreate a masterpiece that is then auctioned at an evening event.
 
IMPLEMENTATION
Learning Activities:
1.  1. Art Starts
  The start of artistic expression in humans, back to cave life. (2 weeks)
 
2.  2. Art in the Middle
  Artistic skill and styles from middle ages to early America. (1.5 weeks)
 
3.  3. American Realism before photography
  Realistic art in America through 1850. (1 week)
 
4.  4. Art in America, post 1850
  Learning about changes in art in America, including artists like Georgia O'Keeffe. (1 week)
 
5.  4b. Jacob Lawrence and the Great Depression: A cross age lesson
  A lesson with older students about Lawrence and his art. (1 day)
 
6.  5. Final Project: masterpieces & their artists
Masterpieces, created by each student.  See images in gallery. (2-3 weeks)
 
 
   
 
ASSESSMENT & STANDARDS
 
Standards compiled from learning activities:
WA- Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements
• Subject : Arts
The Arts Defined - The arts are creative expressions using sound, image, action and movement. They are a means to satisfy the human need to communicate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Purpose - The arts engage those capacities most characteristically human -- imagination, creativity, the ability to conceptualize and solve complex problems -- by stimulating thinking skills which are essential to learning. The arts are catalysts for change. They are vital in this rapidly changing multi-media age. They facilitate and encourage the exchange of diverse views, reflecting and shaping cultures. As technology changes, so do the tools and materials of the arts. Students are prepared through visual arts, music, drama, and dance to interact effectively in a dynamic world, with joy, confidence, and a sense of fulfillment. The Arts and Education - Whether our civilization can remain dynamic, nurturing, and successful will ultimately depend on how well and how fully we develop the capacities of our children, not only to earn a living but to live a life rich in meaning.
• Standard 3:  The student communicates through the arts
• Area : 3.1 use the arts to express and present ideas and feelings
• Benchmark / Grade : Benchmark 2
 Performance Expectation : express ideas and feelings using artistic symbols in a variety of styles and forms
• Area : 3.2 use the arts to communicate for a specific audience and purpose
• Benchmark / Grade : Benchmark 2
 Performance Expectation : determine the interests and needs of an audience and select materials/presentation
 Performance Expectation : use the arts for a range of purposes such as advertisement and commemoration
• Subject : Social Studies
• Division: Geography
• Standard : 3. The student observes and analyzes the interaction between people, the environment, and culture.
• Area : 3.3 Examine cultural characteristics, transmission, diffusion, and interaction
• Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5
 Performance Expectation : 3.3.1a Know that people are born into societies that consist of different racial, ethnic, religious, and/or social groups (Location, Region, Place)
 Performance Expectation : 3.3.1b Identify the ways cultural traditions are expressed through artistic creations and use of the environment (Five Themes)
 Performance Expectation : 3.3.1c Recognize the positive and negative outcomes that can result when people of different cultural backgrounds interact and understand how an awareness of cultural traditions can help in cross-cultural communication (Five Themes)
• Division: History
• Standard : 1. The student examines and understands major ideas, eras, themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect relationships in United States, world, and Washington State history.
• Area : 1.1 Understand and analyze historical time and chronology
• Benchmark / Grade : Benchmark 1 – Grade 5
 Performance Expectation : 1.1.1b Identify and analyze relationships between historical events
• Benchmark / Grade : Benchmark 2 – Grade 8
 Performance Expectation : 1.1.2b Using evidence for support, identify, analyze, and explain possible causal factors contributing to given historical events
• Area : 1.2 Understand events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping United States, world, and Washington State history
• Benchmark / Grade : Benchmark 2 – Grade 8
 Performance Expectation : Washington State History- WA1.2.2 Identify and analyze the contributions of the following eras in the development of Washington State:
  • The emergence of Washington State (statehood-1930)
  • The Great Depression and World War II (1930-1945)
  • Post World War II domestic political, social, and economic issues (1945-1980)
  • Contemporary Washington (1980-present)

    • • Area : 1.3 Examine the influence of culture on United States, world, and Washington State history
    • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5
     Performance Expectation : 1.3.1 Describe the contributions of people from various cultural groups to the development of local, Washington State, and U.S. history
    • Standard : 2. The student understands the origin and impact of ideas and technological developments on history.
    • Area : 2.1 Compare and contrast ideas in different places, time periods, and cultures, and examine the interrelationships between ideas, change, and conflict (cross reference with the themes and topics outlined under the United States, world, and Washington State history headings)
    • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5
     Performance Expectation : 2.1.1 Explain how an idea has affected the way people live
    • Area : 2.2. Understand how ideas and technological developments influence people, culture, and environment
    • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5
     Performance Expectation : 2.2.1 Describe instances in which new technology has led to changes in values, beliefs, and attitudes
     
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