Subject/Grade: Art/ 2/3 Lesson/Date: December 1, 2020

Time: 1 hour

Stage 1: Desired Results

Lesson In this lesson students will create Christmas cards by using a marbling method to create a
Overview: unique pattern on cardstock paper. This lesson will help students deepen their understanding of
colours mixing, as well as the ways in which colour can be transferred onto paper.
GOs: Media and Techniques: Students will use media and techniques, with an emphasis on mixing
media and perfecting techniques in drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, fabric arts,
photography and technographic arts.

SOs: Students will:

Use Print Making
 Further explore print-making materials and their uses and effects.
 Apply print-making techniques to compositions.
Learning Students will:
Objectives  Explore mixing colours by mixing food colouring in the shaving cream mixture
 Demonstrate an understanding of how print making works based on the transfer of colours
from their trays to their cardstock

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Formative N/A Summative N/A
Assessment Assessment

Stage 3: Learning Experience

Prior to  Organize trays onto desks Resources:  Cardstock
Lesson:  Have an area at the teacher’s  Shaving Cream
desk to perform the example  Food colouring
 Each student will need a piece  Popsicle Sticks
of cardstock, a mini popsicle 
stick and a larger popsicle
stick
 Have a digital example as well
Time: Content/Description Differentiation/
Assessments:
Introduction:
2:30- Review of Previous Concepts/New Learning:
2:35  Discuss how we’re going to make Christmas cards for our families
 Explain that do to this we’re going to use a very cool printing technique
but that to get through the instructions as quick as possible every needs
to give their full attention.
 Go over a couple of rules and expectations. We’re working with messy
materials today and the last thing we want is to make the classroom a
disaster.
2:35- Transition
2:37
Body:
2:37- Direct Instruction: Explaining the Necessary Steps and Showing Teacher
2:45 Examples
 Begin by showing media examples on the smartboard of what we’re
Subject/Grade: Art/ 2/3 Lesson/Date: December 1, 2020
Time: 1 hour
going to be doing today.
 Move over to the teacher’s desk and have students gather
 Demonstrate to students the process, step by step.
1) A teacher will come around and put shaving cream into your
trays (emphasize that it is really important not to touch it
because it could ruin the marbling process)
2) Once you have shaving cream in your tray another teacher will
come around and ask what colours you’d like, you don’t need a
lot of the food colouring only a couple of drops. A max of 3
colours because otherwise it will start to look brown.
3) Once the food colouring has been dropped in, use your smaller
popsicle stick to swirl around the food colouring
4) Once you have a pattern you like, you are going to take your
card stock and press it onto the shaving cream. Press enough so
that it’s covered by the shaving cream but not too much that
you’ll squish some stuff out the sides
5) Leave your cardstock there for 30 seconds
6) Remove your cardstock and use your thick popsicle stick to
scrap off the shaving cream
7) Find somewhere safe to put your card
 Explain that after students are finished, they can help others who may
need it and begin to clean the classroom.
2:45- Transition: Have students return to their desks and show that they are ready to
2:47 start. Remind students that the shaving cream stays in the tray and that’s it.
2:47- Learning Activity:
3:18  Have one teacher move around from student to student spraying out the
shaving foam and the other follow behind with the food colouring
 Ensure that students are mixing their food colouring once they get it,
they can start before others have their own.
 Have students create the art, and supervise/assist
 Have students who are finished early help clean up or help others.
3:18- Transition: Ensure that everyone is finished, assign helpers to people who
3:20 aren’t
Consolidation:
3:20- Review of Key Concepts/Point to Next Class:
3:30  Everyone needs to help clean
 Especially with the tables because the shaving cream can be messy and
can get really sticky
 Ensure that everyone has placed their art somewhere safe to dry
Stage 4: Reflection
1. How the students responded to the lesson as planned and taught:
2. Specific strengths of the lesson plan and delivery:
3. Specific weaknesses in the lesson plan and delivery:
4. What must be addressed to improve this plan?
5. How I have grown from this teaching experience: