A Picture is worth a thousand words
Art 295 | AIA Lesson Plan
Post Lesson created by Remy Groh
Grade: Second
No accommodations necessary
1 boy and 28 girls
Post Lesson created by Remy Groh
Grade: Second
No accommodations necessary
1 boy and 28 girls
Lesson Narrative:
Students will integrate the concepts they learned from their literacy lesson on decoding words with how they will piece together a collage. They will assemble pieces of colored construction paper, mimicking the process of breaking down and rearranging letters to make a word. The student will use their reconstructed words to create an interpretive scene from Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They will create their own version of one of the pages from his book without completely copying the whole image. They will take elements from the book like the caterpillar or the food that is mentioned and create a sentence using one or more of their reconstructed words from English class. At the end of the class period, students will discuss what color schemes/harmonies they used, emphasizing the reconstructed words and elements from the book that inspired them and reflecting on the additive process of collage.
Students will integrate the concepts they learned from their literacy lesson on decoding words with how they will piece together a collage. They will assemble pieces of colored construction paper, mimicking the process of breaking down and rearranging letters to make a word. The student will use their reconstructed words to create an interpretive scene from Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They will create their own version of one of the pages from his book without completely copying the whole image. They will take elements from the book like the caterpillar or the food that is mentioned and create a sentence using one or more of their reconstructed words from English class. At the end of the class period, students will discuss what color schemes/harmonies they used, emphasizing the reconstructed words and elements from the book that inspired them and reflecting on the additive process of collage.
Lesson Rationale:
The art element that will be taught will be based on how color schemes work and which colors can be harmonious together. For example, in Eric Carle represents a complimentary color scheme with his choice of green and red that he uses for the caterpillar. We will not cover all the existing color schemes, but focus on the more basic ones.
The art element that will be taught will be based on how color schemes work and which colors can be harmonious together. For example, in Eric Carle represents a complimentary color scheme with his choice of green and red that he uses for the caterpillar. We will not cover all the existing color schemes, but focus on the more basic ones.
Lesson Objectives:
- Students will construct a visual representation of a scene that comes from Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
- Students will draw out their picture on the colored construction paper, and cut and paste their forms to create their scene
- Students will integrate the idea of decoding words into how they will construct their own collage.
- With the key words they were given from their literacy plan (stomachache, salami, caterpillar, and plum) they can create a new sentence about the hungry caterpillar and represent it through collage
- With this idea of making new words, students will transfer this concept to understanding how pieces and parts is part of the art process of assembling a collage.
- With the color wheel as a reference, students will design their collage with the knowledge of how certain colors can harmonize together when assembling their pieces and parts.
- Students will select at least two color schemes to present in their collage and be able to identify the color scheme they chose.
Ohio Visual Art Standards:
- 2PE: Distinguish subject matter and artistic style of two or more visual artists
- 3PE: Compare the form, materials and techniques in selected works of art using descriptive language.
- 3PR: Create artworks based on imagination and observation of familiar objects and scenes
- 4PR: Demonstrate flexibility in their creative processes and use of art materials.
- 4RE: Share their personal interpretations of the meanings conveyed in various works of art.
Materials:
- Red(s), Orange(s), Yellow(s), Green(s), Blue(s), Purple(s), Magenta(s), Black, Brown and White colored construction paper. Sizes 8 x 10 at each work area.
- Colored construction pre-cut out shapes of circles, ovals, rectangles and thin lines that the students can use as tracers
- Pencils
- Erasers
- Ruler (to measure out the size of their shapes)
- Washable markers
- Kid’s size Scissors
- Glue sticks
- 14 x 17 inch poster board
- Wheel chart reference sheets
Lesson Vocabulary:
- Collage: The assemblage of pieces and parts of different materials that make up a work of art.
- Color: The way the eye perceives color through visible light.
- Additive: A process of adding material to a piece.
- Complementary Color Scheme: A color scheme using two colors that lay directly opposite to one another on the color wheel. Examples: Yellow and purple, red and green, and blue and orange.
- Analogous Color Scheme: Are colors that lay next to each other on a color wheel. Example: Red, Orange and Yellow or Green, Blue and Purple.
- Primary Color Scheme: A primary color scheme consists of red, blue, and yellow and form an equatorial triangle on the color wheel. Primary colors are the basis for creating other color schemes.
- Secondary Color Scheme: When two of the three primary colors are mixed together a secondary color is produced. The three possible combinations result in the secondary colors of orange, green, and violet.
- Monochromatic Color Scheme: A monochromatic color scheme is solely based on one color hue. A monochromatic color scheme can be one color, or an applied range of values based on one color, i.e., black and white can be used to darken and lighten the value of the color to create tints and shades.
Multicultural/Historical Exemplars:
Contemporary Artist Matt Rich
Known for collaging painted paper on canvas (for more information on Who Matt Rich is and his work refer to resources).
Contemporary Artist Matt Rich
Known for collaging painted paper on canvas (for more information on Who Matt Rich is and his work refer to resources).
Historical Examples:
Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso were very famous in the early 21st century for abstracting and fragmenting forms. By making their pieces nonrepresentational, images were to be depicted from multiple perspectives with sharp flat planes. It was actually Georges Braque who was the true founder for the development of collage. Hannah Hoch was also another famous artist in the early 20th century who has done collages.
Movements:
Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso were very famous in the early 21st century for abstracting and fragmenting forms. By making their pieces nonrepresentational, images were to be depicted from multiple perspectives with sharp flat planes. It was actually Georges Braque who was the true founder for the development of collage. Hannah Hoch was also another famous artist in the early 20th century who has done collages.
Movements:
- Analytical Cubism 1908-1911 pushing forms and analyzing
- Synthetic Cubism 1911-1914 moving further away from the natural world and synthesizing objects with space development of collages; breaking up the parts and putting them back together and showing it in different perspectives
Question Strategies for Images:
- Compare and contrast the idea of decoding words and assembling a collage? (Looking for specific approaches rather than it’s literary and visual differences).
- How can the process of decoding the words to make different spellings a similar process when making the parts of a collage?
- Why do certain color harmonies work and how can colored pieces and parts contribute to a collage?
Visual Culture Component:
The literacy lesson allows students to take words from the book to transform these words into new ones. Below are pictures Eric Carle's creative process when creating his pictures (All steps can be found on his official site linked under my resources down below). Also attached are examples of how Eric Carle's illustrations went viral in our pop culture today.
The literacy lesson allows students to take words from the book to transform these words into new ones. Below are pictures Eric Carle's creative process when creating his pictures (All steps can be found on his official site linked under my resources down below). Also attached are examples of how Eric Carle's illustrations went viral in our pop culture today.
Procedure:
Opening (1 min)
Opening (1 min)
- You will announce to the students that we are doing a visual component with the literacy lesson in the form of a collage.
- You will connect the concept of how the construction process of creating a collage is similar to how people can decode words and make new spellings. You'll explain how pieces and parts of an image that is assembled together works the same way that spelling does by taking letters and making it into one whole word.
- You will bring out the multicultural/historical examples. You will show the images on an overhead projector or smart board some famous works by artist in history like Picasso's Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910 and Georges Braque, Violin and Palette, 1909-1910.
- From these images discuss how these paintings evolved into the movement of cubism
- Define the cubist movement and discuss the fragmented pieces and parts with flat/sharp planes that contribute to the assembled look
- Share Hannah Hoch photomontage piece, "Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany," 1919-1920 and explain how it's a collage.
- Talk about Matt Rich and how he is a contemporary artist who demonstrates the idea of collaged elements in his works.
- After discussing what a collage is, you'll explain to them the visual element they will be learning when making the collage which is about color schemes and how they work together.
- With the class, you'll go over the basic color schemes you want them to know which will include: complementary, analogous, primary, secondary, and monochromatic.
- You'll state examples for each one and show the class where they are placed on the color wheel
- After discussing how collages work, now it is time to show them how to do the assignment with the incorporation of the literacy lesson.
- You will pull out your finished example and reiterate to the class that the inspiration will still be based on Eric Carle's book on The Very Hungry Caterpillar and that they aren't collaging another theme.
- You will explain how the words they made in their literacy lesson, will be used to make a full sentence with the inclusion of one or two words into their sentence. Then explain that based off the sentence they make, they will collage a scene that represents the sentence and it must be representative of the theme in the book.
- You will give a couple demonstrations on how to go about making the collage:
- You will show them in your example the words you made from the literacy lesson and how you made it into a full complete sentence. You will emphasize to the class how this is the first step before the construction part.
- You show them how you can draw out the image first on the colored construction paper and then cut out the shape
- You will also explain how the shape with the pencil marks, instead of spending the time to erase the marks, use that side as the side you will glue on to the paper.
- You will also offer how when drawing the shapes, make sure they are close to the next shape you draw and close tot he edge of the paper. Reiterate that if the shapes are drawn out all over the paper it can take up a lot of wasted space for other shapes to be created
- With colored markers you can show them how to add detail into their pieces that they want to collage and tell them how that can be one of the options.
- You will pass out the supplies and go around to each work area and help the students who need assistance.
- Help the students make their sentence if they are struggling with it, since this will be the basis or starting point for how their collage will turn out.
- You'll guide them through your demonstrations that you showed on how to construct the collage for those who need help
- If many students struggle with one task, don't be afraid to have the class pause from what they are doing and reteach the demonstration over again
- You will have everyone pause what they are doing and ask for some volunteers to share to the class the sentence they created and how they made a visual interpretation out of it with their collage
- You will spend the last couple of minutes with clean up making sure all the reference sheets are put back on the table and all the supplies are put in the designated areas and how all the scraps are thrown out or recycled.
Assessment Tool:
This rubric lays out all the criteria of how the teacher should assess the student with the following points:
This rubric lays out all the criteria of how the teacher should assess the student with the following points:
- Integration with the literacy lesson with the collage
- Showing the connection between the sentence they create with the scene they intepret through their visual element
- Overall construction of the collage. How do they assemble it all together?
- Does the student understand how color schemes work and how colors harmonize together to enhance a picture.
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Example Images of Completed Project/Activity:
Resources:
Mattrich.com
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwI-dada/dada1/v/hannah-h-ch-cut-with-the-kitchen-knife-1919-20
http://www.eric-carle.com/slideshow_collage.html
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theory-intro.htm
http://www.theinformedillustrator.com/2012/10/color-schemes-defined_16.html
Mattrich.com
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwI-dada/dada1/v/hannah-h-ch-cut-with-the-kitchen-knife-1919-20
http://www.eric-carle.com/slideshow_collage.html
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theory-intro.htm
http://www.theinformedillustrator.com/2012/10/color-schemes-defined_16.html
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