Your Name(s): Nicole Wallin and Emmanuel Hernandez

DAILY PLAN
Lesson Title: Creating Animals With Texture (2 of 2) Grade Level: 4

S & S Statements:
In this lesson, the students will take what they created last week – animals created with texture – and
use their observation skills to recreate their animals into drawings.
Alongside that, the students will also draw out the background environment
that fits their animal. This will introduce the students to using their
observation skills, as well as covering the concepts of foreground,
midground, and background.

Concepts and Skills

The concepts and skills being taught in this lesson include using observation to recreate an image, as
well as being able to layer objects with foreground, midground, and
background.

Academic Language:
observation, foreground, midground, background, composition

Purpose of Lesson:
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the students to using their observation skills to accurately
recreate an image while also putting it in an environment with a foreground, midground, and
background

Learning Objectives:

Technical: Given a presentation on drawing from observation, students will successfully include
foreground, midground and background in their final composition.

Conceptual: Given a presentation on observation, the students will fully retain the knowledge of a few
examples of famous artists that have used observational skills to create their works.

Assessment Criteria:
Successfully recreate the reference material from observation, as well as effectively create a
foreground, midground, and background to fit their animal.

Teaching Resources Needed to Support the Lesson:

(Books, examples, objects to show etc)
Powerpoint presentation, computer, examples, paper, crayons, demonstration area (table, chair).

Art Materials Necessary for the Lesson:

White piece of paper, pencil, crayons, reference material (artwork from previous lesson)
 Teacher Directed Activities
(What you will do)
Introduction:
The lesson will start out with a brief powerpoint
covering observational drawing and the concepts of
foreground, midground, and background. Within this
point, I will also show some examples of each
concept, so the students have a visual reference to
associate with the concepts. A slide with examples
of famous artists that have used their own
observational skills will be shown to help reinforce
the concept of observation and what it can achieve.
Development:
Afterwords, I will then give a short demonstration at
the back table on how to first sketch out where
everything will be, how to create an interesting
composition, and then how to apply the colors on
top. I will ask the students if they have any questions
or if they need anything elaborated on.
Once the demonstration is completed, I will hand out
a sheet of paper to the students, have them gather
their crayons, graphite pencils and reference
materials, and let them begin their work.
Student Activities
(What the students will do)
Introduction
Students will be sitting in their seats, paying
attention to the brief powerpoint being shown to
them. They will be engaged and ask questions
as we proceed.
Development
Once the demonstration begins, the students
will be stood around the table to watch, making
sure they each have a good view of what is
being demonstrated. They will ask questions
and be involved in the demonstration.
The students will begin gathering their supplies
once the demonstration is completed and begin
their work.
Conclusion
By the end of the class, the students should
have completed their sketches and begun
coloring in their projects. 5 minutes before the
end of class, students will begin to clean up.

Conclusion:
The students will be allowed to work up until the last
5 minutes of class. By this time, I expect everyone to
have at least begun coloring their works. I will have
them start picking up after themselves at this time.

Critical Comments and Reflections:

For this lesson, the students worked fairly well and half of them even finished inside class time, which
is the first time that has happened. I kept the powerpoint presentation short and attempted to do a
proper demonstration for the first time. The powerpoint went very well, but the demonstration was a
little too long as I kept getting distracted by the students’ suggestions and questions. Overall, however,
the students seemed to have a fun time and, for the most part, demonstrated the skills that were
aimed to be taught for this lesson. Classroom management still seems to be the hardest part for
myself, but I’m becoming more accustomed to it each time. The students stayed in their seats and
worked a majority of the time – sometimes they needed to be redirected back to their work – and
because of that, they appeared to have gotten the most work done in this class as they have so far.