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Content Focus: Visual arts

Language Focus: Speaking and Listening

Vocabulary Focus: Native Americans Dwellings, Two-dimensional representation, Three-dimensional figures

Standards:

  • SS.HIS3.3: Connect past events, people, and ideas to the present, use different perspectives to draw conclusions, and suggest current implications.
  • SS.GEO5.3: Evaluate the relationship between humans and the environment.
  • AD.R.3.1.i: Describe: Describe details, subject matter, and the context of an artwork

 

Arts Integration: Students create 2D and 3D art representations to express their understanding of Native American dwellings.

Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to describe the different types of Native American dwellings, specifically igloos, and explain how resources from the environment were used to build them.

Activities:

  • Guided Practice: Show examples of materials from the environment and ask students how they could be used to build a dwelling. Scaffold questioning from identifying resources to explaining how they could be utilized in construction.
  • Independent Practice: Students will create an artwork of a Native American igloo dwelling, showcasing the resources used in its construction. Provide students with a variety of art materials to represent 2D and 3D art representations for igloo dwellings.

 

Engagement/Introduction: Show images of different Native American dwellings and ask students what they notice about them. Discuss the importance of homes and how they are built using materials from the environment. Then introduce Native American dwellings, focusing on igloos and their construction. Have students discuss how igloos were built using snow and ice, and how this relates to using resources from the environment.

Assessment Procedure: Have students share their artworks and discuss key points about Native American dwellings and their relationship to the environment. Have students discuss their interruptions of two and three dimensional representations and how they differ and their advantages and disadvantages as an art medium.

Materials: Black construction paper, Chalk sticks (various colors), Pieces of paper to rip to create an edge, sponge (for sponge painting), white paint

Contact: Bonnie Smith, Ashley Molder