Grade 2 How We Express Ourselves - Central Idea: ​Artists interpret and respond to the world around them

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One Idea Many Ideas Connecting Ideas Going Further

Getting Started I have an idea about the topic I have many ideas about the topic ​I have ideas about the topic I have connected ideas and can look at them
I need help to get and I can make connections between them or think about them in a new way. I can
started innovate and create. I can use my knowledge
to take action

Getting Started → Investigating → Making Connections → Going Further →

Art conveys ❏ ​I need help ❏ Offer one idea​ to help define art ❏ Define ​and provide ❏ Establish ​how art can be a means ❏ Explain ​your perspective about an art
messages (mood, to get ❏ Identify​ one feeling you have in examples/non-examples of art of communicating and expressing piece and ​give reasons ​to support
feelings, started response to art ❏ Name ​ways people can express ideas and emotions your perspective
messages) ❏ Name​ one idea of a message themselves
created through art ❏ List ideas​ of messages created
I can... through art

Possible What is art? How can art communicate a message? What is your perspective on a piece of artwork
Questions to How do you feel in response to art? How/Why does art make you feel a certain and what makes you say that?
What do you think the message of this art piece is? way?
discuss...  Why do people express themselves through
art?

The choices ❏ I need help ❏ Name ​one choice an artist makes ❏ Name​ several choices an artist ❏ Explain the effect ​of a choice an ❏ Create​ my own artwork with a
artists make to to get when creating a piece makes when creating a piece artist makes through the message it message
convey messages started conveys to the audience ❏ Explain ​how the choices I have made
in my artwork help to get my message
I can... across to the audience

Possible What choices do artists make when creating art? How do the choices an artist makes connect How can I make effective choices in my own
Questions to with the message they are trying to convey? artwork to create a clear message/idea/feeling
to the audience?
discuss...
Stages of the ❏ ​I need help ❏ Describe ​one stage of the creative ❏ Describe​ multiple stages of the ❏ identify ​the stages of my own and ❏ Give recommendations ​through
creative process to get process creative process others’ creative processes feedback on an artists piece of work
started ❏ Explain​ an attitude required ❏ Explain​ many behaviours required ❏ Apply ​the stages of the creative ❏ Integrate​ the reflections of others into
throughout the creative process throughout the creative process??? process to design my own art my creative design
❏ Consider ​the advice and feedback of
I can... others as an essential part of the
creative process

Possible What are the stages of the creative process? Where am I at with my creative process? How can I improve my work based on my own
Questions to What does the creative process involve? (e.g. joining in, exploring, risk-taking, reflecting, reflections and the reflections of others?
listening to feedback)
discuss...

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