Lesson Plan

Lesson One: Drawing Animals using Chalk Pastels and Stencils 

 

For my lesson plan I am teaching the students to draw animals using pastels and stencils.

This project relates most closely to the Studio Habits of Mind: Express and Envision

 

Grade Level: Third Grade

 

Big Idea: Create a scene using animal shapes

 

Time Frame: 50 minutes

 

Mastery Objectives:

• Students will learn to cut shapes out of paper to make stencils

• Students will learn to apply pastel to paper using stencils 

 

National Visual Arts Standards

 

• Creating

  • Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

  • Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

  • Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

 

Essential Question:

 

• How can you use stencils to create negative space?

 

National Visual Arts Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools

 

• Grade Three Visual Arts: Visual Communication and Production 

  • 3.1       The student will identify innovative solutions used by artists to solve art-making problems.

  • 3.4       The student will use imaginative and expressive strategies to create works of art.

  • 3.6       The student will create works of art that communicate ideas, themes, and feelings.

 

Common Core Standards: College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing 

 

• CSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.L.1

  • Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

 

Materials:

 

• Chalk Pastels, Colored Paper, White Paper, Pre-Cut Stencils, Scissors, Handout

 

Warm-Up/Mini-Lesson:

 

Show students PowerPoint Presentation of artwork for this lesson

 

• Degas

• Matisse

• Banksy

 

Demonstrate use of materials

 

• Cutting the stencils into animal shapes to make stencils

• Apply pastel to paper using technique shown in mini-lesson

 

Guided Work:

            

• Pass out handouts where students write their favorite animals and why they chose them

• Pass out pastels, colored paper, white paper, pre-cut stencils, scissors

• Cut white paper into animal shapes

• Apply pastel using technique from mini-lesson

 

Closing/Sharing:

 

• Ask how did your art piece effectively use 7 elements of art?

  • Line

  • Color

  • Shape

  • Form

  • Value

  • Space

  • Texture

 

• Ask how did your art piece effectively use 7 principles of design?

  • Balance

  • Rhythm

  • Pattern

  • Emphasis

  • Contrast

  • Unity

  • Movement

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Assessment: Review art and ask: “What works? What didn’t work? Was there any unexpected outcome?”

 

Learning Objectives: Students will use pastel techniques to conceive and create animal shapes

 

Resources:

 

• Degas

• Matisse

• Banksy

 

LESSON PACING CHART

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Grade 3 (50-minute session)

OPENING - 5 minutes

MINI-LESSON - 10 minutes (including opening)

ACTIVE LEARNING - 25 minutes

CATCH - 5 minutes

CLEAN UP - 5 minutes 

REFLECTION - 10 minutes (including clean-up)