Art Integration Lesson Plan Template 1

Art Integration Lesson Plan Template

LTC 4240: Art for Children Lesson Title & Big Idea*: War Lesson Overview/Summary*: We will be looking at WWI and the artist Kurt Schwitters. Grade Level*: 5th Class Periods Required: (please circle) 1 2 3

Key Concepts (3-4): Essential Questions (3-4)*: Being able to recognize emotions, and being able to express that through What are sacrifices made during this war? Were they only by soldiers? collage. What were the cause/effect of war? Learning concepts and events of WWII. Seeing how that is portrayed through Where is war fought? this artist. How does war change lives of everyone? Lesson Objectives: (Excellent resource at http://www.teachervision.fen.com/curriculum-planning/new-teacher/48345.html?for_printing=1&detoured=1): Students will learn the major events of WWII. Students will create a collage expressing an emotion of their choice. Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) (3-4) (http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/) Identify & define common vocabulary that connect the art form with the Strand II 1B-Identify and use symbolic shapes other identified content areas: Strand II 2A-Identify and use asymmetrical (informal) balance Collage: artwork is made from assembling different forms, thus creating a Strand III 2A-Identify the type of artwork new whole. Asymmetrical Balance: when elements are placed unevenly in a piece, but work together to produce harmony overall. Content Areas Integrated*: Lesson Activities & Procedure(s) (please be very specific): 1. Visual Art (Inspiration Artist: Kurt Schwitters) (for the literacy integration of this unit): 2. Literacy 1.Find a memoir for the students to read, from a Germans point of view. 3. Social Studies 2. Have students read and reflection on the reading. (for the Social Studies integration of this unit): 1. Learn the history, cause and effect of WWII. 2. Reflect on important characteristics of cause and effect. (for the Art integration section of this Unit) 1. After the class participates in a VTS of the chosen piece by the inspired artist, the students will be invited to create a collage of their own. 2. I will demonstrate what is expected by showing my example of my own

Art Integration Lesson Plan Template 2 collage, and by starting to create a new one for them to see the process. 3. Students will then have time to gather pictures or texts that convey the emotion they have chosen to represent. They will trim them to fit on the given piece of paper. 4. Students will place them on the paper (without glue) to be able to position the pieces and move them around if needed. After I have discussed their piece with them, the students will be able to finalize. I will take a Polaroid shot of their unglued piece so that they can recreate it when gluing down their pieces. 5.Students will glue down the items that they have chosen for their piece. The students will then have the option to add other mediums (paints, crayons, markers, etc.) to their pieces until they feel that their piece is done. 6. Once each student is able to complete their piece, each student will leave it at their desk place and get the proper amount of critique tokens. They will then go around the room and vote for the one they see fits the tokens the best. They can reflect on their peers pieces and see how their peers see their piece. Closure (Reflecting Anticipatory Set): The token response critique.

Anticipatory Set (Gaining Attention)*: VTS on a piece by Kurt. Try to have students express the feelings that may have inspired it.

Formative Assessment strategy: Summative Assessment strategy*: Student understands the concepts when discussing their vision of their Students will create a collage of the emotions that they may be feeling that collage. day, or related to the topic, or a feeling from the past.

What student prior knowledge will this lesson require/draw upon? The students will need to understand what war is, and know that WWII happened in the past around the 1940s. They will need to know how to paste How will you engage students in imagining, exploring, and/or experimenting in this lesson? I want the students to pick any emotion they want to portray in their collage. It can be related to war, or it can be what they are feeling that day, or something that they may have felt last week. How will this lesson allow for/encourage students to solve problems in divergent ways? This lesson will help students see the war from a different point of view, through the eyes of a German man.

Art Integration Lesson Plan Template 3 How will you engage students in routinely reflecting on their learning? Have them write reflections over the material that is used. How will you adapt the various aspects of the lesson to differently-abeled students? I can find alternative reading based on the students reading levels, still have them over the same topic. Have the students reflect on their books and then share with the class. Then the class can compare and contrast the different readings. What opportunities/activities will students be given to revise and improve their understandings and their work? I will want to talk through the pieces of the students work, and see what direction they are headed in, and maybe talk through the process if they are needing more help to get started or change their idea. What opportunities/activities will you provide for students to share their learning in this lesson? Through reflections and class discussion and art critique token activity. Lesson Resources/References (please be very specific by providing links, authors, titles, etc.):

* Include this information during the 5-minute class Popplet presentation. References Silverstein, L. B. & Layne, S. (n.d.). Defining arts integration. Retrieved from http://www.americansforthearts.org/networks/arts_education/publications/special_publications/Defining%20Arts%20Integration.pdf