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Rhythm and art: Rhythm collage

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2052/

A lesson plan for Grades 9–12 General Music/All Other High School Electives and Visual Arts Electives

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Appropriate grades
9–12
Subjects
arts (general, music), thinking skills (critical literacy, higher order thinking, visual literacy), education technology (integrating technology), teaching methods (discussions)
Provider
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students produce collages consisting of paper cut-outs, reflecting elements of rhythm of in music.

Students will:

  • understand, describe, and interpret non-verbal language (auditory and visual);
  • work in different media, such as drawing, collage (manipulative), and painting;
  • explore the relationship between elements and principles—specifically, line, shape, and color, and their maximum and minimum contrast;
  • observe and respond to the content in their work and in others' work; and
  • develop critical thinking skills (comparing, contrasting, and analyzing).

ARTSEDGE provides detailed instructions for completing the lesson, a supply list, suggestions for assessment and extension activities, and links to related web resources and an assessment rubric.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Music Education (2001)

Grades 9–12 — General Music/All Other High School Electives

  • Goal 8: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts.
    • Objective 8.01: Apply rules of standard written English to explain the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts areas (dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts) in different historical periods and cultures.
    • Objective 8.02: Identify and explain ways in which the concepts and skills of other content areas outside the arts are related to those of music.

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grades 9–12 — Visual Arts Electives

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
    • Objective 1.01: Plan and organize for creating art.
    • Objective 1.02: Develop strategies for imagining and implementing images.
    • Objective 1.03: Recognize in a world of imagination there is no right or wrong, but some solutions are better than others.
  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • 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: Recognize and apply the elements of art in an aesthetic composition.
  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.01: Demonstrate the use of life surroundings and personal experiences to express ideas and feelings visually.
    • Objective 4.04: Explore how artists develop personal imagery and style.
  • Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
    • Objective 6.03: Accept other's work and ideas as unique expression of themselves.
    • Objective 6.05: Critique artwork through the use of: proper vocabulary, art elements and design principles, meaning, feeling, mood and ideas, oral and written expression.
    • Objective 6.06: Understand there are varied responses to specific artworks.
  • Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
    • Objective 7.01: Identify connections, similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines.
    • Objective 7.02: Describe ways the art elements and design principles interrelate within all arts disciplines.