Course/Subject by Grade: Elementary School Art - Kindergarten Unit: Discover Form
| Program Outcomes for Unit | Instructional Outcomes | Suggested Activities | Vocabulary | Assessment | Resources |
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Outcome I: Perceiving and Responding - Aesthetic Education The student will demonstrate the ability to perceive, interpret, and respond to ideas, experiences, and the environment. I.A. The student will identify and describe observed form. I.A.1 The student will identify and describe qualities of size, line, shape, color, and texture of observed visual forms. I.A.2. The student will identify and describe the content and meaning of observed form visual forms. I.C The student will discover a variety of ways that artists organize the elements of art in responding to what they see. I.C.1The student will describe different ways that artists organize elements in compositions. Outcome II: Historical, Cultural, and Social Contexts The student will demonstrate understanding of the visual arts as a basic aspect of history and human experiences. 2.A The student will determine ways in which works of art express ideas about self, people, places, and events. II.A.1 The student will discover how images and forms were used by the people who created them by studying selected artworks of different times and places. 2.B The student will classify reasons why people create and use art by studying artworks and other sources of information. |
Discover and identify form as a work of art. | Teacher defines form as a 3-D object that has many sides. Provide real examples like a sphere, cube, cylinder, pyramid and others. Have students identify similar forms in the environment. (E) Provide examples of sculptures or prints illustrating sculptures. Identify the forms that they see. (M) Students can discover form using a wide variety of sculpture media. Allow the students to experiment with clay, sponges, cardboard and other found objects. Have the students create different types of buildings and compare to photographs of architectural structures. (ID) Using a safe bubble medium, have students blow bubbles outside and watch the spheres form in a variety of sizes and colors of the spectrum. |
Form Flat 2D 3D Sculpture Height Width Depth Natural Man-made Sphere Cube Cylinder Pyramid Rectangular prism Construct architecture |
Teacher assessment Group critiques Monitor student use and application of vocabulary. Monitor student use of materials |
Claes Oldenburg Hamburger Louise Nevelson Sky Cathedral Alexander Calder Circus Henry Moore Reclining Mother and Child Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water Egyptian pyramids Christo Valley Curtain Spiral Jetty Surrounded Islands Biscayne Bay |
Unit continues teaching all indicators identified.
| M - Multicultural | T - Technology | ID - Interdisciplinary |
| LM - Library Media | MO - Modifications | C - Career Education |
| E - Environmental Education | MI- Multiple Intelligence | G/T - Enrichment |