Content Focus: Social emotional learning, self-awareness

Language Focus: listening, writing

Vocabulary Focus: emotions

Standards:

• WI.SELC Self-Awareness.6th-8th: Learners will be able to recognize and label a variety of complex graded emotions in self and others.
• AD.CR.1.m (CREATE): Students will generate, develop, and refine artistic work by exploring how colors and lines convey emotions.

 

Arts Integration:Students will analyze and depict their emotions through abstract art while learning to understand emotional expression in themselves and others.

Lesson Objectives: 

• Social Emotional Learning: Students will identify and express emotions using creative outlets.
• Art: Students will explore how colors and lines convey feelings in visual art.
• Integration: Students will analyze and depict their emotions through abstract art while learning to understand emotional expression in themselves and others.

 

Activities: 

• Explore the element of line in art and the different variations of lines in art.
• Explore emotions can be represented through different lines and colors.
• Observe and evaluate where you see color, line, and emotion in different art pieces.
• Connect emotion to art by creating a piece of art that depicts one or more emotions.
• Reflection and Share.

Engagement/Introduction: 

• Introduce the learning objectives and standards.
• Learn about what Line is in art.
• Explore how colors represent emotions.
• Explore how variations in lines can represent emotions.
• Explore artwork that conveys emotion through lines and color.
• Create your own piece of abstract art that conveys emotion through color and line.
• Reflect and discuss as a group.

 

Assessment Procedure: The assessment is the final culminating piece of art. Was the student able to use color and line to convey their emotions?

Materials: Paper, Markers

Supporting Documents: Presentation

Contact: Barbie Deacy (barbara.deacy@oshkosh.k12.wi.us)