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Lesson Title: Neighborhood Bugs

Big Idea and Sub-theme: Community/ Environment Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Medium or Form: Fibers (stitchery)

Challenge: Stitch a picture of a bug in its environment.

Objectives:
Make a bug in its environment using multiple stitches (couching, running, and running
stitch variations).
Identify, create and extend a repeating and growing pattern.
Distinguish symmetry from asymmetry.
Use a variety of lines - zigzag, dotted, wavy, and spiral lines

Materials with dimensions:

9 x 12 pieces of white paper, crayon/chalk
10 x 10 pieces of burlap
Colored yarn, birdies, plastic jumbo eye needles

Grade Level Art Vocabulary (4-10)

Textile, stitchery, running stitch, threaded
running stitch, double threaded running
stitch, couch stitch, birdie, symmetry, and
asymmetrical.

Introduce / Engage:
Session 1: Bugs on the complexity scale, PPT, and Challenge
Session 2: Demonstrations (threading, knotting), birdie story.
Session 3: Who can identify all the stitches on the exemplar?
Session 4: Textiles and stitchery as decorative art. See-Think-Wonder activity.

Artists and Art History Connections:
Stick Insects, matchsticks, 2010,
Kyle Bean
Textile Insects, textiles/embroidery,
2014, Yumi Okita
Vintage Spider, embroidery, unknown
Sample:
Closure/Reflection:
Session 1: Group exemplar reflection.
Session 2: Polling using thumps up or
down.
Session 3: Exit Ticket: 3-2-1.
Session 4: Gallery Walk and Share.