Prescribed Learning Outcomes
(Perceiving/Responding)
It is expected that students will:
- identify a variety of image sources, including feelings, imagination, memory, and observation
- suggest purposes for a variety of images
- identify differences between original artworks and reproductions
(Creating/Communicating)
It is expected that students will:
- use feelings, observation, memory, and imagination as sources for images
- make 2-D and 3-D images:
- using a variety of design strategies, including multiplication
- exploring a variety of media
- to communicate experiences, moods, and stories
- to illustrate and decorate
- that engage more than one of the senses
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Suggested Instructional Strategies
- Have students plan and create sock puppet characters, developing individual characteristics and features through the addition of hats, glasses, felt features, wool hair, jewels, and so on. Students work in small groups to present familiar or original stories using their puppets.
- Invite students to explore a variety of leaf images through crayon rubbings and tempera paint prints. Have students observe and discuss how the details of the leaves are highlighted by this process.
- Ask students to bring favourite stuffed animals from home. Set up still-life arrangements with the animals and have students observe and draw an animal image. Have students practise multiplication by drawing a second animal behind the first.
- Ask each student to create a simple image on a computer and alter it by using the copy and paste functions to create many images. Have students create new artwork with the multiplied images.
- To introduce awareness of the development of images for a particular purpose, display fine arts and advertising images of food and have students suggest purposes for which each image might have been created. Then invite them to make advertisements for their favourite meals by painting or drawing with felt pens on large-sized paper plates.
- Have students listen to music that represents a variety of moods and ask them to draw lines depicting each mood they hear. Have them join the lines together and paint the spaces between the lines with mixed colours to enhance the moods.
- On an art gallery field trip, challenge students to compare and contrast the original works with reproductions in the catalogue or on postcards. Help them create a show catalogue of their own work using photocopied reproductions.
Suggested Assessment Strategies
- Review and respond to the images that students collect and create. Look for evidence of growth in:
- imagination (e.g., images developed from stories or from listening to music)
- development of images that reflect different sensory experiences
- visual discoveries (evidence of looking closely)
- transformation of objects
- exploration of point of view
- use of different tools and materials
- expansion of ideas
- When students draw from observation (e.g., selected objects, animal images), look for evidence that they:
- sustain their focus on the images
- are making visual discoveries (noticing, discovering detail)
- compare details of their drawings to details in the original images
- are beginning to consider different points of view (e.g., inside and outside)
- When students have created coloured images in response to music, ask them to share their work with small groups. Look for evidence that they are using colour in deliberate ways to depict mood. Prompt them to comment on how the colours in one another's work show moods and feelings.
- Provide a model of an artist's statement for a catalogue. Ask students to make statements of their own to accompany the photocopied reproductions of their work in a show catalogue. For example:
- The materials I used to create this artwork were ------------.
- The artwork tells about ------------.
- I want people to feel ------------when they see my painting.
Recommended Learning Resources
Print Materials
- Activities for Creating Pictures and Poetry
- Art First Nations
- Art From Many Hands
- Art Image Preschool - Animals in the Wild
- Art Image Preschool - Children Together
- Art Image Preschool - Pets are Part of Our Lives
- Art Image Preschool - Portraits are Images of People
- Art Image Preschool - Shapes, Colors and Stories
- Art in the Making
- Art Key Stage 1
- Come Look With Me: Animals in Art
- Come Look With Me: Exploring Landscape Art With Children
- Experimenting with Art
- Focus Visual Education
- Hooray for Clay!
- Oxford Primary Art Series
- Primary Art Series
Video
- Animation for Kids
- Multi-Arts Resource Guide
Multimedia
