Kindergarten and First Grade Art lesson (​Adapted​)

Title: ​Hearts In the Window Grades:Kindergarten & 1st grade

Date: April 13, 2020 Natalie
*Blue ​highlight​ indicates Online learning materials

Lesson Idea and How can we as young artists show others during the COVID-19 pandemic we are thinking about
Relevance:​ ​What are you them, care about our loved ones at home, and the community around our homes.
going to teach and why is this
lesson of importance to your
students? How is it relevant to
students of this age and
background?

Essential Understanding (s):​ ​What are the “big ideas”? What specific Essential Question (s):​ ​What provocative questions will foster
understandings about them are desired? inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning?

The main idea is to bring and show love into the community
around our homes, and inside our families at home during the
quarantine. Artists and designers practice fine motor skills
through the process of drawing and cutting out hearts, drawing
or writing important messages to loved ones, friends, or the
community.
Who did you choose to dedicate your heart in the window
towards?
How do artists show others they care about them?
How do artists use art to send a message, either using
writing or visuals?

Outcomes - Students will be able to...​What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? ...Art history and culture;
expressive features and characteristics of art; art materials, tools, and techniques? What should they eventually be able to do as a result of such knowledge and
skill? ...Compare and contrast art work; analyze sketches?

Condition…Students will be able to (measure)…criteria (assessment)

(below is adapted to online learning)

- After students look through examples that other students across the US have been doing with creating hearts they will
go through (with an adult*) how you can create two different hearts using two types of methods for cutting out hearts.
- During the creation process, and after the students have drawn out their heart shapes on the paper, they can proceed to
cut out the hearts, creating either one or two hearts. Allowing for them to make multiples for artistic choices later
during the decoration process.
- After students can start to design and decorate on top of their hearts. Thinking about the essential question posed for
them in the slideshow, “Who is this heart for the window for?”
- After decorating and designing their hearts, the students will be able to hang them either in the window of their
home/apartment or somewhere in the house so that people can see their hearts.

Student Reflective Activity​: ​Through what authentic performance Assessment Instrument (s):​ ​By what criteria will “performances of
task(s) will students demonstrate the desired understandings? How will understanding” be judged?
students reflect upon and self-assess their learning?
(Reflection activities adapted to Online learning)
- Students through feedback on ​SeeSaw​ are able to
submit images and videos of their projects. This
allows for some students to verbally explain what
they did, and reflect on the process of creating their
hearts for the window.
The main skill was practicing our motor skills, and cutting
paper, as well as the connection they can make to someone
and the process of making them a heart to show love/care.
Documentation on the ​SeeSaw​ will be how we as teachers
and students can create recordings and showcasing the above
understanding.

Pre-assessment​:​ ​How will you help the students know where the unit is going and what is expected? Help the teacher know where the students are
coming from (prior knowledge, interests)?

(Adapted for Online learning)

- During my time at the school during the two weeks, I was able to see the Kindergarten and First grade ability at
cutting paper.
- A all school pre-assessment was done at the start of online learning, where we evaluated what materials the students
may or may not have at home, this was also used to determine who could do the project.

Motivation:​ ​How will you hook all students and hold their interest? Ideation:​ ​How will you equip students, help them experience the key
ideas, and explore the issues to generate ideas for their art work?

Creating something to be hung up in the window, or on the
refrigerator in the home.
Making an art project related to the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic, that brings kids together across the US.
(Adapted for Online learning)
Providing a step by step powerpoint in the SeeSaw program
for schools. While also providing examples of what other
students across the US have done in the windows creating
multiple hearts across the window, either with messages or
decorations on them.

Instruction:​ ​How is the lesson organized to maximize initial and sustained engagement as well as effective learning? Provide opportunities to rethink and
revise their understandings and work? Allow students to evaluate their work and its implications? Include literacy and numeracy?

(students have between 4/13-4/19 of 2020 to complete this project @ own pace)
Introduction slide:​ ​Introduce the projects, what it is about and showing the students image examples of other students that
have done these projects.

How to Slide:​ ​Step by step with images of me doing the process of folding the paper, drawing out the heart shape, and
cutting along the lines slowly to get a nice clean heart shape.

Motivation:​Creating something to be hung up in the window, or on the refrigerator in the home.

Making an art project related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, that brings kids together across the US.

Ideation: ​*optional ideation

Students can draw or create beforehand creating a sketch of what they want the heart to look like, preparing the materials and
testing them out before using them on their final heart design that goes in the window.
*students can also practice writing what they want on the heart beforehand on practice bold drawing paper.

Studio Instruction:
N/A (See How to Slide)

Student Reflective Activity: ​Students through feedback on ​SeeSaw​ are able to submit images and videos of their projects.
This allows for some students to verbally explain what they did, and reflect on the process of creating their hearts for the
window.

Materials and Resources:​ ​What is needed to complete the learning plan? ​List materials and resources in a bulleted format.

Paper (any type thats available)

Scissors
Pencil or marker
*any other drawing/decoration materials the students might have @ home

Preparation and Safety: ​What do you need to prepare for this experience? What safety issues need to be addressed? ​List steps of preparation and
safety in a bulleted format.

- Creating the slideshow presentation for the students

- Uploading/editing/ and recording reading the presentation on SeeSaw of the students
- Only sending this to both Kindergarten, and First grade classes.

Accommodations:​ ​How is the lesson tailored (personalized) to the different needs, interests, and abilities of learners? ...​Access​ (Resources and/or
Process) and ​Expression​ (Products and/or Performance)?

Creating a project that students with minimal materials at home can do.
- students that might not have scissors at home can draw the hearts on a piece of paper, drawing out and writing the
dedication or whatever they created the heart for, and taping the paper somewhere visible.