Kathryn Cassell

Who am I going to teach?:

2nd Grade 

 

What am I going to teach?:

The Color Wheel, The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai and foreground, middle and background

 

Why am I going to teach?:

Perception. The student develops and organizes ideas from the environment. The student is expected to identify art elements such as color, texture, form, line, and space and art principles such as emphasis, pattern, and rhythm. ( 117.8, 1 B)

 

Creative expression/performance. The student expresses ideas through original artworks, using a variety of media with appropriate skill. The student is expected to create effective compositions, using design elements and principles. (117.8, 2 B)

 

Historical/cultural heritage. The student demonstrates an understanding of art history and culture as records of human achievement. The student is expected to identify stories and constructions in a variety of artworks. (117.8, 3 A)

 

Response/evaluation. The student makes informed judgments about personal artworks and the artworks of others. The student is expected to define reasons for preferences in personal artworks (117.8, 4 A)

 

Materials:

     127 of all papers

     Black construction paper 18x12

     White construction paper

     18x 12 Ferris Wheel

     Tempera paint

     Mixing pans

     Tool buckets

     Orange topped glue

     Smaller Paintbrushes  

     Water buckets and water

 

Visuals:

   Color wheel  

    ROY G BIV Teacher examples of painted ferris wheel

    Completed project and project in stages

 

How am I going to teach it?

Day 1: Older kid video on Pinterest: Primary Colors

Prompt the students on past knowledge, have them answer a few questions about the color wheel:

 

What are the primary colors? red blue yellow

What are secondary colors? orange green purple

How do you make secondary colors? orange? green? purple?

Let them know that this is their “test” since they have studied this in Kinder and 1st. Name (first and last) and class code on the back of their ferris wheel paper

Remember to mix it in the mixing pan

Tell the students that they will be using paint to color in their ferris wheel color wheel.

This means that we have to go over brush rules:

Ask them if they remember the rules from last year. (recalling past information)

Not tapping the brush

Not leaving the brush in the water

Storing the brush laying flat not straight up

No scrubbing with the brushes, smooth

No walking with the brushes

Push sleeves up

Start to paint in the colors on their ferris wheel worksheet

Have them place it on the drying rack

 

Day 2: Look at the great wave, Ask the students what they see

Talk about the Artwork, tell a story about it, something interesting that would grab their attention.

The great wave off Kanagawa is a print created in 1830 by the artist Katsushika Hokusai. He was about 70 years old when he created this work. This is part of a series, it is called the Thirty-six views of Mount Fiji. He created them because widespread travel was just starting to become popular as well as he was obsessed with Mount Fiji. Why is this work famous? It's famous for being famous! In about 1859 the Japanese began to export their artworks to other places like the United States and Europe. Many artists celebrated this work once it was seen such as Van Gogh. It is one of the most famous works of art from Japan and Hokusai’s most famous work.

 

Ask the students if they remember what are the foreground, middle or background of a picture.

Ask them to point out the foreground, middle and background of the image.

Ask them what kind of colors are in the artwork? Warm? Cool?

What are warm colors and cool colors?

What is happening in the picture?

Do you see a pattern?

Are the boats going to stay up or flip over with the wave?

 

Introduce the lesson: have them place their name and class code on the back of their paper.

They will paint the foreground on the first third of their page, middle on the middle, and background on the top. Paint their artwork by using the tempera paint and larger flat brushes. They will paint the foreground in cool colors (blue, green and purple), the middle ground will be brown black and dark yellow or orange, and the background will be warm colors for a sunset or blue for sky. They will start with the background of their painting, then the mountains and then the ocean. The students will  work on and finish their painting. When complete they will place their work in the drying rack.

 

Day 3: The students will be told that they need to flip over their black paper and place their names and class code on the back of it. They will be required to have nine tiers on their completed artwork, three rips for each the middle, foreground and background. The students will finish their projects by starting at the top of their paper with the sky and then gluing that down on their paper. They will tear off a piece of their paper from the top and then glue it overlapping to the one they just glued down. They will continue until they finish gluing each piece of paper onto their black mount. They will place their work on the drying rack.

 

Did I teach it?

I will have teacher observation and informal conversations with the students to check for understanding and direction following. Work will be hung in the hall by the gallery team.

 

X- Test/quiz ferris wheel (All colors in correct places and last time to use the "baby" color wheel)

X -Rubric