Adjective Monster
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3795/
A lesson plan for grades K–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Mathematics
In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore the connections between visual art and language arts, and how both are used to creatively tell stories and express emotions. Students read the book Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley. They are introduced to adjectives as descriptive words, and choose an adjective to describe their own monster. Students create a monster’s face, using some paper sculpture techniques, and learn about basic geometric shapes. The lesson includes links to a printable assessment rubric, a student activity sheet, and related weblinks.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.
Kindergarten
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will identify, describe, draw, and build basic geometric figures.
- Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw and name parallelograms, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons.
Kindergarten
- Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will explore the concepts of geometry.
- Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw, and name triangles, rectangles, and circles; identify, build, and name spheres and cubes.
Visual Arts Education (2001)
Grade 2
- Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
- Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional art media, techniques and processes that may include:
- Cut paper - tape
- Printmaking - styrofoam, water soluble printing ink
- Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional art media, techniques and processes that may include:
Kindergarten
- Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
- Objective 2.01: Become familiar with a limited number of basic art media, techniques and processes which may include:
- Drawing - crayons, oil pastels, non-toxic markers, brushes, computers, pencils, sidewalk chalk
- Cut paper - glue, scissors, folding, bending 3-D - clay, paper, found objects, including wood scraps
- Printmaking - stamps, gadgets, found objects, vegetables, monoprint
- Painting - tempera, watercolors, large brushes, sponges, finger paint
- Ceramics - pinch, coil, found stamps.
- Objective 2.01: Become familiar with a limited number of basic art media, techniques and processes which may include:
