Lesson Plans

Drawing from observation

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2021/

A lesson plan for Grades 3–4 Visual Arts Education

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

In this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, through observation-drawing, students create images of their running shoes. Students focus on the elements of line, tone, shape, texture, and color as well as on the principles of repetition, movement, and balance. This lesson is part of a curriculum unit titled “Multimedia...Collage.”

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 3

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
    • Objective 2.01: Expands control and manipulation of the media and tools which may include the following:
      • Photography - sun prints
      • Drawing - chalk, fine and broad markers, colored pencils, creates a variety of lines with tip, point and side, computer and software.
      • Cut paper - papers, found objects, fibers, glue, sharp-edged scissors, curling, scoring and stapling, cutting a variety of single and multiple shapes.
      • 3-D - paper mache, small hand tools.
      • Printmaking - cardboard
      • Painting - liquid acrylics, large and small brushes, computer and software.
      • Ceramic - coil construction, compound pinch and slab, addition, smoothing, self-created stamps.
      • Fibers - Knotting, small hand looms for fibers.
    • Objective 2.02: Explore unique properties and potential of materials.
    • Objective 2.03: Demonstrate increased fine motor skills.
    • Objective 2.04: Develop familiarity with specific media and processes.
    • Objective 2.05: Interprets actual textures in a variety of media.

Grade 4

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
    • Objective 1.02: Create work which approaches a higher level of realism.
  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
    • Objective 2.02: Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include:
      • Fibers - stitchery, a variety of fiber weaving techniques, felting and quilting
      • Cut paper - complex symmetrical folding and cutting;
      • Sculpture - experiments with varied tools including small hand tools.
    • Objective 2.03: Increase skills with familiar materials.
  • Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
    • Objective 3.01: Mix tints, shades and tones.
    • Objective 3.03: Compare relative positions of objects in space through color intensity and value.