Creative Process as a Lesson Planning Tool

Apply what you just learned about the creative process, and the activity and
discussion we just did. Pick a project you’d like your students to create and plan
what the steps in the creative process should look like to get the kids to
successfully create it. This is a formative assessment so this will allow me to see
what we still need to work on. No grades should be given during a formative
assessment.

What is the intended project supposed to look like? (Describe what it is and what kind of art
materials you’d need. What does the final product need to look like?)

The intended project is creating trees based off the 4 seasons. The materials needed are
construction paper, pencil, paint, white paper, glue stick, scissors.

Step 1: Imagine and Generate (What could you show the students to get them thinking about
the artwork? How will you introduce the project? What themes could be discussed?)
Before showing the students the artwork, I would ask them what the four different seasons
are. I would also ask them what is different during each season. We would discussion what
looks different and how the trees are different during each season.

Step 2: Plan, Prepare, Explore, and Focus (What exercises, techniques, or mediums could you
have the students practice with to get them ready for the project? Are you assigning any
planning time for sketching? If so what/how many?)

Something that I would have students practice before this project is tracing random items
since they will be tracing their hands. I would also have them practice cutting. I would do this
project towards the middle or end of the year so by that time they will have more experience
with cutting materials. I would assign around 10- 15 minutes to practice tracing and cutting.

Step 3: Develop and Make (What are you demonstrating, how long will the students have to
work on the piece, how might you guide them through the completion of the piece? What
other assistance might they need?)

First I would demonstrate tracing my hand, second I would demonstrate cutting out the hand,
then I would demonstrate gluing the hand on to the white piece of paper, then I would show
the students that they are using their fingers for the paint to create dots to represent the
leaves on the trees, I would tell students to kind of make lots of dots and they need to be
above and on the sides of the branches they should not go low because that is where the
stump of the tree is. I would guide them through this by showing my example to the whole
class and then I would have students do one step at a time, so every student is on the right
track. Then we would move on to the next step gradually.

Step 4: Evaluate and Present (How do you intend to evaluate the work? How do you intend to
exhibit the work? How will student know when they are done? What criteria will it need to
have?)
I intend to evaluate the work by observing and helping students are they are working. I would
also evaluate by having the students turn them in to me so I can look them over and get them
ready to be exhibited in the hallway for all the other classes to see. I may not have all 4 of
each students’ paintings in the hallway but I would put most of them. Students will know
when they are done when they have the hand glued to the white piece of paper and they
added enough dots to make the leaves on the tree.

Step 5: Reflect (What kinds of questions could you ask the students in order for them to reflect
on what they’ve learned? Will this be done in a large group, small groups, one-on-one, or as a
writing assignment? Why did you choose this kind of reflective activity?)

In a large group I would ask the students “now that we know that trees change during each
season what are some other things that might change?”. Students’ answers could be that it
rains in the summer but snows in the winter or that the temperature is warmer in the fall
than It is in the winter. This would just be another conversation about the seasons changing
so students can think of other ways the seasons change and they can see the beauty in
change.