Content Focus: Science and Visual Art (5th grade lesson), ELA and Visual Arts (1st grade lesson)

Language Focus: reading and writing

Vocabulary Focus: collage, complementary colors (1st grade), unique features (1st grade), food chain (5th grade)

Standards:

• 5th Grade Food Chain
  • Art Standards
    • Creating: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work – VA:Cr1.1.5a: ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.
    • Responding: Perceive and analyze artistic work – VA:Re.7.1.5a: Compare one’s own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.
• 1st Grade Wit and Wisdom (ELA) Creature Features
  • Art Standards
    • Creating: Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work – VA:Cr2.1.1a: Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
    • Connecting: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding – VA:Cn11.1.1a: Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

Arts Integration: collage and complementary colors

Lesson Objectives: 

• 5th Grade: To create an accurate food chain in a creative way.
• 1st Grade: To practice identifying complementary colors, to create a piece of art in the style of Henri Matisse, and to write about the unique features of the animal created in support of Wit and Wisdom (ELA curriculum) module.

Activities: See slide deck for process photos and video.

Engagement/Introduction: Students begin with their homeroom teacher in science or ELA respectively with some background knowledge. The collage connection comes in to as an evolving objective after the unit has already begun.

Assessment Procedure: Projects are checked for accuracy of food chain (5th grade) or use of complementary colors (1st grade). Descriptions and planning documents are checked for use of academic vocabulary.

Materials: construction paper, glue, preplanning document
(see lesson plan for full supply list)

Supporting Documents: Lesson Plan

Contact: Sarah Phelps (phelpssarah@aasd.k12.wi.us)