This unit focuses on creating a positive learning environment by establishing classroom routines and procedures, building teacher- student rapport as students explore/manipulate materials through identity-based mini projects

MaFrameworks:
Creating:
Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Develop ideas that explore different art elements (e.g.,line, shape , color) using a wide variety of materials. (3-4.V.Cr.01)
Students will review the elements of art with various activities.
Presenting:
5) Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. (3-4.V.P.05)
Sketch notes : How to use and maintain a sketchbook for notes and brainstorming.

Responding:
7) Perceive and Analyze artistic work . Analyze how aesthetic elements ( color, shape, form, texture...) are used to demonstrate intent. (3-4.V.R.07)
(Review of the elements of art mini projects )

Connecting:
11) Relate artistic ideas and works to societal , cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding.
How is art different from everyday objects?
Why do we create?

Enduring Understanding:
Artists and Designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility, while developing and creating art works.

Essential Question:
What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?

Skills and Concepts:
Concepts
Students will understand the rules, norms and expectations of the art studio
Skills :
Students will learn how to create their own sketch journal.

-Tour of the Art Studio

-Norms and Routines

-Entering,  Engaging , Maintaining Safety and Exiting the Art Room

-Expectations: Studio Habits of Mind 

-Creation of Sketchbooks: Making and using a sketchbook.
Students will create and design cover art for a sketchbook that they will keep in the studio for use throughout the year.
*** Review of the Elements of Art: Students will be reviewing the Elements of Art each session and adding a reference page to their sketchbook for reinforcement through out the art year.
Review of the Principals of Art

-Community Building Project: 
Classmate interview and gift creation : Students will interview a partner about their goals and interests in life/art. Students will then create an art gift for their partner based on what they have learned from their interview. 

Unit Focus:

In this unit, students will continue to explore lines and shapes and how artists use these elements to create mood and make their artwork more interesting.

MaFrameworks:
Creating
2. Organize and develop artistic

ideas and work. ( Planning Placements of Elements for Final Artwork )
Presenting:
5. Develop and refine artistic techniques and

work for presentation. ( Collage )
Responding:
Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

Connecting:
Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.


Enduring

Artists and other presenters consider various techniques,

methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects

artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.

Essential Question/s:
How does collaboration expand the creative process?
( Students will work with pARTners during the creative process for)

 Skills and Concepts:
Students Will...

Lessons include:
What is Collage?
How can we rethink discarded materials for use in art making? 

How can we think about space? Composition and arranging objects on a page? 

How do the colors you choose change the way the art
 " feels?" 

Layering collaged materials with drawing, (paint sticks, pastels, markers & stamps) 

Teacher Guided Subject for Collage:Artist Based
Book : Henri's Scissors ( Matisse ) 
Student Choice Collage:Fall Theme/Thanksgiving? 

of artistic work.
Responding:
8. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Connecting:
10. Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal

experiences to make art.

Enduring Understanding:
 Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences..

Essential Question/s:
How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?

Skills and Concepts:
Visual literacy: Students will begin to understand how to express an idea or word as a visual image

Skills: students will learn about the medium of watercolor and some of the tools and techniques associated with it such as the specific brushes and paper. 

and work. Develop ideas that explore different art elements (e.g., line, shape , color) using a wide variety of materials. (3-4.v.Cr.01)
Presenting: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Refine specific a technique to produce a desired effect.  (3-4.V.P.05)
Responding: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Analyze how aesthetic elements ( e.g., color line, form , shape, texture) are used to demonstrate intent.
Connecting: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Distinguish one's own preferences in art from those of others. (3-4.V.Co.10)

Enduring Understanding:
Artists and Designers experiment with different forms, structures, materials, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question:
How do artists work?

Skills and Concepts: 
Students will learn how to produce multiple copies of an image through the process of printmaking. 
Students will become familiar with the tools of the printmaking process such as plates, matrixes, brayers, presses and ink/paint. 
Students will discover the works of artists who have worked and work presently in the medium of printmaking. 

Part 1: Students will be introduced to the amazing world of printmaking with the process of printing using Gelli Plates. 

Students will use techniques such as stamping, incising, and pressing materials into a gelli plate and transferring the image onto paper by hand pressing. 

Part 2: We will dive a little deeper with the process of incising into styrofoam plates. ( as shown above) 
Students will create a "snow scene" on their plates and transfer the image to print paper. 
They will then sign and number their prints 

Students will begin to learn how to use brayers, plates and "presses" 

Connecting:
10. Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal
experiences to make art.

Enduring Understanding/s:
 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills. that can be developed

Essential Question/s:
Studio Habits of Mind:
What factors prevent and discourage people to take creative risks.?
What conditions attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?

Skills and Concepts:
Students will begin to understand how construct a three dimensional form by manipulating paper using techniques such as  folding , bending and rolling . 
Students will begin to understand the concept of 3D vs 2D work. We will talk about the idea of art taking up space in the environment. ( growing up and out of the paper/surface area) 

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

3. Refine and complete artistic work.
- Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
Presenting:
5. Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Responding:
7. Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Connecting:
10. Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal

experiences to make art.
Enduring Understanding:
Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed

through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
Essential Question/s:
 How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art?

Skills/Concepts: 
Students will learn how to make a simple ceramic vessel using the pinch pot method of clay building.
Students will begin to understand the role of the ceramic vessel throughout history.

What is a kiln? 
Why is clay fired? 
What happens to clay when it is fired ? 
How did early cultures fire clay? 

Students will then learn how to create a "pinch pot" 
Students will learn to plan ahead for an embellished wire "handle" by including a pass through opening in their pots prior to firing. 

Pots will be painted once fired. 
"handles" with decorative beading will be added when paint has dried. 

work for presentation.
Responding:
7. Perceive and analyze artistic work
Connecting:
10. Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal

experiences to make art.

Enduring Understanding: 
Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.

Essential Question/s:
How does collaboration expand the creative process?
And...
What factors prevent and discourage people to take creative risks.?

Skills and Concepts:
Students will learn how to construct a handmade weaving loom from fired clay. 
Students will begin to understand the role that weaving has played in life across cultures as an art form and as an everyday "skill" . How do these two concepts differ, how are they the same?

Students will use underglazes or paint to decorate their looms. 

After fired and decorated, the looms will be woven with fibers and yarns of the students choice. 

We will talk about color palettes when choosing the  paint decoration and fibers. 

Cool paint vs warm fibers
Complimentary colors? 
How to choose a palette that is successful and interesting.

Texture
Texture can be incorporated into the clay loom , as well as considered when choosing the fibers that will be woven. 
( yarn , ribbon, fabric scraps...)